Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, one of the best read books ever written was from Montgomery County, Indiana There is a good website for his study which gives some info. on him. Who's doing this compilation anyway? What a great idea :) http://www.ben-hur.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael A. Pierce" <mpierce@sssnet.com> To: <INGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: [INGEN] Indiana > Carole Lombard & Hoagy Carmichael were also from indiana. If any one > wants to see a great page about Indiana try this one. It is from Ann > McRoden > Mensch. She is also a Professional Historical Genealogist, researching > at the > Alla County Library. A lot of Indiana info. > > http://home.att.net/~Local_History/IN_HistoryCAT.htm > > > -- > Mike Pierce, > > Genealogy Webmaster for Pike & Dubois Counties, In. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpike/Pikegen.htm > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~indubois/dubgen.htm > > > > ______________________________________ > Scanned and protected by sssnet.com > http://www.sssnet.com > > > ==== INGEN Mailing List ==== > WORLDCONNECT PROJECT > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > Upload your GEDCOM today! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

So far I don't know of anyone doing this compilation -- I just thought that it would be good idea as we browse our counties seeking our ancestors that we might like to know the counties these persons came from and also just for Indiana Pride to know who was important in our state that we support. Of course if someone wanted to do this possibly the Indiana Historical Society or State of Indiana or even our own Indiana GenWebProject might like to do something like this and have a webpage for people to see.... or even just list for them to know when they go to a county who might be in that county they would like to look up, etc.... of course if you find someone of importance that ends up in your family line -- that is always nice addition to any family history book.... \\\\\thanks to everyone who has sent in some info///// Judy M. At 08:39 PM 2/24/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, one of the best read books ever written was >from Montgomery County, Indiana > >There is a good website for his study which gives some info. on him. Who's >doing this compilation anyway? What a great idea :) > >http://www.ben-hur.com/