Hello Lincoln County researchers Diana and I just returned from a weekend alone at a bed and breakfast northeast of Topeka... and discovered that the Lincoln County list has been busy! We're glad that several of you were able to make it to Lincoln for the Old Settlers' Day celebration. We were lucky enough to have lunch with Tracee while she was on her way out to Lincoln. Believe me, she's as neat in person as she is on the Web! Regarding the land records... Diana and I have been talking about taking on some projects this summer. I think we'll start going through old Lincoln COunty newspapers and pulling the land applications out and putting them on a separate page on the Lincoln County site. As Wilda stated they are pretty short notices. They do give the application number and the office where the application was filed. This might help in trying to track down the original records. They also list witnesses. Each application appears in several weeks worth of papers as well. What we're thinking of doing is arranging them alphabetically by surname of the applicant, rather than chronologically. If anyone would rather see them chronologically arranged let us know. It'll be a while before we set this up but we're ready to do something new and this looks like a good project. Clarence was nice enough to send us some articles recently. We haven't forgotten them! We hope to get them up this week. One more thing. We will only mention this this one time on this list and we ask that if anyone wants to reply that they do it to us directly and not to the list. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who prayed, wrote us, sent cards, flowers, etc. after our 7-year old daughter, Rachel, died from complications due to a nine month battle with leukemia (AML) in mid May. We have made so many friends the last ten months and among them are a very special group, most of whom we've never met face to face. Throughout her illness Rachel received cards, small gifts and messages from people we've met on the Internet. There's a lot of talk about the "evils" of the Internet. We have been grateful witnesses to the other side of the coin... especially here on Lincoln County KSGenWeb. Thank you. Bill and Diana Sowers Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com- check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton County Kansas ALHN web page at: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/