Hello Lincoln County researchers.... I just sent the following message out to the Allen County KS list as they'd been discussing the online version of the 1883 book by Wm Cutler, A HISTORY OF KANSAS located on the University of Kansas' Kansas Collection website. There is a search engine for the material in the Kansas Collection and I thought I'd pass this info onto you all as well... just in case you weren't familiar with it. Bill Sowers - ------------------------------------- Hello Allen County researchers.... One more important thing about the Cutler History of Kansas and other books/articles in KU's Kansas Collection online. There is a search engine for this material. If you'll go to: http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/index.html Scroll down a bit from the top and there is a box with a message above it saying "Search KanColl". You can put in a word or series of words for a search. Remember that if you put in one word like "Allen" or "Jones" you're gonna get a heck of a lot of stuff! Try to be more specific. If you use the word, and, between the words in your search the search engine will look for pages with all those words in it. I tried the following search: allen and county and johnson I brought up 400 pages! hmmmmm.... so I narrowed the search a bit more: allen and county and johnson and iola 35 pages... a bit easier to navigate! Also note that below the search engine box on the above page is an option to do an "advanced search." This should make narrowing things even easier. ONE MORE THING!!! (hope you're not tired of me yet!) The KanColl not only includes the Cutler History of Kansas and many other Kansas books/articles.... it also includes the Cutler History of NEBRASKA. So don't be suprised if you come up with pages from that book too. Hope this is of some help to you all in your research. Bill 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/