Fellow researchers, Sorry to keep filling your e-mail boxes with "Perrin" messages but I wanted to share a few more thoughts with you. Our project to bring William Perrin's "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties" back into publication is a once-in-a-generation event. The last time Perrin's work was in circulation was 1979. The 1979 version, edited by the Rev. Emmett Lucas, is what is being reprinted this time around. There have been attempts to reprint the book since then but without success. This work is true to the original 1882 book except that it is reduced in size and it includes a thorough all-name surname index. This time around it looks like we will succeed in bringing this valuable work back into publication. That's the good news. The bad news is that I could only afford to purchase a very limited number of books. Once these books are gone, I doubt if we will see a reprinting any time in the forseeable future. It will probably be another twenty years before a new generation of researchers come along who will band together as we have to make this dream a reality. I say all this to encourage anyone who may be putting off purchasing this book to reconsider. I will have a few books in stock after the initial goal of 100 orders is met. However, once the stockpile is gone, I will not order any more. Again, I say a special "THANK YOU" to all who have rallied around this project to make it a success (hopefully!). Bob Francis Perrin Book Project Web Page: http://www.shawhan.com/book.html -- Bob Francis (1920A Butner St., Ft. Eustis, VA, 23604) Listowner for the SHAWHAN, McCUNE, FLEMING, TROWER, HINKSON, RUDDLESFORT, EWALT and RAVENSCRAFT Discussion Groups. MY HOMEPAGE: http://www.shawhan.com/ ARCHIVES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl BOURBON CO., KY. PAGE: http://www.pastracks.com/states/kentucky/bourbon/ ROOTSWEB: http://www.rootsweb.com/