My friends - Last month, I had committed to giving a report to the JP List, and the county lists which I host, concerning the 1920's era county maps which I have had in storage, after such time as I was able to inventory them to see exactly what was present in the collection. I have now completed the inventory. For the JP region, I have maps in the 1921-1929 period for Ballard, Carlisle, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and McCracken counties - that is, all eight counties comprising the Jackson Purchase region. I also found that I have other maps for the same period covering Trigg, Caldwell, Lyon, Livingston, Warren, Hopkins, Crittenden, Christian, Todd and Logan counties - which are most of the counties in the western part of Kentucky, although these latter ones do not fall into the JP region. My thought at this point is to create a web site showing each of the available maps and their general contents and provide ordering information in that fashion. Some of the maps are in a fragile condition and care will have to be taken when duplicating masters are created. I might consider putting a PayPal option on the web site if there is any interest in using that route to speed up the process. It seems to have become a very popular utility. I will supply county libraries a gratis copy of their county map upon request. Over the next week or so, I will begin having duplicating masters made of the those maps for which one has not yet been produced. Those of you who have an interest in one or more of these maps can drop me a note off-list, so that I can better determine how many actual copies may be needed. Unless problems occur in creating duplicating masters from those originals which are fragile, the costs should remain constant with what we have been seeing - $12.00 for a single map, $21.00 for two, $30.00 for three, etc.(i.e., $9.00 for each map beyond the first). Some postage costs can be saved by sending multiple copies in a single mailing tube. I probably should say again that I am not attempting to generate any profit on these maps, but I do try to cover my costs in creating the masters, duplicating the maps on archival paper and postage and mailing tubes. I've been asked numerous times why these maps cannot be placed online. The primary difficulty is their size. Most of them range in size from 2 feet by 2 feet up to 3 feet by 3 feet. A special plotting scanner would be necessary to create a digital image of each map, and each image would be huge and generally not very workable for us genealogists, especially if one wanted to print the image. It would probably require 15 or 20 "pieces" that would have to be printed and then taped together in some fashion. Reducing the size of the original map before creating a digital image is not really an option because of the loss of detail and the inability to read the place names. And I think, too, that most of us genealogists like to use the full size maps. I much prefer them myself. That is the latest on the map situation for now, and I will continue to update the lists as I begin to get the web site up and items listed. -B ====================================================================