My friends - For those who have been following the indexing of the Beasley Monument Company of Clifton, TN, and then Paducah, Kentucky, Part 7 is now ready for distribution. As a result, it has already been sent to those who are on the private list to automatically receive it. I have tried another approach to get around the AOL problems which were preventing AOL users from receiving their messages as they came out. Hopefully, that was successful. I think I should point out that if you received Part 7 yesterday, there is no need for any action on your part. The messages, such as this one, are being sent to the associated regional and county mail lists for the benefit of new subscribers who may not be familiar with the project, and want to be added to the private list(which is not a RootsWeb listserve - it is just a private collection of address - now numbering over 400 - who wish to receive the continuing segments of this indexing projects as it goes forward - all segments will be combined into a single index at the end of the project, which will encompass over 4000 names - these addresses are not in an address book within my e-mail program, so there is no danger of someone hacking into them from that approach). I have also received a number of messages from folks who say they see the list message, but have not received anything. But when I look at my inbox messages for some weeks past, I find no message from the parties asking to be placed on the "Beasley List", as we can call it. So, I *do* need to receive a request from those interested in receiving this material, and the request should be made using *private e-mail*, and not sent through the Lists. We have now completed about 2200 indexed names, with probably about 2000 more to go. We are making progress, albeit slowly, due to the need to be extraordinarily careful with these old records, especially those which were singed in the 1930's fire. We have found an order for a marker for a Revolutionary War soldier, which will have the earliest birth year yet encountered - it appears to be 1754, when examined with a loupe, but, unfortunately, this order was apparently allowed to become damp(not wet, but damp) at some point(perhaps in the 1937 Paducah flood), and the order had been filled out in ink(probably a replacement marker ordered by a descendant in the 1890's), which has faded badly, and made the handwriting almost illegible. We are going to try to bring it out, but it may be deteriorated to the point that such will be impossible. I will continue to keep the lists informed of progress. -B ==========================================================================================================