A rare unscheduled post! Many of you, bless your hearts, have asked about future volumes of my Guide for Kentucky Researching Guide and I have just finished volume 4 - the last for a year or so. I wanted to tell you about it if you will allow - and all of you know tht you are under NO obligation by being on the list of getting it!!! I think most of you will vouch for me in that department! Contents of volume 4 include: What Really Counts (not just the dates but the lives of your ancestors); What Questions Can You Ask (how to interview family members); KY Seminaries and Academies (those established in the early statehood days and their trustees Early Historians of Kentucky - what they wrote, what about, availibility; Post Offices in KY 1874 (includes many out of existence today); Early River Navigation in KY (ferries, owners of same, distances from town to town) Road Development in KY (how did the pioneers get from here to there as roads opened) The Log Rollers (log rolling occupations - description of and some names) Violent Deaths in KY 1878 (as recorded by Collins and other historians) Grave Houses and the Annual Funerals (what was a grave house, what happened at the funeral and why did they have the same funeral every year?) Civil War Prisoner of War Camps (where located, who they housed (no individual names); treatment; problems) One Look at Reconstruction Riding the Rails into War (the railroad side of the Civil War) 9th KY Infantry Regiments (rosters) The Underground Railroad (how it operated) Documentation of Census Records Coal Mining in KY 1750-1900 (time table of coal development industry in eastern KY) Old Kentucky Newspapers (an extensive list of some of the old newspapers, what are are available in different libraries or on microfilm - shows name, sometimes editor, years) Early Tobacco Warehouses and mileages (where they were, who operated them (surnames), mileage from one to the other) Kentucky Churches (a list of all the churches in town order thru the beginning of the A's thru most of the C's - names, addresses, phone numbers). There are supposedly 52,000 churches in KY so this is just the begining. The illustrated book is 104 pages long including an extensive full-name index. If you have any interest, you may contact me privately for details. Thanks guys! Sandi Col. Sandi Gorin, 205 Clements, Glasgow, KY 42141 (270) 651-9114 Member: Glasgow-Barren Co Chamber of Commerce Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ <>< TIPS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Tips KYBIOS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Bios SCKY ARCHIVES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Surname Registry: http://sckyregistry.homestead.com/SCKYHome.html Merged Surname Registry all counties in South Central KY: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/files/surnames/surnames.txt