Thank you for the kind words, folks, but may I make a clarification? One, I don't "own" those archives. USGenWeb is an all-volunteer project and those archives are yours! Two, because I don't live in Union Parish, all my research has been done in the "old days" Tim was talking about - through the mail, through those old microfilm machines Tim mentioned, and to quote Blanche DuBois <g> through "the kindness of strangers." For the last 3 years I've had the wonderworld of the internet opened up to me, I've found tons of stuff on all my families, and there's just one thing about the internet I hate. I don't think family research should have become the cash cow it is for a bunch of money grubbers. Our Archives is something special, I think, but it wouldn't be without Tim and Roy and Hazel and Mary Margaret and Gina and Judy and Sherry and Jan and Harold and Bobby and Ann and Gaylon and all the others I haven't named who send in their contributions. That's why it's OUR archive - I'm just the mechanic - you're the motor! Karen PS - Not everyone knows this, but I also found my spouse on the Internet!! <g> Karen Mabry Rice, USGenWeb Archives Coordinator Union Parish, Lousiana http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm

Karen let me add my thanks also I haven't contributed much to the list but do keep up with the list and use the archives often. The Brantly and Beech Grove cemetery census were a great help. I also found my spouse, she is the one with Union Parish connections, on the internet. Johnnye