This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_916271764_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_916271764_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: [email protected] Return-path: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: UnionReunion '99--updated suggestions Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:12:13 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Sally, I just wanted to tell you that Farmerville doesn't have an S in it. Some of us southerners probably pronounce it like that sometimes though!! But it is just Farmerville. There is a Gen. library in Monroe at the main office on 18th Street. They might could suggest someone but the best bet may be to ask someone at the Shreve Memorial Library genealogy department in Shreveport. They have a huge Gen department that also includes all the Civil War military records and pension applications on microfilm. They also have many of the actual deeds and marriage records of Union Parish on microfilm. I haven't been involved in the discussions so far on reunion. I live in West Monroe, La and would be happy to make any phone calls etc as needed to the Monroe library in reference to a possible speaker for ya'll. You might also want to tell folks who will be visiting the courthouse in Farmerville that it is a wonderful place for research. They have all the records except one marriage book for the period covering the late 1850's thru the mid 1860's. It was lost. There is not any seating available though. The staff there are also great. The Farmerville Library is also worth a stop. They have several books there on Union Parish families. I was recently in the Taylor cemetery near Crossroads in Union Parish. While there an elderly gentlemen approached us and asked if he could help us find anything. We told him we were just searching for the graves of some of our Wards/Nolans and Albrittons. To make a long story short, he turned out to be 76 years old and knew EVERY person except one that we were talking about and EVEN had a picture of the g-grandfather of the girl I was with! The next week he took it to a photo shop in Monroe and had a copy made for her. If your Union Parish ancestors were in the parish long, don't be surprised who you may meet that can tell you all kinds of things about them. They are some of the nicest people on earth and don't meet strangers! :-) Debi Antley Murphy --part0_916271764_boundary--