Just to let you know Brenda is typing up a storm with the cemetery inscriptions. That good weather was a boon to us. So keep looking at the site. Also I have some additions to add to them. Dates, marriages, children, military, etc., all that good stuff that keeps it from just names and places. It takes time to cross reference all this. We want what we put on the sight to be correct! Now what would you like to see put on the sight? Have you got some pictures to share? How about your clippings. Bible pages? Family antipodes? Obituaries? What ever. If you are a "hunt and peck typer" just scan or copy it and send it to our private add. We do this just for you. Not for personal gain of profit. But to keep it viable you must pitch in too. Put your minds to work, if the webs of family research haven't clogged it up. Come up with some ideas. We need to stick together and keep genealogy free! HIGBEE CEMETERY UP DATE I have been contacted by Kevin Tonkin, a Niles Tow. Trustee, he is trying to get the old Higbee Cemetery in Bertrand, ship shape. This seems to be no small task. The site is land locked and we are looking at every option. I truly hope that he can do something. He seems very interested and I have given him all the information I have. Why not e-mail him a word of encouragement. ..........hey Niles people!!!!!!! <kbtonkin@excite.com> LADIES OF THE G.A.R RECORDS Coming soon a very special project of mine. Do you remember "The Ladies of the G.A.R?" Well, we will have the records of the Niles Circle #45 on line soon. This will include the history of the circle, charter members and of course their Civil War ancestors !!!!!!! I was the last President of the circle (the baby and State Jr. Vice Pres.) before we gave up the charter. I just donated all the records to the Sons of Union Veterans Civil War for safe keeping (but have copies, of course). They have a special archive in Lansing for this information, it will be preserved for our future researchers. Please ..No lookups yet. Be patient and you will have it all. Remember each other and keep up your good work for the future. This is a big boat we are all in and we must all pull together. Taint it all a bunch o' fun, Daundra PS add for the web site just in case, just cut and paste. http://www.rootsweb.com/~miberrie/index.htm

Check out http://home.attbi.com/~cmmcangel/genealogy/wilson/wilson_pages.htm for the In Memoriam card for five members of the St Joseph, MI fire department killed on 9/6/1896. Text as follows: In Memoriam Members of the St. Joseph Fire Department killed in the performance of duty at the burning of Yore's Opera House in Benton Harbor Sunday Morning, September 6th, 1896 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Mitchell Citrus Heights, CA ken@creativemindssacramento.com 916-275-3610 (voicemail) http://www.creativemindssacramento.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." Voltaire -------------------------------------------------------------------------