Spring is here, and time to get out of the house and trace family history. Just a few reminders, your Crawford County web site has many places and things to assist you in your genealogy ventures, but we need more, much mire. If you are planning a trip to the county (assuming you live a ways away) and plan to visit a cemetery or two, take along your camcorder and record all the tombstones, if we do not already have that cemetery online. Then you can either transcribe the stones or send them in to be added to the web site. I have never had a cemetery I found family in that I never visited more than once. You may find in the future a reason to revisit a cemetery after finding inlaws or parents of an ancestor, or children etc., so by having the entire cemetery transcribed, you have it online for easy access in the future and can help out other patrons. The web site still has current obituaries posted, which appeared in the local paper (third year running). If anyone would like to transcribe obituaries from the local paper from microfilm or old newspapers, let me know. We have a long way to go. We also take scanned obituaries. We have the 1830-1900 census online either in transcribed form or images, or by volunteer. We still have an active Photo Album page, and you can send a link to your personal web site if it has genealogy, or send in a gedcom. If you send a gedcom, be sure to update your email address. Gedcoms are permissible if they contain Crawford County families. Got a Family Reunion planned for this summer? Inviting any related members or just by invitation? If you want to advertise your reunion here, send me the particulars, i.e.. date, location, "bring family pictures" etc. Want to make a quilt with pics of all of your ancestors? This is easy to do if you know how. You have to have pics to do this, but it is easy now. Email me for the particulars if you're interested. Last but not least I think it is worthy to add in a special thanks to the troops that are assisting in this effort. Brian Oster for all of his work in providing marriage records not just for our county, but several others around us. To Ed and Sandy Mackley for providing census images. To Larry Flesher and the other CC's for running the best GenWeb state in the Nation. Take care and God bless. -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand