Thanks, Twila Jennings Smith, for those kind words, and thanks to many of you who've sent me notes of congratulations (or condolences). Twila, I'm going to use this response to you as a way to send some current items to the whole mailing list: 1. ROME, Missouri. We had a discussion about Rome, Missouri, a few months back, and I told some of you that I was doing a manuscript on that place in southwest Douglas County, and the Richards family. That manuscript is now completed and I've placed a .pdf version of it at the following link: http://www.staff.smsu.edu/j/jab885t. For those of you having an interest in that topic, please take a look at it. 2. FEEDBACK FROM YOU TO HELP ME "KEEP IT SIMPLE". As a RootsWeb site coordinator, I'm now on a mailing list for coordinators across the country. The first tip that came through that list was a reminder to "Keep it simple because not everyone has the same computer capabilities that you do." That was proven to me yesterday -- I spent the day in Ava at the home of Cinita Davis Brown. We went to her new computer so I could show her (and her house guest, Laura Moncrief) all the 'wonderful' things that I have on line. Well, Cinita doesn't have her new computer at optimal resolution and doesn't really want to change -- as a result my 'wonderful' things were not quite so wonderful, and some things didn't even work! Also, Cinita uses a 56K phone modem unlike my super-fast broadband, and some of my big files because impossible to deal with. It was a lesson to me. So, please help me out in the future -- write me when things don't work, or when you have any problems. We'll chip away at the problems as best we can. 3. DNA IN GENEALOGY. I'm all excited. I'm about to participate in a DNA test on the Browns to see if a couple of Brown lines can be linked together. I'd like to hear from anyone who has done that and their experience with it. Got to run -- my wife and I are celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary today, plus we have a big Davis-Brown reunion in Ava tomorrow. Just about everyone there will be descendants of John Thomas Davis or Jesse G. Brown. Why are the two families together? Well, two of Jesse Brown's granddaughters married sons of John Davis -- it creates a great fellowship group. -----Original Message----- From: Twila Jennings Smith [mailto:smithtnt@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:41 PM To: MODOUGLA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MODOUGLA] Re: I'm the new Douglas County Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Welcome Kenneth: You have been a wonderful help to me in the past and I look forward to more contacts in the future. I'm sure you'll learn the ropes quickly. Good luck! Twila Jennings Smith ==== MODOUGLA Mailing List ==== Don't forget about the Douglas County, MO Resource page http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/MO/Douglas/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930 <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237> &sourceid=1237 The Ozark Uncle Kenneth Brown, Ph.d., CPA Emeritus (Retired) Professor of Accountancy Springfield, MO Email: ozarkuncle@sbcglobal.net