For Look Up Items... please note Lookup in the subject header and the surname. Remember that I get tons of emails: I also have several volunteers for lookups: http://www.usgennet.org/~ahtopaag/volunteers.html; please feel free to contact them Items for Look-Ups -- Need transcribers please!!! I am still in need of transcribers for Howard Co. Missouri Black Marriages; if anyone is interested please let me know. The marriages are in jpg files... so I will email a jpg file; which represents one digitized page of marriages. (there are nearly 100 pages to transcribe... so please join us in transcribing one page) St. Charles County Black Marriages; 1865-1871; I can do lookups... and will work on getting these online shortly. Cooper County Wills (1820-1870) and Marriages (1819-1870)-- I can do lookups Online for COOPER COUNTY Just a reminder that for older (1850-1865) marriages there is info on the Cooper Co US GENWEB ftp site. OR see: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/cooper see also http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm This site is for marriages: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/cooper/vitals/mar1850-65.txt Most of the Cooper Co cemeteries are online now -- (great plus 1876 atlas -- which is fabulous) but, I also ordered the cemetery books from Ellsberry Publications (Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry) for $10. You can see her online cataloge at: Ellsberry Publications: http://www.execpc.com/~pipesb/elsbery.htm To search the Roots Web Mail List History files, go to: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter the list name(without the '-L') such as mocooper. Then enter what you are looking for. Online resources for African Americans in Missouri Black Families of the Ozarks: includes a compilation of resources from Lawrence, McDonald, Jasper, Cedar and Greene County Missouri -- includes Black Marriage records and census data, <http://207.160.233.32/contents.htm> Washington, Morgan and Franklin County Missouri Black Marriages <http://www.usgennet.org/~ahtopaag/Document.html> and <http://www.rootsweb.com/~moafram/Document.html> Randolph County Black Marriages 1865-66 Chariton County Missouri Slave Schedules Phelps Co Colored Census 1876 Miller Co Missouri Slaveowners 1859 Cooper County Slave Schedules (4 parts) Howard Co 1870 census (3 townships only -- need transcribers for the remaining townships) <http://www.usgennet.org/~ahtopaag/slaveinfo.html> <http://www.rootsweb.com/~moafram/slaveinfo.html Resource books -- census and cemetery records in for Northeast Missouri http://www.marktwain.net/~kwilham/data.htm Without Sanctuary -- This is a very scary...photographs about our country's barbaric history of lynchings.. http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html Talk to you soon, traci wilson kleekamp african americans in missouri (P.S. Don't forget...I have 3 little kiddos...so it make take me several days to return a reply on lookups.) Please feel free to send me important links...