Well Howdy Everyone... How are you doin' on your transcriptions? So far 4 people have completed their segments of the transcriptions of the slave ledger of John White a slave trader/seller from Central Missouri. White's slave selling and dealings is covered in a book called "Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market," by Walter Johnson. The book is very very informative and interesting -- and inexpensive to boot. If you have decided that you wanna give up and move on in regards to transcribing.. let me know. Cause the transcription stuff is a real pain in the butt. I do need for you to send back what you have if you just can't make it through. You will be getting postcard in the mail soon too -- to follow up on your progress and confirm the pages that you were sent a little over a year ago. If you are hanging in there... and inching by little by little; please drop me a line and let me know how you are progressing. I'm using a prepared email list... so if you are one of the 4 DONE transcribers...please ignore this message. Hope you are all well. I will be uploading slave schedules for Boone County shortly and black marriages for Pemiscot Co. If you need a look-up I also have St. Charles, Boone and Cooper County Black marriage records. Morgan County records are online. I am still in need of black marriage records for Randolph, Callaway, Pettis, Audrain, Marion and Moniteau. Jackson Co and Chariton county Black marriage records would be great to have too. We could also use slave schedules for those counties too. In the next month or so -- I'll also be making some changes to the website. Looks like the slave database is offline for good but I believe a CD of the data will be available in the near future. I'll keep you posted on details as they develop. If anyone else is interesting in transcribing any records that would be helpful to others or doing look-ups based on materials you have, please let me know. If you have wills, probate and other related information that you'd like to contribute -- it can be posted at this site: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/indexusg.html Scroll down about midway to view the POSTING links. Looks like a few of my Missouri links are a little goofed up. I'll get those fixed lickety-split. If you have any materials you want to mail me to scan and put online... I'm open to whatever slave data and documents you are willing to share. Thanks alot, traci wilson-kleekamp african americans in missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org 4527 E. De Ora Way Long Beach, CA 90815 562/961-8424