In a message dated 8/1/00 7:44:09 PM Central Daylight Time, MSITAWAM-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I have very willingly shared my information with anyone who is interested - > many times they never bothered to respond that they received it, much less > share. I have also very willingly done numerous lookups in various books > that I own. Yes, it's a lot of work. Yes, it's very expensive. HOWEVER, > there are people who can't or don't know how to do it themselves. I for one > > am very willing to post any and all information that I have collected over > the 25 years that I've been researching. If the list manager would like, I > will also transcribe information I have gathered from census records, wills, > > land records, etc. Are you? > Billie, I don't know the background here, but as a reader of the list, I appreciate all that everyone has and is doing. This is one of the most active lists to which I subscribe and I can tell you it is also one of the best. That is because of people like you that are helping others. I know sometimes we get caught up in our research and forget about the generosity of spirit and time that goes into the help we receive, but I for one do appreciate it. Any information that is posted to the internet - whether to a list such as this, or to a web page, is appreciated by so many people. And the wonderful thing is that it can be there for posterity. Thank you for any help you have given to anyone on this list - because I also was a recipient of that help. Please do post any transciptions here and dare I also suggest that the offer be made to share them with the County Web Site also. That way, many, many more people can profit from the work and generosity you put into the work. Without the Itawamba Web Site and some of its links, it would have been a long, long time before I discovered that two of my maternal gggrandparents were in the county at about the same time - and I found the marriage records for both families through Mississippi County Web Sites. One was the Itawamba and the other was Tishomingo. Thanks to other transcribers and sharers of information such as yourself. Thank you - and all the others that take their time and money to help those of us that can't be there in person to help ourselves. Maryann Dixon Moseby