Pam! You did it! Congratulations! :-D And it all happened so quickly! Did you just write to Barb and tell her you wanted the site, or what? What a nice surprise, really. Now, with the two of us being new, the MSPONTOT list is REALLY shaken up!!! lol Colleen Greg Gibbs wrote: > > Hello folks, > > My name is Pam Gibbs and I have taken over the MSGenWeb Pontotoc County > Website from the capable hands of Barb Ceverny. The purpose of this > e-mail is to tell you a bit about myself (hoping you will be patient > with me). > > I live with my husband and two of my three children in Hattiesburg, MS, > which is in the southeast part of the state. Pontotoc is a 4 to 5 hour > drive. We are fully into the high school track season now--I cannot > tell you how much fun it is to drive two hours, wait two more, and see > my daughter run for less than a minute, and then drive home. I am also > a band parent with a trumpet player and a color guard member, so we > juggle that for most of the summer and fall. Jazz band cranks up in > spring and this is my son's first year in that. I have grown accustomed > to trying to be two or three places at once! > > I hope to make some minor changes to the website(such as getting my > e-mail address posted there for you to use)in the next couple of weeks, > and hope to do some site revisions and add some new material over the > Summer. > > I need your help. If you have Pontotoc County material that you can > donate please let me know. You don't have to know html or anything- I > can do that if you can just get the information to me. > > My husband's mother Frances Bramlett married James Gibbs from Alcorn > County, MS. Her family also includes the Gregory, Bishop, and Rhodes > surnames, and they originally settled around Van Vleet in Chickasaw > County and also near Houlka. The Bramletts settled at Springville in > Pontotoc County. We still have family there and try to visit as often > as we can. > > I had no idea this list was so large. We ought to be the most > successful genealogy research group on the net with so many people > participating! Thank you so much to Colleen for taking over the > maintenance of such a large list! Her energy is contagious, and I am > excited about taking over the website. I hope you all catch some of the > excitement too! > > Pam Gibbs > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gpakt > > ==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237