Mark, I think that would be fabulous. The fifty years of records from the Pigeon Creek Baptist Church in Cocke Co. TN were some of the most fascinating records I have ever read. (They consist of some fifty pages, downloaded if anyone would like to look them up.) Who would have thought church minutes could be so entertaining? There were the usual church squabbles, members being called to answer for their habit of racing horses, drinking, gambling, adultery, and the threatened excommunication of a member who was attempting to declare bankruptcy. There is even a record of a delegation of the good ladies of the church being sent to visit a local woman who was running a house of ill repute. (This is funny stuff). One of the saddest was about a man who the church sent some distance to get a wagon load of salt. The following month he was called on the carpet for having done it on a Sunday! It outlined fifty years of vice, community needs, and everyday concerns, but at length, the minutes became rather poignant. Although there's no mention of the Civil War, as it approached, the squabbles ceased, the mundane was set aside, as the minutes documented only of a good deal of singing and praying. I will look for the minutes of the Poplar Springs Baptist Church with greatest anticipation. Hope you go for it, Mark. Judith Vinson Mark Murphy wrote: > > How much interest would there be in a transcription of the records of > the Poplar Springs Baptist Church, 1788-1877 in Franklin Co. NC? I > might write my first book, if it hasnt' been done before. > > -- > Mark A. Murphy > > ============================== > 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