Sept. has been quiet with a dozen queries posted and biog. or obit. for Butler Co. site Rootsweb.com had been changing computers and so has been down some of its pages have not been working including the "search" of Butler Co. files. This was short lived and works now. I thought I had some donated 1885 Census but it turned out to be for Nance Co. and not Butler. Remember to post your oldest families in a query, if there is any chance that others may be looking for your lineage/surname. Some times we are so "close to home" with our own searches that we forget that distant cousins may be looking for an old pioneer or immigrant as a starting place for their search. Accurate queries also help document a county in an informal way. We ought to have one query for each surname or couple don't you think? If you have a personal genealogy web page, use a query and include the address (URL) in the space provided. Lastly, if anyone on this list attends meetings of the Eastern Nebraska Genealogical Society, Columbus Kin Seekers or other similar group, tell the group that free classified ads for genealogy purposes can be placed on the Butler Co. Rootsweb resource page. Sale/Want Ads could be for books, cemetery lists, marriage lists, lookup services, etc. Or just an ad informing people the organization exists. This is available in all US county sites. Emmett Mason