First off in the for what its worth department - received from a correspondent - 7/26: The diaries I have were written by AVERY MAINE / MAIN who lived in CLARKVILLE (BROOKFIELD), MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK. I will be auctioning them off on eBay as I finish reading through them. The first two diaries have been listed - here are links to the auction listings. Please watch my eBay auctions as I will be listing the other diaries written by Avery Maine in the upcoming weeks. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2196&item=7339005740 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2196&item=7338827158 ============================================================================ Since my last report of 6/25/05: Chenango County: 1880 History - Chapter 12 - Newspaper history of Chenango County http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/1880-12.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Beginnings of a railroad history for central New York: Starting with the Central Valley Railroad that went bust fairly quickly tying the town of Smithville in debt for 25 years paying off bonds on the long gone rail line. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/rrhist.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Several more bios from the 1898 bios book: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/1898bios.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Skillman Cemetery - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/skillman.htm ------------------------------------------------------- 3 more pages of the 1860 census for Bainbridge: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/census/1860/bainbridge/1860bnbr.htm ============================================================================ Cortland County: Homer Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church directory circa 1918 - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycortla/homerave.htm ============================================================================ Madison County: Changing the main page around to place sites that our friends dearly departed used to host for Madison county material. Along this line I've been working on Dan's personal and history/genealogy sites. The place I had placed his personal site seems to have gone over the edge, so I'll have to look for a new home for that. I've been working on fixing broken links and/or link changes due to making this move. This past week, Dan's widow sent me a cornucopia of material both in paper and digitial form for both sites. Tim