Hello, I'd like to introduce myself to you. My name is LaRae Halsey Brooks, and I am the new Okmulgee County mailing list manager. I'll also be doing the GenWeb page for the county, as well as maintaining the seven different GenConnect message boards. The Okmulgee County mailing list currently has 91 subscribers: 71 in regular mail mode, and 20 in digest. Great numbers! I think it would be a good idea to start off with a modified Roll Call. Please share with us all your Okmulgee families. My mother was born and raised in Beggs, so I will post my Sullivan/Shipley families. With your permission, I will put your posts on a special page on the county webpage... who knows, you might find long lost cousins! When posting, please include the basics....WHO (complete name), WHAT (are you seeking?), WHEN (did these folks live?), WHERE (did these folks live?) and HOW (can we reach you?). These are great 'memory joggers', and I put them into the rotation of taglines that will (hopefully) appear at the end of every post made to the mailing list. The Okmulgee County GenWeb page is very nicely designed, so I will not be changing the format, but will instead be asking you all to help add valuable resource material to the page by contributing anything you may have -- or have access to -- that pertains to early residents of the county. I would like to start a section for Okmulgee Family Genealogies, so those of you who wish to place your family information on the webpage, may do so. You can also add favorite old photographs with the material, if you'd like. Even if you have a personal genpage, this will be a way to highlight those in your family who lived in Okmulgee County. Links to the Genconnect Boards will be placed on the page by this evening. The Queries page has 285 messages (terrific!), and I reset the board to display all the posts, rather than just the ones from the last few months. If loading time on this page becomes a problem for any of you, please just let me know and I'll cut back some on the number displayed. Other boards you will now be able to access in addition to the current Queries board will be for Bible Records, Biographies, Deeds, Obituaries, Pensions, and Wills. Since there are no messages posted to any of the newer boards, I invite you all to help put these boards to good use! Thank you all in advance for helping to provide valuable research material for all of us who are looking for our Okmulgee County kin! I hope you will check back on the webpage in the coming weeks to see the many new additions planned, and I look forward to getting to know each of you as we work together on these projects. Kind regards, LaRae TimeTrvlrO@aol.com http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tmetrvlr/index.html Okmulgee listmgr http://www.rootsweb.com/~okokmulg/okmulgee.htm