Hello LaRae, I wont to welcome you to the Okmulgee list.The families I'am looking for are.Sheltons,Gardner, & Moores .Lived inthe Bristow, Henryetta,Beggs, area in the 1830s untill 1900 Thank You Dovie ----- Original Message ----- From: <TimeTrvlrO@aol.com> To: <OKOKMULG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:10 AM Subject: [OKOKMULG] Okmulgee list, page, & boards > 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 > >