I'm in the process of putting together a little site for those of us who are on the Wasco Co. list, as well as anyone else who might have an interest in Wasco Co. I'd like it to sort of be our "listmembers' site" where we can go to exchange information, post queries, post data, and things like that. The site isn't intended to replace the GenWeb site by any means -- I only mean to fill in some gaps & make "our" site somewhat of a universal "rest stop" for Wasco Co. researchers. I've talked to Norma, the County Coordinator for the Wasco Co Genweb site, and she isn't in a position right now to be able to add things to her site there, so I thought maybe we could store some at our site & either make that an extra site or just give all the goodies to Norma when she's ready for them. Part of my goal is simply to have a URL that points to our list, so that if someone is searching for info about Wasco Co., they can find the list by coming to our site. As I said, I'm working on getting the site up & running right now. I'll be uploading the data I have & other info throughout the weekend, so that hopefully all the links will take people to something valuable. I'd really appreciate it if you guys would all send me your favorite Wasco Co or Oregon related links, to be posted on the "links" page. If you have any "hard data" like census transcriptions, marriage indexes, cemetery transcriptions & the like, it would also be great if you wanted to donate those to our new little site. If you go to the site shown below, you can see what I have in mind to put up on this site. If you can think of anything else that should be there, please let me know. If you contribute data to our site, you will have the option to contribute them to the GenWeb site when it's ready for updating, if you want to do that. I will not automatically give anything away that you contribute to this site. The copyright will remain yours & there will be a credit to that effect on anything you donate. You may un-contribute anything you've contributed to the site, at any time you desire to do so in the future. Wills, obituaries, whatever you can contribute, I'd love to have it there. I mean for this to be *our* site -- not mine -- so the more you contribute, the better it will be. For right now I have housed the site at the business site I'm involved in, hoping to bring the Wasco site a bit more traffic that way. As more is added both to the business site and to the Wasco Co. site, I will probably have to move it to some of the free space available on the 'net, since the business site is purchased space. I just thought it would be nice to start out with a site that's free of ad banners, popups, etc., and where it's likely to get some traffic from within the business site (once I have the links in place on the business site. To access the site directly, use this URL: http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/ Down off my soapbox now...Happy holidays to you and your families. -- Cheri puny@mail.com --->>>^<<<--- Freebies for Gen. Addicts---> http://www.historysavers.com/