Hi All Friends, Helpers and Guests of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have added two great new pages to the site today. In the Wills Section of the Online Research Library (Box 6A) you will find the Estate of Betsey BROWN (a.k.a. Betsey Backus). She died childless and her estate was transferred to her many Kennedy nieces and nephews, most of whom were in our Tri-County area. This is a good inventory, not only of her estate, but of the Kennedy Clan. I have also added a very charming 1900 photo of two young rakes in the tobacco shed at Sabinsville to the 1900 Museum. You can reach this both from the 1900 Museum page and from the Clymer Township page. Whatever is going on out there? For the past few days, my mailbox has been packed every day with file submissions of all kinds for the site. You are all very busy typing and scanning. I received more than twenty files just yesterday and also a notice that Linda has formatted a lot more of the census pages from submissions of Fred and the Carltons and Kelly, so I'll be linking those in today also. I am swamped. Glad to see so much participation and so much enthusiasm. While I thought you were quiet because you were all out in the sunshine, you were all hunkered over typing. Over the four years that my site has been in development and the mail list was added to it, I have tried to create a sense of community surrounding the site. The mail list, of course, is another tool to enhance that sense of community. Every once in a while we have a protest from someone who does not want to be part of the community and who thinks it silly that anyone else does, either. I have been very sensitive to those criticisms and have slacked off in enhancing the "community attitude" that has been instrumental in helping the site to grow as it has. I am glad that so many of you have kept that sense of community participation and have continued to help in the development. In the future, when new guests to the list, who are not familiar with our customs and processes, protest that we are too friendly here, you all have my permission to politely ask that person (privately) to please sit in the back row and not ruin our fun. I do consider ourselves a virtual community extended from the actual community of our ancestors who lived here together in the past. Thanks to all of you who contribute to the growth of our collective body of knowledge and body of research materials. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counti es Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>