------_Part_39a1b568-01c1-4fa8-010203040506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Nicholson who has been posting Ashmead's History of Delaware County to www.delcohistory.org has requested that I forward his message to me and to the Delco list to the Chesco list. So here it is. ------_Part_39a1b568-01c1-4fa8-010203040506 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <PADELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (rly-yh03.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.35]) by air-yh04.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:20:32 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:20:04 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e7LCJad08820; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 05:19:36 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 05:19:36 -0700 X-Original-Sender: rick@dca.net Mon Aug 21 05:19:35 2000 Message-Id: <5.0.0.11.2.20000821073650.01615ec0@universal.dca.net> X-Sender: rick@universal.dca.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.0.11 (Beta) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:17:21 -0400 Old-To: PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com From: Rick Nicholson <rick@dca.net> Subject: Ashmead / delcohistory.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Resent-Message-ID: <pLuktB.A.nJC.X5Ro5@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1484 X-Loop: PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: PADELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com I'd like to thank Karen Mullian for pointing out my website, www.delcohistory.org and Ashmead's 1884 "History of Delaware County". I had hoped that the site would be a good resource for genealogists, as it contains hundreds of names from the early history of DelCo. As Karen pointed out, the whole site (including Ashmead) is searchable from the homepage, and it does contain much that is helpful to Chester County researchers prior to the formation of DelCo in 1789. The site is currently getting about 100 different visitors a day from all over the world! I'm about half-way through Ashmead's 700+ pages. Every night (to my wife's extreme pleasure) I transcribe a few more pages. In picking the chapters to add, I've skipped around alot - mainly because some chapters are downright boring, and partly because of specific requests (note the two partial chapters on Fire Companies). But, the whole book will be online at some point. The other purpose of delcohistory.org is to provide websites for the historic organizations of DelCo, and as a place to post other historic texts and documents. If you have something that you'd like to see on the web, just let me know. Local histories are a great resource for genealogists and researchers (and it's free!). Check out the "About This Site" section of delcohistory.org for more info. Thanks to everyone for their support, Rick Nicholson ==== PADELAWA Mailing List ==== ------_Part_39a1b568-01c1-4fa8-010203040506--