Just thought I'd close out the week with some miscellaneous notes. 1 - I'm glad that Bill Utterback posted about the proposed conference coming up at the end of July in Paducah. Many of you are aware of Bill's expertise and extensive knowledge of genealogy and that this conference will be well worth your time. While dealing primarily with the Jackson Purchase area, I am positive that Bill and other speakers will greatly increase your knowledge in many areas. I'm going to be attending and really recommend that you participate if you possibly can. The deadline for letting Bill know is the 10th so if you think you have some interest, you can contact him at billco@arn.net 2 - if you haven't checked out the national graveside locator at http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1, you might be missing something very helpful. This covers the entire US, not just VA and deals with soldiers and their families buried in national cemeteries. I found a LOT of information. 3 - My post for next Thursday on KYRESEARCH I think will be a very unusual one. We've all read of the sci fi "little green men" of Mars, but have you read about the real blue people of Troublesome Creek? This is quite interesting and I just learned about it thanks to one of the subbers on the research list. If you're not a member of KYRESEARCH - it's a once a week post I make every Thursday, no queries, no other posts. If you'd like to learn about something many people haven't heard about this next week, you can subscribe by sending an email to KYRESEARCH-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com and just putting the word subscribe in the subject line. If you're already receiving my posts, you don't need to resubscribe. 4 - Is anyone missing this lady? Walters, Sarah 1 Jan 1774 17 Dec 1820 Her tombstone was just located, in the vicinity of the McDaniel's graveyard in the Salem Church area, but we don't think, at this time, it came from this cemetery. We have no idea of who she was - if you have any information on Sarah, please write me. I have no other information on her so can't help you back! 5 - Thanks to all the emails asking how I'm doing. Slowly ... at times I've felt like those little green men - like a million dollars even, green and wrinkled! But I am on my feet and have no idea of what hit me. I'm not pushing yet as my get up and go has pretty well gotten up and gone but I am on the mend. 5 - thanks for the compliments also on the little newspaper tidbits I've been posting. I think these give us an insight to the lives and problems of our ancestors and might offer a clue once in a while as to why we can't find our family. Hopefully - will see you Monday with a new puzzler and Barren Co posts. Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/