Good morning! Another week is starting and I'm trying to get back to an almost "normal" schedule - no progress on the eye but I am determined to whip this!!! Charlie has posted this week's puzzler; I decided to give you an easier one this week to make up for all the difficult ones I've been sending your way. Click on the URL in my signature line called gensoup and take a guess! I mentioned last week that I was going to tell you about a brand new book that I'm impressed with - if you want to learn a lot about Kentucky - its history, counties, statistics, etc. etc. this is an excellent choice. Many of you know the name of Thomas CLARK who recently died - THE historian of KY. His foundation, in Lexington, just published a book entitled "Premier Edition Clark's Kentucky Almanac and Book of Facts, 2006. I was asked to contribute information on Barren Co - there is a write-up on every county and I received a complimentary copy. Some of the topics included in this 769 page book includes: History of the State, Women in Ky History, KY in the Civil War, Wars and Conflicts, honor recipients, Lewis and Clark, historical markers. There is a section of State Government and Politics - going thru the history of the state and its various histories and offices. There is a section on historical documents, federal government (including the Trail of Tears), counties (history of each one), weather and climate, culture and the arts, astronomical calendar for 2006, notable Kentuckians, business and economy, agriculture, family trends and society, health and science, education, religion, law enforcement and crime, recreation and travel, sports and media. Hundreds of pictures, lots of great information. I haven't had time to go thru page by page but I really like it! The book is available from The Clark Group, P O Box 24766, Lexington KY 40523-4766. It is available in soft back for $19.95; or hardback for $29.95. Shipping is $6.00 per book; KY residents add 6% sales tax. I have the softback version, as much as I will use it - could have used the hardback! I have no connection, no money will line my pockets over this ... but it is so informative - the old trails, waterways, navigation, it's all covered. They have a web site also: www.kyalmanac.com When not posting to the lists, I am continuing to work on the updated cemetery book that Martha Powell Harrison and I have been compiling since 1992. Martha is doing all the county cemeteries; I believe at last count she has compiled over 190 unrecorded cemeteries (from the historical society publication of 1992) and about 5,000 unrecorded burials. Since her records and mine are so massive, we are going to have to publish this as two separate books. I am taking the city cemeteries, cremations, burial of Barren Countians out of county/state; corrections to the 1992 book. I am indexing my portion now; I only have 90 pages indexed and have over 6,000 names in the index so far and there are 255 pages of new information. Both of us are including extra information about the individuals when available. I have, on a majority, parents' names, spouses names, sometimes occupations or how they died, marriages on some. We obtained this information from the death certificates, every newspaper from the area still in existence (on microfilm), working with 3 funeral homes who turned over all their records to me, the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery master records, etc. When in Bowling Green at the KY Library, I went thru their burial permits and found Barren Co citizens who were buried there and several funeral home records there. Many of the deaths go back to the late 1800's and up thru the end of April 2006. This would cover peoople born back into the 1840's! It has been a massive and long-time project - well, about 16 years' worth of compiling the information and hunting down cemeteries. So - if I'm quiet, it's not always the eye - but I'm indexing! That's it for today. I have another eye appt tomorrow in the morning; if I don't get my posts made in time, I'll do it when I return. Have a great day and a great week! Sandi 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/