Houston and Stewart Counties are alive and well. But now you are asking for a heckuva mouthful when you ask what the most "memorial things" were as a TnGenWeb host... there were so many success stories this year I couldn't begin (and a lotta fun too! Didn't we, Cher??), but I guess I could generalize and say it was the "explosion of sharing" that hit Stewart Co. The site doubled, tripled, multiplied.... the researchers got on a roll of sending in whatever they had and it has been quite an amazing year. The list has turned into a family atmosphere and such sharing and caring and swapping I never dreamed possible. Never ever a bad word outta ANYBODY...and plenty of caring. Houston is still taking baby steps as I just got that this fall, and Susan just came on board. Plans upcoming??? With apologies to Mr. King.... "I have a dream...." I have a dream of seeing ALL possible public records ONLINE and available to every researcher of both those counties at the touch of a button, the click of a mouse. I have a dream... oh yeah. I want those sites and those lists to be something more than facts and dates and names too.... I want them to reflect the "downhome feel and spirit". I want researchers to feel like they really HAVE come home when they find us... I don't want a cold site, or a boring site, or a "strictly business" site or a site like any other site (and heaven forbid a "bare bones site"). Has to reflect the mood of sitting on the porch downhome...has to have the stories and the tales, the old way of doing, the beliefs and values and heritage of the people, the swapping and the sharing..... has to have everything but the smell of homemade biscuits emanating from the monitor!!!!!! (and if we could figure out how to make that happen, you betcha that would happen TOO!!!!!) There ya are (probably more of a roll than ya wanted me to get on!!!) jan Houston Co. TN Coordinator: www.rootsweb.com/~tnhousto/index.htm Stewart Co. TN Co/coordinator: www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/index.htm Listowner: Tnstewar-L-request@rootsweb.com; Tnstewar-D-request@rootsweb.com Listowner: Tnhousto-L-request@rootsweb.com; Tnhousto-D-request@rootsweb.com