The best moment I had from last year, was a young lady I have come to know through the Union County page. She grew up in an orphanage and knew some of the history of her family. She knew enough to know that her family was from Union County. I did some leg work and put the lady in touch with her family here in Union County. The letter I received from her not only made my day, it made my year. The three worst disappointments from the previous year were the failure of myself and several others to reach any kind of agreement with our local Historical Society. Next was the failure of Shadows of Union County. This was a story page of old Union County stories and recipes. Really thought that one would go. And lastly the failure of myself in encouraging my mailing list members to create personal pages for their work. I agreed to write the pages as they sent me the information, and host them for free at Maynardville.Com. 1998 was a success for Union County as a whole. And 1999 will be better, if I can do anything about it. Of course as everyone else stated I hope to put more information online. But further than that I hope to create better participation. I intend to get Shadows of Union County off the ground this year if I have to write all the stories myself! I am going to redouble my efforts in creating some sort of agreement with our local Historical Society. And finally I hope to totally redesign the page in the next month or so. As I have added more stuff the page has become slow and not very pleasing to look at. This I will fix! Chip Union County TnGenWeb