The Scott Co, TN website was updated tonight. While it may appear that not much new information was added, the biggest changes are happening under the covers. I've completely redesigned the Family Reunion and Guestbook pages. The guestbook really needed redesign because it was so fragile and constantly breaking. The Family Reunion page now displays your reunion information more clearly and I've made it easier for you to add your own reunion information. Expect to see more significant changes over the next few months as I migrate the website to rely on databases to present the information. You will find this particularly useful as I merge the cemetery, death, and marriage records into a single database. You will be able to conduct searches and only display those names and their information that you are interested in seeing. This should make the site much faster and significantly lessen the download times, especially for those with slow modem connections. This will take me some time to accomplish the redesign and migrate existing data to the new format. As you work with the website, please let me know when you find broken links so I can fix them. I fixed many tonight but there are always others as other websites that I link to go out of business, change their structures, or change their providers. Below is a summary of updates made tonight. ...tim west... Scott Co, TN Coordinator for the TNGenWeb Project http://www.tngenweb.org/scott * Miscellaneous corrections or changes o Made corrections to the 1997 obituary for Morris Goodman (courtesy of Rebecca Goodman, granddaughter) o Removed dynamic font changes when rolling over menu items on the homepage -- they were irritating. o Removed or corrected a ton of broken links (still have a bunch more to do for the next update) * Scott Co, TN Cemeteries o Added a small history of the Morris Goodman Cemetery (a.k.a. the Isaac Reed Cemetery) (courtesy of Rebecca Goodman) o Added additional information to many of the entries for the Wright Cemetery in Winfield (courtesy of Peggy Pennell) * Scott Co, TN FNB Chronicles o Added the Winter 2004, Vol 15, No 2 issue to the index + The Glenmary Coke Ovens + The Lowe Family Journey + Scott County Lowes in the Civil War + Michael Lowe: Scott County's first settler + Maggie Barger o Added Pastor John Shepherd (1984-1988) to the list of Bethlehem Baptist Church pastors as reported in the FNB Chronicle; Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1834 - 1996; Fall 1996, Vol. 8, No. 1 * Scott Co, TN Death Records o Added 14 headstone pictures from 1882 through 1951 o Added 12 obituaries from 1917 through 2004 o Added picture of George Pennington and Erie Smith (courtesy of Debbie Reynolds) * Scott Co, TN Family Reunions o Completely re-designed and rebuilt the Family Reunions display page and the add Family Reunions page. Be sure to add your own family reunions. * Scott Co, TN Genealogy and Historical Societies o Added link to the Scott County Historical Society homepage (courtesy of Bruce Butler) * Scott Co, TN Geography o Added link to the Map Maker Utility (courtesy of Connie Mead) interesting site - lets you build and save county maps * Scott Co, TN Guestbook o Completely re-designed and rebuilt the guestbook. Old guestbook design was too fragile and too easily compromised by spammers. * Scott Co, TN Research Aids o Added link to Appalachian Regional Commission Discusses the ARC's role and provides a number of interesting resources (particularly maps) about the appalachia to include Scott Co, TN o Added link to Definitions of Some Words Used in Early Documents (1700s & 1800s) Definitions that pertain to wills, deeds, land pattents & inventories. o Added link to German and Swiss Colonization in Morgan Co, TN A 1925 thesis discussion by Hobart Schofield Cooper on German and Swiss immigration to the area o Added link to Southern Mountain Dialect (courtesy of Dan Gibson) Many linguists refer to the folk speech of Appalachia as Southern Mountain Dialect. You can still hear some of these words spoken today in Scott County, Tennessee.