On Wed, 16 May 2001, Mary Love Berryman wrote: > Smith County has a book "Some Biographies of Old Settlers." Historical, > Personal and Reminiscent. Volume I > By Sid S. Johnson, 1900: Sid S. Johnson, Publisher, Tyler, Texas. It is > much like the Goodspeed Books but it was published locally. > > I decided to put it in the Smith Co Archives but didn't want to have to type > it all myself. I tried scanning it but the old print doesn't scan too well. > Anyway I decided to put up a TOC and ask the folks on the TXSMITH List to > help me. I put it http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/smith/bios.html up > on the web and sent out a list on Sunday, May 13 and got an overwhelming > response. Yesterday, Tuesday, I mailed out 10 envelopes and 1 person picked > hers up. Another has a copy of the book. I have two more envelopes to mail > today. > > Still have a few chapters to assign but would not be surprised if those > don't get assigned today! > > Just wanted to share with you my little success story! Will let you know > when I get all of them back and up! :) > Mary Love > Great! David damorgan@nyx.net David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm