Rick, Thanks for the stories. We can trace our ancestors on paper but it doesn't capture the spirit of these people and what their lives were like. Only the stories do this. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfpage=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName.com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A>

Rick: Was Beaukiss in Williamson or Bastrop County? I've attempted to find exactly where my gg and ggrandparents lived. I've never been able to pinopoint it, yet I'm wondering if there might be some of my ancestors buried in the cemetery at Beaukiss. They scattered from SC to the general area in Bell, Bastrop and Williamson County, all apparently near Elgin, yet I've never located exactly where. Thanx! Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > I know that this is kinda off list info and please scold me if you think so > but having said that: > > As I was growing up, my family always had a Christmas tradition of making > the 3 hour trip up to Beaukiss, near Elgin, to clean up the family graves at > the cemetary there. Nowadays a 3 hour trip is nothing but back then this > was a major excursion. We always stopped in Elgin and loaded up with Hot > Guts and a couple of loaves of bread and crackers. When we got to the > cemetary we'd have a tailgate picnic before setting about cleaning the weeds > and trash that had accumulated over the past year. We'd then drive down the > country roads looking for a good cedar tree to cut for a Christmas tree. > Sometimes we'd cut over a dozen trees (they are considered a nuisance tree > so no one objected to us cutting them down) to take home to our neighbors > and family. There's a lot of good memories connected with those annual > trips. The smell of fresh-cut cedar and the taste of those hot guts takes > me back to a really fun time of my life. > > OK, we can get back to genealogy now. ;) > Rick > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:22 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides > coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always > said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth > going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my > Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to > do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth > century. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> > To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Thanks Shirleen. > > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make > the > > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese > > shirleenreese@msn.com > > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Hi, all. > > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles > Leroy > > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. > There > > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands > I'd > > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the > pictures. > > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > > > Tammy Owen > > Bastrop County Coordinator > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > <A > > > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > > subscription. > > <A > > > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > > find new and used genealogy stuff? > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > > online marketplace</A> and > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body > of > > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. 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I know that this is kinda off list info and please scold me if you think so but having said that: As I was growing up, my family always had a Christmas tradition of making the 3 hour trip up to Beaukiss, near Elgin, to clean up the family graves at the cemetary there. Nowadays a 3 hour trip is nothing but back then this was a major excursion. We always stopped in Elgin and loaded up with Hot Guts and a couple of loaves of bread and crackers. When we got to the cemetary we'd have a tailgate picnic before setting about cleaning the weeds and trash that had accumulated over the past year. We'd then drive down the country roads looking for a good cedar tree to cut for a Christmas tree. Sometimes we'd cut over a dozen trees (they are considered a nuisance tree so no one objected to us cutting them down) to take home to our neighbors and family. There's a lot of good memories connected with those annual trips. The smell of fresh-cut cedar and the taste of those hot guts takes me back to a really fun time of my life. OK, we can get back to genealogy now. ;) Rick Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:22 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth century. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > Thanks Shirleen. > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make the > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > Shirleen Smith Reese > shirleenreese@msn.com > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > Hi, all. > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > <A > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > subscription. > <A > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > find new and used genealogy stuff? > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > online marketplace</A> and > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. 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That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth century. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > Thanks Shirleen. > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make the > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > Shirleen Smith Reese > shirleenreese@msn.com > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > Hi, all. > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > <A > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > subscription. > <A > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > find new and used genealogy stuff? > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > online marketplace</A> and > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS GenWeb, http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

Thanks Shirleen. And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make the trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! Shirleen Smith Reese shirleenreese@msn.com http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Gillespie, DC Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Hi, all. I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There may have been several different buildings during this period but someone once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Shirleen Smith Reese, Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make the trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! Shirleen Smith Reese shirleenreese@msn.com http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Gillespie, DC Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Hi, all. I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There may have been several different buildings during this period but someone once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Shirleen Smith Reese, Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

I've typed up many more newspaper articles. I've put them all together since the search engine is working pretty good. The file is on the Newspaper link if you want to go there or use the search engine. Want to see how hot it is here and wonder how your family made it through the heat? Weather alert is now on the bottom of the page. And since we are all bothered by virus, either hoax or real, I've added an interactive map at the very bottom with the latest alerts and it also tells how to fix the problem. This new one is now considered High Risk and could be named anything as it chooses what it wants to be called. I will be updating the consolidated list that I had made in color. It's hard to read in some colors so I'm going to fix that problem. Since I'm working on it, I'm adding more names and putting the source by the name instead of being the end column. It may be this weekend before I can reload each file. Remember to look at all possible variations of names as each index or file I got the information might have used a different spelling, like the census records. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfpage=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName.com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A>

once again thanks Tammy always so supportive :) xo ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bastropcc@aol.com> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:50 PM Subject: [TXBASTRO] About the virus > We have all been told that the virus' cannot execute unless you download the > file and open it, so again the main rule with email is DO NOT OPEN A FILE > UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO IT IS FROM. I would add, in this day and time, also > unless you know it was purposely sent to you. > When you get a file and don't know whether to open it or not, DON'T. Send a > message to the person and state you received the file but deleted it. AND > then delete it from your email list AND from your trash can. > > In the past two days I have received multiple emails that contain the virus. > One was named DearDorris.doc.pif and today it's named > TheFirstSeargent.doc.pif. > In the body it says something like: Hi, how are you. I sent you this file > for you to review. thanks. > None of these came from Lisa. It looks like a real email address with a > name attached. > > One my TX administrator's list they are stating that McAfee is catching it > after it is opened. Of course you should always keep the latest version and > download the new files once in a while. > > I hope I can keep these virus' away because if I loose my family file, 27,180 > individuals will be lost again. Guess we can kind of get an idea of what the > flu epidemic of 1918 did. > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. > <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > find new and used genealogy stuff? > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > List problems? Contact Gaylon L Powell at gaylon@flash.net > (Please indicate the list in question.) > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

We have all been told that the virus' cannot execute unless you download the file and open it, so again the main rule with email is DO NOT OPEN A FILE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO IT IS FROM. I would add, in this day and time, also unless you know it was purposely sent to you. When you get a file and don't know whether to open it or not, DON'T. Send a message to the person and state you received the file but deleted it. AND then delete it from your email list AND from your trash can. In the past two days I have received multiple emails that contain the virus. One was named DearDorris.doc.pif and today it's named TheFirstSeargent.doc.pif. In the body it says something like: Hi, how are you. I sent you this file for you to review. thanks. None of these came from Lisa. It looks like a real email address with a name attached. One my TX administrator's list they are stating that McAfee is catching it after it is opened. Of course you should always keep the latest version and download the new files once in a while. I hope I can keep these virus' away because if I loose my family file, 27,180 individuals will be lost again. Guess we can kind of get an idea of what the flu epidemic of 1918 did. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfpage=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName.com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A>

My apologizes for not sending my previous message to the list administrator. I have been kicked off a mailing list for my action, I just did what I was told to do and honestly would have contacted the list administrator first .......I am sorry for any inconvenience. I just wanted everyone to know rather to lose all of their hard work like I did. It won't happen again. Lisa

it is possible but everyone i know has this virus, not from me obviously, our news station shut down for the day because it is that unprotected.....the guy said everyone in my email address has the virus........so I just wanted to make sure everyone had a soloution........ This virus is the most annoying one yet.............Lisa ps sorry for any inconvenience............. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rena McWilliams" <renamc@bcni.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:25 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] virus please ready!!!!!!!!!! > Lisa - > > I suppose I am confused, but how do we know if we have this virus? If we > did, wouldn't we have a lot of "sent" messages with the attachment from the > My Documents folder? > > Is it possible that we have not been infected by an email from you? > > Thanks, > Rena > > -----Original Message----- > From: lisa [mailto:lach@prime-online.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:23 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXBASTRO] virus please ready!!!!!!!!!! > > hi all of you are infected with a virus.....it's a virus that thousands of > people have and are getting, and it also brings back the snow white > virus......why these people make virus' is mind boggling........anyway, I > thought I would tell you how to rid of it. You are in my address book and > it has attached itself to your computer via my address book, I got it the > same way, I was in someone's address book and gave it to me.........Your > virus will not be detected with a virus scan.......here is how I got rid of > it, and have included all instructions..........you must email your entire > address book and forward this message so that people can clean this out > before their computer crashes. I lost all data, most collected over a 5 > year period 3 weeks ago and am still devestated over it. Thanks and sorry > about the virus but I don't want it comming back to me again.......... Lisa > ps there is no virus attached to this email I have gotten rid of > it.......... > > here's what the the tech guy sent me, pretty detailed email......... > > Lisa, these are the e-mails from friends who also receive the SirCam Virus. > There are a few tools you can use especially the Sircam Removal tool, but > you still must check your autoexec.bat. The SARC Reference seems to work > best. > > Lisa, > > 1. If you open the e-mail, it then attaches some file from your 'My > Documents' and sends it to everyone in your address book and every contact > that might be in your InBox (like forwards from other people). It then > buries itself in your registry and hides itself and does the same thing over > and over again everytime you start up an '.exe' file. > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.h > tml > > This is where I went to get rid of the virus, because I didn't have my > viruschecker up to snuff > > 2. A new Windows E-Mail virus has been reported by members, arriving with > the > subject line named for the attached file (which contains the virus) and a > body which usually consists of three lines. The first and last line are > usually: > Hi! How are you? > and > See you later. Thanks > > > The middle line is usually one of the following: > I send you this file in order to have your advice > I hope you can help me with this file that I send > I hope you like the file that I sendo you > This is the file with the information that you ask for > > > OR this text could arrive in Spanish. > > The attached file may appear to be almost any kind of file, but will have > a hidden extensions that makes it a Windows Executable. > > This Virus will likely arrive from someone you know, because it mails > itself to everyone in the Outlook address book of an infected computer. > Please be extremely wary of all file attachments. > > The McAfeee Page for this Virus is > http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360 > > 3. Unfortunately you can't simply remove the virus by running the virus > scan - you have to manually alter your autoexec.bat file and your registry, > otherwise the worm stays in your machine. You can get full instructions on > the Norton Antivirus site. (This step may also be necessary > > I hope this gives you the needed information. > > ........Larry > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS GenWeb, http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Lisa - I suppose I am confused, but how do we know if we have this virus? If we did, wouldn't we have a lot of "sent" messages with the attachment from the My Documents folder? Is it possible that we have not been infected by an email from you? Thanks, Rena -----Original Message----- From: lisa [mailto:lach@prime-online.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:23 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXBASTRO] virus please ready!!!!!!!!!! hi all of you are infected with a virus.....it's a virus that thousands of people have and are getting, and it also brings back the snow white virus......why these people make virus' is mind boggling........anyway, I thought I would tell you how to rid of it. You are in my address book and it has attached itself to your computer via my address book, I got it the same way, I was in someone's address book and gave it to me.........Your virus will not be detected with a virus scan.......here is how I got rid of it, and have included all instructions..........you must email your entire address book and forward this message so that people can clean this out before their computer crashes. I lost all data, most collected over a 5 year period 3 weeks ago and am still devestated over it. Thanks and sorry about the virus but I don't want it comming back to me again.......... Lisa ps there is no virus attached to this email I have gotten rid of it.......... here's what the the tech guy sent me, pretty detailed email......... Lisa, these are the e-mails from friends who also receive the SirCam Virus. There are a few tools you can use especially the Sircam Removal tool, but you still must check your autoexec.bat. The SARC Reference seems to work best. Lisa, 1. If you open the e-mail, it then attaches some file from your 'My Documents' and sends it to everyone in your address book and every contact that might be in your InBox (like forwards from other people). It then buries itself in your registry and hides itself and does the same thing over and over again everytime you start up an '.exe' file. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.h tml This is where I went to get rid of the virus, because I didn't have my viruschecker up to snuff 2. A new Windows E-Mail virus has been reported by members, arriving with the subject line named for the attached file (which contains the virus) and a body which usually consists of three lines. The first and last line are usually: Hi! How are you? and See you later. Thanks The middle line is usually one of the following: I send you this file in order to have your advice I hope you can help me with this file that I send I hope you like the file that I sendo you This is the file with the information that you ask for OR this text could arrive in Spanish. The attached file may appear to be almost any kind of file, but will have a hidden extensions that makes it a Windows Executable. This Virus will likely arrive from someone you know, because it mails itself to everyone in the Outlook address book of an infected computer. Please be extremely wary of all file attachments. The McAfeee Page for this Virus is http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360 3. Unfortunately you can't simply remove the virus by running the virus scan - you have to manually alter your autoexec.bat file and your registry, otherwise the worm stays in your machine. You can get full instructions on the Norton Antivirus site. (This step may also be necessary I hope this gives you the needed information. ........Larry ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

hi all of you are infected with a virus.....it's a virus that thousands of people have and are getting, and it also brings back the snow white virus......why these people make virus' is mind boggling........anyway, I thought I would tell you how to rid of it. You are in my address book and it has attached itself to your computer via my address book, I got it the same way, I was in someone's address book and gave it to me.........Your virus will not be detected with a virus scan.......here is how I got rid of it, and have included all instructions..........you must email your entire address book and forward this message so that people can clean this out before their computer crashes. I lost all data, most collected over a 5 year period 3 weeks ago and am still devestated over it. Thanks and sorry about the virus but I don't want it comming back to me again.......... Lisa ps there is no virus attached to this email I have gotten rid of it.......... here's what the the tech guy sent me, pretty detailed email......... Lisa, these are the e-mails from friends who also receive the SirCam Virus. There are a few tools you can use especially the Sircam Removal tool, but you still must check your autoexec.bat. The SARC Reference seems to work best. Lisa, 1. If you open the e-mail, it then attaches some file from your 'My Documents' and sends it to everyone in your address book and every contact that might be in your InBox (like forwards from other people). It then buries itself in your registry and hides itself and does the same thing over and over again everytime you start up an '.exe' file. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html This is where I went to get rid of the virus, because I didn't have my viruschecker up to snuff 2. A new Windows E-Mail virus has been reported by members, arriving with the subject line named for the attached file (which contains the virus) and a body which usually consists of three lines. The first and last line are usually: Hi! How are you? and See you later. Thanks The middle line is usually one of the following: I send you this file in order to have your advice I hope you can help me with this file that I send I hope you like the file that I sendo you This is the file with the information that you ask for OR this text could arrive in Spanish. The attached file may appear to be almost any kind of file, but will have a hidden extensions that makes it a Windows Executable. This Virus will likely arrive from someone you know, because it mails itself to everyone in the Outlook address book of an infected computer. Please be extremely wary of all file attachments. The McAfeee Page for this Virus is http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360 3. Unfortunately you can't simply remove the virus by running the virus scan - you have to manually alter your autoexec.bat file and your registry, otherwise the worm stays in your machine. You can get full instructions on the Norton Antivirus site. (This step may also be necessary I hope this gives you the needed information. ........Larry

If there is a descendant here of the Olives, I think the line is Print, The Olives that I believe had their barn burnt, anyway, I have some great new information......please contact me. Lisa

Good idea, Tammy. I think I'll try to find a deed or tax record. I'm almost positive I saw that somewhere once, long ago. Thanks so much for all your help and guidance. Rick Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 9:28 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Rick, I went downtown Bastrop today to try and identify the buildings in the picture and I noted a few things. First the intersection isn't the main one (at least not the main one now), but is Main and Spring street near the old Opera House. On the 1950 there is a Piggly Wiggly on the right. That is where the First State Bank is today and is now taller so I don't know if it was added on or if it was rebuilt from scratch. The one other change in the street, using the picture as a guide, was the new building for the Army recruiting station, on the left side, at the next intersection of Main and Chestnut. The 1909 and 1950 pictures are taken from the intersection of Main and Spring, one intersection down from Spring. If you look in the middle of the picture there is what appears to be a traffic light and that is the Chestnut/Main intersection. When you cross the bridge, from Hwy 71, you are on Chestnut with Main being the first intersection you come to. Turning left and going to the next stop sign, which is Spring St, is where the pictures were taken. So I'd say there is a great chance that the building you are looking for is still there. One thing I noticed is that the buildings don't have the normal raised letters with the name of the original owner on the top of the building, except for the Prokop building. I did see the Kesselus building because of a plaque and the Bruno Elzner building because the painted side was still readable. I'm not familiar with the history of the rest of the buildings, though I do have an 1885 insurance map of the town with types of business listed that I hope to get online one day. The buildings all have addresses so I don't know if you have a tax list or deed that shows the number, you can try that way, only if they weren't renumbered along the way. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

Tammy: Thanks for you reply and your interest in our Baylor Family Cemetery. We do have a reunion each year, but have it out at Wimberly, TX., for the descendants of Charles Thompson Baylor, son of George Wythe and Augusta. A few of the other great grand children of George and Augusta join us there. Jane

Hi, My name is Gene Turner, and my father's name was John Oliver Turner. He worked and was trained to be a "tinsmith" by the son of Ed Bastian, the owner of Ed Bastian & Son Tin and Hardware store in Bastrop. When I first went to Bastrop was looking for the marriage license of my mother Claudia Marietta Nash, the daughter of Emma Jane Saxon (Emma's parents died when she was about three, and the Bastians raised her).Emma Jane married a Bastrop County lawman, my grandfather, Junius Fletcher Nash. I found out there that my mother had been married before to a "Fite". I hadn't known about this. Then I found the marriage license John Oliver Turner who married a Belle Osborn 10/28/1906, and I took it to mean that he also had been married before..... I believe my father was named after an associate of his father Vines Turner, John Oliver Cantrell. Both were Baptist ministers. My father was born in Ripley, TN. 1/13/1882 and grew up in Faulkner County AR. I doubt there is a connection, but thought the story would be interesting to you. I did find out a while back that there was indeed 2 John Oliver Turner living in Bastrop at the same time. Gene Turner Corpus Christi, TX.----- Original Message ----- From: W. B. Atkins, Jr. <wbatkins@flash.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > My wife is an old Bastrop girl and she tells me that the store in question is still there. It is located on the northwest corner of the Chestnut/Main intersection. I > believe it has been sub-divided into smaller shops. My wife was a Turner; her uncle, John O. Turner, was the last owner of the business under the name "Turner". Prior > to that it was owned by a man named Holt who is memorialized by a fine monument out in Fairview Cemetery. > > Bill Atkins in Fort Worth > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >

My wife is an old Bastrop girl and she tells me that the store in question is still there. It is located on the northwest corner of the Chestnut/Main intersection. I believe it has been sub-divided into smaller shops. My wife was a Turner; her uncle, John O. Turner, was the last owner of the business under the name "Turner". Prior to that it was owned by a man named Holt who is memorialized by a fine monument out in Fairview Cemetery. Bill Atkins in Fort Worth

Rick, I went downtown Bastrop today to try and identify the buildings in the picture and I noted a few things. First the intersection isn't the main one (at least not the main one now), but is Main and Spring street near the old Opera House. On the 1950 there is a Piggly Wiggly on the right. That is where the First State Bank is today and is now taller so I don't know if it was added on or if it was rebuilt from scratch. The one other change in the street, using the picture as a guide, was the new building for the Army recruiting station, on the left side, at the next intersection of Main and Chestnut. The 1909 and 1950 pictures are taken from the intersection of Main and Spring, one intersection down from Spring. If you look in the middle of the picture there is what appears to be a traffic light and that is the Chestnut/Main intersection. When you cross the bridge, from Hwy 71, you are on Chestnut with Main being the first intersection you come to. Turning left and going to the next stop sign, which is Spring St, is where the pictures were taken. So I'd say there is a great chance that the building you are looking for is still there. One thing I noticed is that the buildings don't have the normal raised letters with the name of the original owner on the top of the building, except for the Prokop building. I did see the Kesselus building because of a plaque and the Bruno Elzner building because the painted side was still readable. I'm not familiar with the history of the rest of the buildings, though I do have an 1885 insurance map of the town with types of business listed that I hope to get online one day. The buildings all have addresses so I don't know if you have a tax list or deed that shows the number, you can try that way, only if they weren't renumbered along the way. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfpage=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName.com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A>

Hi, all. I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There may have been several different buildings during this period but someone once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Shirleen Smith Reese, Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. Tammy Owen Bastrop County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with subscription. <A HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to find new and used genealogy stuff? <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's online marketplace</A> and <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library