Tammy - Ooops - guess I should have clarified... I'm in San Antonio, and was just curious how I could help, but guess I need to start here with Bexar County. I wouldn't mind to work on Bastrop info but would need someone to scan and send me the pages. If that's possible, then I'd be happy to help. Otherwise, guess I'll stick to stuff here in SA. On a side note, my sister and I will be visiting your library on Saturday 12/9 to sift through the newspapers and microfilm for anything regarding Ellen Jane Williams/Perkins/Clardy/Perkins and her son Ernest D Williams. Keep your fingers crossed that we find something! Thanks for the info... Dena --- Bastropcc@aol.com wrote: > For those that have time and want to help getting > Bastrop County information > online here are a few suggestions. > The 1860 census is online but only in images. This > makes using a search > engine impossible. If you want to transcribe these, > you can start with the > index that is online, fill in the rest of the family > information and the > typed file can be sent to the rootsweb archives or > the census project and > therefore searchable. > Newspaper pages are also online in images. You can > type some of the pages > up, save it using the date of the page, and it can > be put on the page in the > place of the image and to the archives to be > searchable. > Online images for the 1920 census are on > www.ancestry.com if you have a > subscription, with more years to come this next > year. There are also cd's > with census images on them that you can purchase. > This way you can > transcribe from home. > I go to the library, print out the images from > microfilm, then scan them. > The only problem with that is it takes 3 prints to > make a page, costing 30 > cents to get a page of the census. > There were so many travelers during the early years > that someone may be > looking for someone that was here and captured on > the census but until it is > transcribed, they can't be found using the rootsweb > search engines. > And then there are the commissioners court records > that are in image form > also. > So, there is lots to do. The images are nice but > hard to read and it takes > longer to find a name or place, not being able to > use the browser's find > feature. > I would suggest that if someone wants to transcribe > some of these documents, > just let us know so there won't be duplicate work > efforts. If you Dena and > Lisa want to work on a project together or with > others, then the complete > project can be done faster. And thank you!! > > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator > Bastropcc@aol.com > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > http://hometown.aol.com/bastropcc/myhomepage/family.html > (new site) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html > > > ==== 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) > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of > family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/