Thank you Bill, Sounds like this will be a beneficial research list. Becky Cockrum Researching Cockrum, Moore, Wood, and Powers from the Holland area of Bell County. Bill Bost wrote: > > Howdy All!! > > Responses back to my question about purposes the TXBELL list could serve > have been helpful. You've said: > > o You'd like to do queries and responses on the list, to help with your > genealogy researches... so we'll do that (I'll review the List Welcome > Letter to see what it says now and change it if needed). > > o You've also said you'd like to have Bell County history/genealogy > material put in from time to time, for background, leads, and general > information (I've got some permission-to-include requests out with some > Bell County sources, hoping I can include some of the interesting things > in Bell County history in this list and on the Bell County page). > > o Some of you would like to see something about the historical markers > in Bell County, and we can do that. > > o Also mentioned was finding out about where to look for what kind of > records, of genealogical interest (I'm working on that... I visited the > Belton, Temple, and Killeen Public Libraries, and have asked them for > some listings of what they have relating to Bell County, and whether or > not they'll loan them. Also, the Bell County Museum is interested in a > web presence, but didn't have anyone to work on a page for them, so I've > built a simple one to get them going.. try them after a while at > www.vvm.com/~museum.. but there's nothing there just yet :)...). > > > I have just started the TXBELL mailing list and had not been successful > in doing interactive searches yet at the address Laurel Burns gave, but > keep trying it. > > (Take a look at http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and > let's get it doing something for us!) > > Laurel is right, it is a search of mailing lists, but I've not found > that it indexes into some of the board databases that Surname Helper > searches... so it may be a point of education for me! Maybe you need to > be using both for your searches to get the most benefit. Since I've only > been doing the Bell County page since the second week of February, and > had not ever used mailing lists or boards before TXBELL was set up, I > have a lot to learn about making it a useful tool. I do hope that > discussions will have something to do with Bell County, or genealogy > research relating to Bell County, or resources that can help with Bell > County research. > > Lastly, if you have material to put in the non-Query boards that's for > Bell County people, please post it, or send it to me to post. It seems > that the non-query boards in almost all of the Texas counties I've > browsed have very little (generally none) material in the Deed, Wills, > Pensions, Bible Records, Biographies, and Obituaries Boards, and I'd > think they'd be full of information. Is it too hard to do the postings, > or is a suitable format needed ("What does a good posting look like"?) > > Boy, it's interesting being a newbie listowner! > > Bill Bost > TXBELL Listowner > RootsWeb Sponsor > Bell County Coordinator/webmaster > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com