Bill Bost wrote: > Howdy TXBELL folks! > > Joe Deaver (ancestry@deaver.com) has agreed to be the TXBELL list and Bell > County Genealogy and History web page listowner/webmaster respectively. Over > the next few weeks we'll be transitioning functions from me to Joe, and > there may be some snags along the way. However, Joe has something like three > generations of ancestors from Bell County, and is familiar with the County > and its people, and I think he'll do great. The mailing list change-over > will go fairly quickly, and the Bell County page stuff will follow along > shortly afterwards (the webmaster stuff is in a lot more places, as are the > control pages for the different GenConnect boards). Thanks for the nice introduction, Bill, and thanks for the various welcomes from my fellow subscribers. You may have seen me on here under my eaze.net address during the last few months. I suppose I should say a little about myself. I am 33 years of age, single, and currently living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I have had several years of experience in maintaining listservs and webpages. I have been working on my genealogy for about a year now and have only recently published some of it on the web. Starting about 1870, three generations of my Deaver ancestors lived in the Belton area in Bell County, around Taylor Valley. I have been down to Belton a few times on research trips and found an abundance of information. There are some Deaver descendents still living in the Belton and Temple area. There are still some places to check out and I hope to return soon. Although I have considerable technical experience, it will take me a little while to adjust to doing things the Rootsweb way. Bill has been gradually handing things over and explaining procedures. I'm sure I will be asking questions for a few weeks. I appreciate everyone's patience during this transition. There won't be any immediate changes to the website, but I will do my best to keep the surname list and queries up to date. If anyone has any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to drop me a note! Joe D. Deaver Coordinator-in-training, Bell Co. TX http://ancestry.deaver.com ancestry@deaver.com