Howdy Listers!! A newish resource page for Bell County, that has lots of new features available..and in development, is at: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Bell/ It's WELL worth bookmarking, for future use. I've just added a RootsWeb search engine to the TXBELL, BCHC, and WBGS web pages, which will take a few days to index. Once that's done, you should be able to do searches on all the pages of information being put on these web sites! Also, I've added more photos to the BCHC photo album, mainly of cemeteries (that was my original interest point in Bell County). There are some about which I'm unsure as to identity. Some of you may know. There's been a Tiger Mapping Service (US Gov) map added to the TXBELL web page you may like to try. It may need tweaking (as all areas of the different pages do) but it might get you going with something you can use for Bell County. New entries for Salado from Chapter XV of the Story of Bell County have been added to the BCHC Archives pages, with more still to be placed there. It will probably load slowly (as will the BCHC Album page) due to size. I'll sort out more about how to better organize the pages for quicker display.... later. I hope you can use some or all of the information. MaryAnn Bartlett is doing virtually 100% of the Story of Bell County entries, and you'll see her name on almost all of the current series of Biography posts to the Biography Board. Oh, yes.. boards... someone asked what they were. The non-query Boards are for the posting of information by anyone who has Bell County-relevant material. For Bell County, those are the following: Biographies Board, Obituaries Board, Wills Board, Pensions Board, Bible Records Board, and Deeds Board. These are NOT for posting questions about ancestors on!! I will delete them, per RootsWeb guidelines. The board to use for questions is the Query Board, which IS for queries. There is a search engine that picks up surnames from the different boards and indexes them into a Surname Helper search base on which you can search. That's why putting surnames into the surnames field of a post is not helpful, as someone might search for a surname you show there (that isn't actually in your query text) and click on a search results list, only to find you didn't really have (surname) info there... very irritating and frustrating. It's why, time permitting, I edit posts to both be sure Bell County is referenced in your posts, and that non-query-relevant surnames are edited out of your post surname field. Lots of info.. but perhaps these new features will work for you... after all, the BCHC and WBGS sites didn't exist before February this year, and the Bell County pages were adoptable, and this TXBELL list didn't exist either! Bill Bost Listowner BCHC webmaster WBGS webmaste Museum webmaster Bell County coordinator _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com