Howdy All.. I attended a meeting of the Bell County Sesquicentennial Committee, as an observer, and can tell you there are quite a number of things envisioned for Bell County's 150th birthday year in 2000. I haven't heard back about approval or not for a RootsWeb page for the Committee, but I'm hopeful. Several folks have expressed an interest in contributing time and/or data for the different web pages and Archives Bell County is evolving, and I wanted to review email addresses for current interested people. If you do not see your email address below, and either you sent one, or are now interested, please send one more time... things are busy enough to where I've probably missed it somewhere! If I need your snail mail address please email me OFF-LIST so it doesn't go to the archiver (I've already done that once by mistake for someone and don't want to repeat that error). (This same message is going to some other groups as well.) Current Volunteers for WEB2000 "stuff" bartlett@vvm.com (Need snail mail address) leburns@mosquitonet (Address - OK) johng@ns.vvm.com (Address - OK) Bjryder@aol.com (Address- OK) Bill Bost Bell County Coordinator (TexasGenWeb) TXBELL Listowner Listed below are the kinds of things the genealogy Archives are interested in: Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans... schedules) State Census Vital Records 1.marriage 2.birth 3.death 4.divorce (or under court?) Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....) Church records (members lists, baptisms, burials...) Bible Records Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...) Prison Records Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...) 1.Revolutionary 2.Civil War 3.Indian Wars 4.Mexican 5.Spanish-American 6.War of 1812 7.WWI 8.WWII 9.Korean 10.Viet Nam 11.Persian Gulf Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records...) Tax Records (land, property, state, federal, local....) Local Histories Local Directories (phone books, old county and city directories....) Occupational (Depends on item) (Mining inspector's reports, Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....) Educational (Depends on item) (school histories, newsletters, school census, yearbooks) Cemeteries Deeds/grants Misc (Depends on item) Newspapers/obits Ship Lists Tax lists Wills _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com