Minnie Pitts Champ wrote: > > MPaul62436@aol.com wrote: > > > > I am interested in purchasing the book re history of Collin County. Let me > > know how to go about purchase. > > > > Thanks - Mimi > > TO ALL: > > Because of your interest in the reprint of the Stambaugh book on Collin > County, I thought I would contact you about the books Mother and I have > published on Collin County since the mid-1970s. She died in 1983 but I am > carrying on her publishing work. > > I am collecting material for Volume III, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FAMILIES and am > attaching that file also. Please contact me about your Collin County > families. > > Also have a call out for material for COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, EARLY SCHOOLS. Please > go through your pictures to see if you have one of a school in Collin County > from the beginning (one room) schools up through 1939. Looking for pictures, > stories about schools, their teachers, and students. Please help me. > > Please check out my website: "www.collincountybooks.com" >*********************************************************************************** COLLIN COUNTY BOOKS COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FAMILIES Original Book Winner of 1995 GRAND PRIZE BOOK AWARD by the Texas State Genealogical Society Published in 1994 in memory of my mother, Alice Ellison Pitts, who had begun the book in 1982, Collin County, Texas, Families, contains 548 family stories and over 330 pictures. Contains family stories of early immigrant Collin County ancestors were written by present day descendants. Surname index of thousands of Collin County relatives, many of whom lived in the area before the County was formed in 1846. Hardback book, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2," coffee-table size. Collector's edition. Inside covers are 1881 Collin County survey plat map. Front cover, Collin County courthouse ca 1910. Mail: $ 69.00 Pick up: $61.00 COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FAMILIES, Volume II Published in 1998 and winner of the 1999 Writing Award for Family Histories Second Place by the Texas State Genealogical Society. It contains 366 individual family stories and more than 325 pictures, all submitted by descendants. Volume II has a index of every surname mentioned in the book and a picture section. A Collector's edition hard-back book, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" in size, it will make a great coffee-table addition and an easy-read of the County's early history. Volume II was compiled in response to the interest expressed by the many families who were not included in the Original Volume. The purpose is to bring together as many additional Collin County family stories and pictures as possible. Mail: $ 68.00 Pick up: $60.00 COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS VOLS. I & II Published by Alice Ellison Pitts in 1975 & 1978. COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, Volume I, contains 112 public and private cemeteries with surname index of over 35,000 surnames of Collin County people. Alphabetical list of cemeteries with page & map keys. Mail: $ 58.50 Pick up: $49.50 [Volume II contains the 35 additional public & private cemeteries. Abstracted obituaries for 19974-75-76 from The McKinney Courier Gazette & Sherman Democrat. 161 Pages. OUT OF STOCK; TO BE REPRINTED IN 2000.] COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, MARRIAGES 1846 - 1888 Books I - IV of original Collin County Marriage Records, 161 pages. Each time period is arranged alphabetical by groom with an index of brides plus full-name surname index. Sold in 3-ring vinyl notebook. Mailed: $ 53.00 Picked up: $ 45.00 MINNIE PITTS CHAMP email "mchamp@airmail.net" 3000 Teal Lane webpage: http://www.collincountybooks.com" McKinney, Texas 75070 972/562-6543