Bobbie or anyone that knows: Does Fort Worth, or Waco, or Weatherford or Granbury have a good collection of these Goodspeed books? Thanks, Lynda ---------- > From: CasieI <casieI@email.msn.com> > To: TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXCORYEL] book > Date: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:25 AM > > Bobbie, I can't believe the number of people who have not been to a good Genealogy > Library. Every Library in every major city has a Genealogy Section. One or more of > Goodspeed Histories are in most libraries. Not only do these Biographical sketches > pertain to people from Milam, Bell and Coryell but there are Goodspeed Histories > dealing with other areas of Texas. And....the same were printed for other States. > Arkansas is a good one. Arkansas is divided by Geographical area and then by > counties. Tennessee and other states. Not all states have these histories but some > do. These books are a great resource for genealogical research. Especially in > states where printed records are scarce. > > Cheers > Cassie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bobbie Ross <bwross@htcomp.net> > To: TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com <TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 5:05 PM > Subject: [TXCORYEL] book > > > >Dear List Members, There is an effort underway to encourage the > >republishing of a book that was put out by Lewis Publishing Co. in 1893 in > >which people could put in bios of themselves. it was "McLennan, Falls, Bell > >and Coryell Counties, Texas". A few of these can be found in libraries > >scattered around the central Texas area. I have been asked to check out the > >interest among people who are interested in Coryell County, so let me know > >if this would be of interest to you. > >Bobbie Ross, county co-ordinator for Coryell County, Texas > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcoryel/ > > > > > >