First, we have also been enjoying Mr. Wyly's posts to the list. We've been learning a lot! We would like to know if there is anyone who would like to contribute stories for us to put up on a specific page. We believe it would be interesting to all who visit the Erath page. We would put a copyright on the page with the submitter's name. We are looking for anyone to volunteer in gathering info specific on the county and the people. We would also like to put up a page of anyone who could do lookups in the books they have. This is based on written permission from the author, if the book is copyrighted. The copyright rules we have to follow for the Erath page are here: http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html We haven't forgotten about the generous offer of the author of the Turnbow cemetery either to do lookups. We just need to get this page created. Anyone who might have suggestions as to what we might add to the page, please send them. We appreciate any input of any kind. We are taking a break on the cemetery indexes until the weather cools down a bit. It is going to be in the 90's this weekend, so we might consider going then. ;-) That is a cool down for what it has been. We could also accept gedcoms to be submitted to the local library. We can't put them on our page, but we can give them to the library, since they recently got computerized and have internet access now. We haven't talked to the director of the library about this yet, but it seems like something that they would be interested in. Our local genealogy meeting is tomorrow night, and we are looking forward to the elections for new officers that will be happening. We will try to keep you posted of any new projects that the society may take on that will affect you doing research in the county. We have a bad habit (more Annette's fault ;-) of starting too many projects at once. We have cemetery indexing, microfilm transcribing, local photo taking, Appeal newspaper, getting local basic info from public library, and some other things that we have yet to get done that we should. There is so much here, living in the county seat, that we have trouble choosing which way to focus our time on to help the most. If anyone is in the county and wants to work on indexing a cemetery, or has a laptop and wants to do some microfilm transcribing with us, or any of the other things, let us know! We'd love the assist, plus the chance to put some faces with the names that we see on this mailing list. We keep saying we're going to put up a mug shot of ourselves on the front page, but we DO want to keep visitors coming in, NOT going out.... hehe Sorry to ramble on. If you write to us, put TXERATH REPLY in the subject line so we can find it in the mire. Thanks for "listening"! Annette and Janice Erath Co., TX USGenWeb Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~txerath/erath.htm