I am receiving [TXWISE] emails From:  txwise@rootsweb.com  and  txwise-l@rootsweb.com   How do we "post"? Thanks: Richard Foster Fort Worth richardfostersemail@yahoo.com

Sorry about that. I had no idea that that old WebFire site was still up. I haven't used it in several years. ???? Those funeral records are now listed at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drycreek/funeral_records.htm Soon we will have links to images of the older (over 25 years old) funeral records online, and we will be moving all of our Wise County pages to WiseCountyTexas.info Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary REED" <txnanbel@sbcglobal.net> To: <txwise-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:22 PM Subject: [TXWISE] Wise CountyFuneral Home Records??????? > Hello > I ran on to a web site that this is the address to, > can not get into it to get the information mailed to me, > Could you please tell me where this has been moved to and who I can > contact to get the information from the records????? > http://www.wf.net/~drycreek/funeral_home_records > Thanks > Mary Reed > txnanbel@sbcglobal.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Mary, there is a link on the first page of the Wise County TX genweb site to Funeral Home Records. Wise County funeral home records can be found at: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drycreek/funeral_records.htm Hope this helps! Sheryl McNeely Shaw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary REED" <txnanbel@sbcglobal.net> To: <txwise-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:22 PM Subject: [TXWISE] Wise CountyFuneral Home Records??????? > Hello > I ran on to a web site that this is the address to, > can not get into it to get the information mailed to me, > Could you please tell me where this has been moved to and who I can > contact to get the information from the records????? > http://www.wf.net/~drycreek/funeral_home_records > Thanks > Mary Reed > txnanbel@sbcglobal.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello I ran on to a web site that this is the address to, can not get into it to get the information mailed to me, Could you please tell me where this has been moved to and who I can contact to get the information from the records????? http://www.wf.net/~drycreek/funeral_home_records Thanks Mary Reed txnanbel@sbcglobal.net

LaDarla has just finished the names index for the 1962 'Bridgeport Index' newspaper pages online. Check page http://www.wisecountytexas.info/bridgeportindex/1962-names.htm We also have put all of the pages for several more years online. We have several more photographed, and will get them on there soon. Lots more pictures and indexing to do! Sue

I guess I missed something............ What is the big project? Thnaks. -----Original Message----- From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pat Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:20 PM To: txwise@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! The Big project is great, had no problem getting to it. Thanks Pat Blanton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The Big project is great, had no problem getting to it. Thanks Pat Blanton

Sue, I must say I was surprised at your description of your not-so-high-tech method for I would have thought otherwise. The images came in very clear and straight enough for my thinking you had a high-tech setup. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. Shirley in TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Tackel" <suetackel@embarqmail.com> To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very 'high > teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod that > sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', bright > bulbs. > Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. > We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the wrinkles > wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. > The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of each > picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the > picture. > It's hard to get them perfectly straight. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> > To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > >> >> This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow to me >> but >> I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the >> pictures >> did stay large when you clicked them. >> >> Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Sue Tackel >> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM >> To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! >> >> >> LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport >> Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing >> of >> >> names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) >> >> Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' >> for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds >> things for us in the old bank building. >> >> Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links >> work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? >> http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Actually the main problem I am having is my particular tripod "rig" allows a bit too much movement of the camera part. If my poodle bumps it I have to readjust to be sure the picture is still going to be straight. Even though I have marks on the cardboard "top" of the table, the camera position has moved just a bit off the perfect. Need a big copytable with all this mounted in a fixed position. Oh, well, it "mostly" works pretty well. La Darla In a message dated 2/20/2009 4:45:30 P.M. Central Standard Time, pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net writes: You might try constructing a cardboard border to put the corners in and then give yourself a little leeway on the edges (i.e. have the photo an inch larger than the border of the page and that might speed you up some. David **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

Sue, You might try constructing a cardboard border to put the corners in and then give yourself a little leeway on the edges (i.e. have the photo an inch larger than the border of the page and that might speed you up some. David On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Sue Tackel wrote: > Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very > 'high > teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod > that > sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', > bright bulbs. > Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. > We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the > wrinkles > wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. > The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of > each > picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the > picture. > It's hard to get them perfectly straight. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> > To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > >> >> This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow >> to me >> but >> I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the >> pictures >> did stay large when you clicked them. >> >> Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Sue Tackel >> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM >> To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! >> >> >> LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old >> 'Bridgeport >> Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the >> indexing >> of >> >> names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) >> >> Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport >> Index' >> for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who >> finds >> things for us in the old bank building. >> >> Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the >> links >> work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? >> http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very 'high teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod that sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', bright bulbs. Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the wrinkles wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of each picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the picture. It's hard to get them perfectly straight. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow to me > but > I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the > pictures > did stay large when you clicked them. > > Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Sue Tackel > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM > To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > > LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport > Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing > of > > names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) > > Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' > for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds > things for us in the old bank building. > > Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links > work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? > http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Sue, The newspaper clips are great. Very clear and can be enlarged. Thank you for your tremendous work in Wise county Tommye O'Shields McLemore

The recent message " Law enforcement heroes ", made me think of the following booklet and some of the stories in it. I hope of some interest. Pieces and parts of short stories from the booklet " The Manns From Tennesse To Texas ". xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx William (Bill) Mann born March 8, 1854. In 1884 Mr. Mann was chosen by his fellow citizens to be their sheriff. For two terms he gave his county his best ability.The County in all of her list of good sheriffs has not has one, so old timers say, that did more for county than W. J. Mann, the sheriff who knew no quailing before men who had commited murder, and theatened to shoot his eyes out if ever freed. A criminail was a criminal in his dictionary and no one beter than the other. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Just last week his son, who is now sheriff, had raided the dive of bootleggers, some friends came to Bill Mann and said, "Lee is beating himself for a second term", Bill answered, I had rather my son would do his duty two years than be sheriff a life time and not do his duty". xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx One day after "tanking up" in a saloon they fell asleep under a cottonwood tree up above Henrietta. The Texas Rangers and Bill Mann snuck up on the sleepoing brouthers and caught them. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In the fall of 1886 a man and his wife with three children drove up on the public square in Decatur in a covered wagon. They were out of food and the man asked the merchant to sell him a sack f flour and as soon as he found work he would pay for it. The merchant refused to sell him a sack of flour so the man deliberatly picked up the sack of flour and walked out of the store, put it in his wagon and drove off telling the merchent he would pay for it as soon as he found work. The merchent made a complaint to the sheriff (Bill Mann) so father got on his horse and followed the man and overtook him. He had struck camp and the woman was preparing bread out of the flour and the little children were so hungry they would not wait for the bread to cook and were eating the dough. So father told the man that he would pay for the flour and when he found work he wold pay him. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The exodus to Texas began with the Woodys. Jane (Woody) Farmer was the earliest arrival in Texas and met her brother William Woody when he arrived in Fannin Co., Texas. William Woody married Elizabeth Farmer in January 1846 and six weeks after thier first son was born in November they started out for Texas, walking! They left with homemade hightop shoes, a gun, a quilt and a skillet and were in Fannin Co., Texas six months later! (My comment "tough people, man and woman) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Manns and the Woodys moved to Ft. Worth. In the fall of 1853 Sam Woody Jr. James Mann and Ben Crew explored up the west fork of the Trinity river into Wise County. At the same time Samual Woody and others explored into what is now Parker County. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mary "Pop" Mann Married Thomas Newton McCright in 1850. In the floor of the log cabin was a hole (a celler idea) under the floor where the children were put when they feared the indians were near and grandmother would stand guard at the door with her gun. Granpa was captured by the Nortern solders and taken to Chicago and died of pneumonia. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Bringing our history and people alive. Take Care. Michael Woody ____________________________________________________________ Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval today http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYVxwh8nFQOl7Vs9M8NIuVSbHIcwCtTYpFHzuuSK4JsPXkE1Kq0yA4/

This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow to me but I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the pictures did stay large when you clicked them. Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers -----Original Message----- From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sue Tackel Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing of names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds things for us in the old bank building. Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sue and LaDarla, this is GREAT! I am enjoying looking at pictures of people I haven't seen in years. The pictures and articles are fun to read but seeing the ads also bring memories flooding back! I had forgotten about the "Shootin Blind" column, too! The pages load fast for me and are working fine. Thanks so much for another job well done. Just when I think that Wise County site couldn't possible be better - another fantastic project appears! Sheryl McNeely Shaw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Tackel" <suetackel@embarqmail.com> To: <TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport > Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing > of > names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) > > Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' > for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds > things for us in the old bank building. > > Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links > work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? > http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

The downloads are great. The news from 1963 brings back memories. One picture is of my deceased husband in the Natural Gas group and another of an old classmate, Sandra Paschall. She is also deceased. Great work Sue and LaDarla. I love the photo of the Bridgeport School up until 1902. I did not recall seeing that one before. Edna Wood

works great! occasionally jumps to whole page view, but not irritating. first rattle out of the box, i got to see a picture of uncle ben albritton working on the dam. neato! Bill Shoemaker, Site Superintendent Banks Brothers Construction wdspeedbump@msn.com cell:281-638-4983 fax: 281-391-6849 > From: suetackel@embarqmail.com > To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:01:46 -0600 > Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport > Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing of > names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) > > Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' > for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds > things for us in the old bank building. > > Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links > work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? > http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Sue, They are beautiful! Thank you for all your hard work. If I could 'help you from afar' I would be happy to! Margaret Burns Mollick mmspirit@mac.com

LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing of names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds things for us in the old bank building. Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm

La Darla and Sue, The project looks great. The links that I tried worked well. The pictures l-o-a-d, but at the usual rate for such. I wasn't waiting forever. The indexing is great. I'm not sure what you meant by making the pictures stay large, but I was able to enlarge them and then move around to see what was in the rest of the page. The pages were easily read once enlarged.. I am currently involved in an obituary transcription project for Tishomingo County, Mississippi - that's where my Loveless, Williams, Thompson, and May families lived before coming to Texas and ending up in Wise County. I live in California; they send me images, I transcribe them, and send the transcriptions back.  Because of the work I have done on the transcriptions for that project, I really do understand all that goes into such a project and appreciate the work you have done on the Wise County project and the beauty that is shown in the end product. Thanks and congratulations! Martha in California   On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:01:46 PM, "Sue Tackel" <suetackel@embarqmail.com> wrote: Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links  work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm  --  Martha  Genealogy - So many ancestors...so little time!