Hope you all are having a great weekend. The weather is just perfect for us to get out and do all those things that people do on holiday weekends! Hope you are enjoying it too! Here's what was happening around the Altoona area from 30 October 1941 in the Altoona Tribune" Mrs. H. Stark, Rt. 4, Eau Claire entertained her Royal Rummy Club Wednesday evening. Mill Elda Garvey of St. Paul is visiting friends and relatives in Altoona. Mrs. Claude Hayden, Lynn Ave., entertained a group of relatives Sunday. Those present were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hawkins of Baraboo, her brothers and wives, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Hawkins, and family of Baraboo; Mr. and Mrs. Bert and Harold Hawkins of River Falls, the occasion being the birthdays of Mrs. Hayden and her brother, Claire, and Bert Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Byers of Kansas City, MO., were guests at the W.T. Duganne home, Lynn Ave. for several days last week. Mrs. A. Boetcher and daughter, Betty, Garfield Ave., are visiting the former's son, Private Cadwell Boetcher, from the Sixth Corps Area headquarters in Chicago. They plan to return Friday. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Sounds like everybody were busy beavers back in the good old days. The folks at GenConnect were busy beavers last night. They have the new system up and running after working for 8 solid hours during the middle of the night. List of new GenConnect Features: Visitor Toys: ------------------- Separate entry fields for subject and surnames ..... allows more descriptive subjects (non-surname words won't matter) Main page of each board displays the list of surnames for each query, in addition to the subject .... allows for more surnames to be entered 'Print' option now expanded to include the entire thread (user's option) Surname page will be auto-generated, and auto-updated weekly (more frequently with admin intervention), and will now be alphabetized and hotlinked to the query in which it appears. Cookie support expanded to include "date ranges". Faster, sleeker search engine. Multiple-word surnames supported - including the capability of searching for them. New search options added to the Global Search ..... soundex (enhanced over previous version), partial word match, whole word match, wildcard searching." To see what GenConnect is all about, visit our page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wieaucla/ecgenconnect.htm Take a look at some of the new features when you get the chance. Better yet, now would be a great time for you to send in that obituary or biography that you've been thinking about adding! Just mailto:[email protected] -- Nance