Well this month has been a very busy month here at the Waupaca County site,with celebrating my one year anniversary as the County Coordinator. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the researcherswho submitted information to be posted during the celebration month and wantto invite you to continue to submit information and invite those of you who have not done so, to join in with sharing your information. Thanks to Jim Waid, Patti Wenham, Bev Gininow, Cathy Ziereis, Nancy Silkey, Jean Spiegelberg, Terry Stewart, Ted, Geri Trinrud and Wayne and Alta Guyant. Who knows - that lost cousin may be out there looking for you! With the holidays around the corner I will be taking the remainder of December away from the website. I will be continuing the "behind the scenes"work and always here to answer questions via email. I want to wish you alla very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hope your holiday season is asafe one! This is such a wonderful time to be sharing with our families. Here is an overview of the additions made this month on the site: American Indian Research - A photo and information on an Indian arrowhead collection-collected around the Embarrass area. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/waupindian.htm Biography Records - A total of 232 biographies were added this month bringing the complete total to 774. Way to go Patti and Bev. The researchers of Waupaca County are Very Thankful for your hard work. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WaupacaBios Births of Waupaca County - New births were added to the surname beginning with the letter R. And the transcription of births for the surnames beginning with the letter Y and Z were completed from the Wisconsin Birth Pre1907 Index. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Vitals/waupbirtha.htm Cemeteries - Photos of headstones were added to the following cemeteries. Rath family headstones to the Hobart Cemetery, Roylaton; Sheldon family headstones to the Riverside Cemetery, Embarrass and Ottormark, Stewart and Chamber family headstones were added to the Oakwood Cemetery, Weyauwega. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Cemmisc/waupcem.htm Family and Folk Fotos - Family photos were added from the following families: Stewart, Axtell, Rock, Poston, Johnson, Phillips, Graham, Williams, Ballard, Colby, Ranko, Schumacher, Moore and Mork http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/FamilyandFolk/FamFolkIndex.htm Marriages of Waupaca County - New marriages were added to the surname beginning with the letter F, R and S. Also the transcription of the First 100 Marriages of Waupaca County was added. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Vitals/waupmarra.htm Military - The transription of the llist of Soliders, Sailors and Marines of Waupaca County who died during WWI was added. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Military/waupmilitary.htm News Articles From The Past - Articles were added to the following years: 1876, 1877, 1889, 1890 and 1891. Also new pages for the years 1886 and 1887 were added. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/News/waupnewsarticles.htm Obituaries - 110 obituaries were added this month most from the late 1800's. This brings the total to 295 obituaries. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WaupacaObits Waupaca Area Genealogy Society - A page for the information on this society was added. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/WAGS/WAGS.htm Waupaca County Poor House and Farm - An article on the 1895 fire of the Poor House added. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/wauppoor.htm See you in the New Year! Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com