Fellow WOOD/WOODS researchers, For anyone interested, the information below which concerns the WOOD-WOODS FAMILY MAGAZINE was found at the following web site: <http://web.dbtech.net/~hwood/wpc.html> Someone said earlier, the Publisher, Harold WOOD reportedly died of cancer last year. It appears that the info. on the website has not been updated since late 1998. I attempted to contact the phone numbers listed as well as through Directory Assistance for a new listing without success. WOOD PUBLISHING CO., L.L.C. Thomas Harold Wood, Publisher 2514 Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401 (205) 752-5812, 752-5220, Fax 752-5220, E-mail hwood@dbtech.net The Wood-Woods Family Magazine, Volume XXI, will be published as a quarterly issue beginning January, 1999. The issues contain approximately 50 pages each plus name indexes. Annual subscription is $30. Queries are published for subscribers free as are ahnentafel lists of direct ancestors and other pertinent WOOD and WOODS data. The magazine is not dedicated to any specific family or area, but is predominantly concerned with early American WOOD/WOODS individuals, their origins, ancestors and families. The pre-cursor to the WWFM was Katie-Prince Ward Esker's Wood-Woods Exchange, begun in 1947 as a quarterly publication when Mrs. Esker was with the USDAR in Washington, DC. She continued its publication for eight volumes through 1958 when she returned to her hometown of Starkville, Mississippi. The content of these eight volumes contained some of the earliest and most difficult to find records of the WOOD and WOODS families in early America. Mrs. Esker graciously gave exclusive permission to the publisher of The Wood-Woods Family Magazine to reprint her publications before her death. The eight volumes of the Wood-Woods Exchange have been reprinted and are available as are all 20 volumes of The Wood-Woods Family Magazine. The combined 28 volumes contain approximately 5,000 pages plus indexes. Computer digitizing is in process at the present time. The completed project will include a database of all names and may be searched for the publication, volume and page numbers references of all names. A little over 30% of the names are either WOOD or WOODS while the balance are names other than WOOD or WOODS. The entire names database of over a million one hundred thousand references will be published as will the 5,000 pages of the two publications to CD-Rom discs and offered for sale to the public in the near future. Watch this page for availability. Of course, our other primary project involves digitizing the early handwritten records from the Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama courthouse. Some are available at present.