Lots of exciting news today, besides the fact I was stuck in an elevator up around the 23rd floor for a good 20 minutes until Ellen managed to get me rescured. Genealogy Helper magazine wants to feature the Project in its Jan/Feb issue. The November 2006 issue of Internet Genealogy will have an article on the Project entitled "The USGenWeb Project - The Land of the Free". A young man (aged 15), Brad Jencks, received the FGS Youth Genealogy Award for his outstanding contribution to perserving our history. He and his mother made a special trip to the booth because he wanted to meet me and tell me that he won this award because Josh Taylor and the CC of Salt Lake Co, UT site encouraged him to map a cemetary and place it on line at the county site for his Eagle Scout project. To understand the extent of his project visit the Salt Lake county website and click on Cemeteries Bingham. There will be more on this later. There has been so much going on that the time has passed in a whrilwind. People can't say enough good things about the project. The people who so aptly represented the Project on your behalf were: Ellen Pack, CC of MS (Chair of the EC), Tina Vickery, SC of MA & WI, Joy Fisher, Archives & SC of SD, Betsy Mills, SC of AR, Lori Thornton SC of MS, Lela Evans, CC in MS & TX, Scott Fritzgerald, CC TX, Josh Taylor, CC WI, George Waller SC CT, Linda Davenport CC AR and special thanks to Joy's husband Frank Fisher who did whatever needed to be done. All of us paid our own expenses from first to last and feel that every penny we spent was well worth it. To everyone who donated money for the booth and everyone who spent the time and money for the brochures and handouts - I can tell you that for every dollar spent the Project received a hundred dollars worth of wonderful PR Linda Haas Davenport ==== USGENWEB-DISCUSS Mailing List ==== HELP FOR GENEALOGY RESEARCHERS http://www.usgenweb.org/research/index.shtml Be sure to also click the links on the far right under "Help for Researchers" ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 9/1/2006