H.R.5157 provided funds to preserve and make available to the public some 1.3 million pages of records from the Freedmen's Bureau. More info at http://www.rootsource.com/freedmen.htm

As you've probably noticed, I have posted several sketches from John House's "Pioneers of Jackson Co" on the GenConnect Bios board, and those are automatically gatewaryed to this list. Several people have written requesting info on other families, and it seems most time efficient to post the sketches of the people you are interested in. So if you will tell me what family name or the area of Jackson county you are interested in, I'll see what is in the book and post it. Betty