In a message dated 99-01-31 03:57:02 EST, you write: << ------------------- X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:36:24 EST From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Members..Update Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi, Everyone: There are currently 194 "members".... subscribers to the WVMARSHA Mailing List. (I notice that some of you are on both the "mail mode" AND the "digest mode" lists...???) Remember that I would like the Mailing List to BE our Virtual Genealogy Society and I hope all members will participate in some way. Please send a message of introduction...even if you have already done so....... You can tell whatever you want to about yourself but please include the Marshall County families you are related to and/or researching. If you have something you would like to share, such as a genealogy file, a will, or whatever, just send it to me. I am still looking for Revolutionary War info and all things military (Remember that is just my "starter" page!)... I would like more birth & death records...more marriages from the courthouse... AND, the elusive Riverview cemetery list that may be available at the Historical Society. One more thing about the genealogy text files.... Some of you have written to say that you don't want to send yours because it doesn't compare to the voluminous files submitted by Vernon Anderson. Granted, his are a hard act to follow, but PLEASE send yours. In addition to helping others, your file may result in new information for yourself. (I have a PEARL file that is skeletal compared to Vernon's but I am going to publish it in hopes of GETTING more information.) On the Bulletin Board, I have started a list of things to buy, sell or trade. For example, I would like to buy the "History of the Panhandle", which is apparently out of print now, according to Heritage Books.. I would also like to buy the "History of Marshall County" that was published by the Historical Society (NOT the Powell book..) The information about the "Non-Virtual Get-together" proposed for May 14 or 15th will be updated as needed on the page <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmarsha/get.htm">A Non-Virtual Get- together. </A> If you are planning to attend, please state your preference for date and restaurant. (The majority will prevail.) Daniele Bougher is going to make any necessary arrangements, depending on the number of people interested in attending. The 1870 & 1880 censuses should be completed within the next couple months. Yesterday, I copied the last districts from the microfilm and will be mailing them to the volunteers who are doing the typing. Kay L. Mason is doing ALL of the 1880 census, which is a nightmare of a job. She also did a district of the 1870... Karen Hucko is working on her own nightmare, the 1870 census ....She now has some help in the persons of Beverly Todd of Texas and Garry Foster of Florida. (THANKS TO ALL!!) I don't want to monopolize this list by being the only one who sends messages!!! I would like to hear from the 194 members............ Finally, .....The motto for my genealogy pages, "A service not a business...." originated from the words of my sister, Lori Cunningham Whitwam, of Otsego, MN. Thanks. Linda Cunningham Fluharty Marshall, Pleasants, Calhoun Counties, WVGenWeb Rootsweb Listowner, WVMARSHA, WVPLEASA, WVCALHOU >>