March 2000

Cass County, TXGenWeb

Cass County, TXGenWeb is looking for volunteers to transcribe records for the on-line archives. Volunteers should contact <[email protected]> https://sites.rootsweb.com/~txcass/

Cass Co. Genealogical Society

Meetings are the second Tuesday of each month. For more information on time and place please contact Patsy Livingston at [email protected] or Dana Thomas at <[email protected]>. Web page:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~danasite/CCGS/

Helpers

Publicity Directors:

Allen Muckleroy <[email protected]>

and Jannice Perser <[email protected]>

Query Director: Vacant

Corresponding Director:

Vikki Muckleroy <[email protected]>

Calling Director: Vacant

To volunteer for a vacant position please see Dana

CD-ROM Census Project

20 people are needed to commit for the project. At present we need 1 more. All those who commit $125.00 will received CD-ROMS with Cass County Census files for 1850-1920. These are actual images of the original census records. They are great resources. Contact Dana to commit to $125.00 for the complete set. Only 20 sets will be available so commit now to reserve your set.

Queries

See Dana after the meeting if you'd like to answer any of these queries.

Surnames: Knighton, Payne, Davidson, Crawford, Adams, Jones, Graham, Allen, Bruce, Beasley, Vaughan

Places: Daingerfield, Marion County, Calaboose in Jefferson

Misc: Reconstruction Days of Davis County; Knights of the Rising Sun; Civil War Units of Cass

URLs of the month

www.copernic.com

www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/afridgen

www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/blackstudies/blackstd.html

www.nara.gov/regional/boston.html

www.nara.gov/regional/atlanta.html

www.nara.gov/regional/stlouis.html

www.archives.ca

www.kst.dit.ie/nat-arch

www.pro.gov.uk

Tip of the month

World Factbook Master Home Page: www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

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