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From: "Steve Bemrich" <>
Subject: [OKGEN ] A North Central Arkansas Family Tree Farm
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:02:58 -0600


Well.. its taken me over two months to finish my rehosting. A combination of
a small attack of a disease I should be ashamed of getting at my advanced
age (ok.. mono at 45 for the curious).. and getting the machine and
operating system set up just so (know how many various operatiing systems
there are? and web servers? and ... ) Hours of playing with this and that..
trying to find the BEST software (and setteling for the CHEAPEST BEST
*grin*) went into figuring out how to put the world on my desktop, instead
of a big impersonal out-of-my-control computer downtown at Internet
America... and I began to despair.. BUT!..

My site, which WAS and will continue an outdated ghost for a while at
http://www.cyberramp.com/~srb/gen/reevbakr.htm has now been moved to
http://209.196.125.11 . This location now hosts both my "A North Central
Arkansas Family Tree Farm" and another site, which someone slipped in my bag
when i wasn't looking .. "The Everett Brain Trust Home Page", which details
the collected research of several dedicated lunatics descended from the
Everett family of Marion county and their kindred. These two pages are
complimentary, and should both be of interest to researchers in the area.
Running on a 233MMX machine with 64 Meg of memory and 9 Gig of hard disk
space, running the wonderful and free Omni HHTP Daemon as a web server, we
are hopefully able to handle the random researches of all of you.

For those who are not familiar with my site, a quick overview. The North
Central Arkanas et.al. is a collection of family trees, pictures, links, and
my longwindedness concerning families in the North Central Arkansas area
(primarily Marion, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren, and Cleburne but I'm
flexible!). Core families include the Reeves, Bakers, Harness, Grinder,
Barnetts, Everett, and Kester. (Many of these are also reflected on the
Everett page). The site is intended more as a REGIONAL research page, rather
than focusing on one family or one locality.

We have 13,000 names in hundreds of family groups listed in the Omnibus
Surname Index. There are pictures.. and room for MANY more now that we are
on my own machine and have OODLES (lord, did i use that word?) of space.
There is a copy of some of the Reeves Bible pages.. the account of their
first travel to north Arkansas.. One of my favorites, and one that has
gotten a number of comments (mostly giggles) from visitors is the "Picking
Up Chicks at the Family Reunion" page.. outlining the close and multiple
connections between a number of the area families, showing that in the mid
1800s, shopping for a bride often left one with a very small selection!

Now, while the site is aimed at Arkansas familes.. the same database
contains my Damned Yankee kin too.. My French and Irish Immigrants to
Illinois and Ohio.. My trains of Illini who go back to revolutionary
Virginia.. and my Wifes true Yankees, from the very early days of
Massachusetts.. they didnt come with the Pilgrims.. they waited till the
early folks built hotels before they showed up!!! Corliss, Stevens, Ryan,
Gilligan, and Willards, this bunch tend to even out and balance the family
tree! Already I have found kinfolk on both sides of "The Late
Unpleasantness" who actually fought literally on opposite sides through the
long campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

New to the page are a guestbook, where you can poke fun at me and make
suggestions "in person" rather than having to email, and a new Forum area
for posting queries, information, and responses. These are new "adware"
software I found, but hopefully the ads wont be too obtrusive. They bring
with them a link to the Alta VIsta search engine as well, so you can laung a
search directly from there. There is also a calendar, which will be brought
online soon to allow folks to let me know about family reunions, decoration
days, and the like.

Please drop in.. no telling WHO you might find! These families fanned into
Arkansas from Virginia, NC, Tennessee, and other points east, and thence to
Texas, Oklahoma, and from the recent volume of inquiries most seem to have
ended up in California! Take a peek.. make a suggestion.. and if you find
someone.. and can expand our knowledge base.. please do let me know! I am
always eager to get fresh blood in the table.. even 150 years dead! GEDCOMS
and FTM files welcome! I am even in the process of setting up an FTP server
to all easier transfer to the site. Bookmark it, and visit often.. because
it will be updated MUCH more often now that I can fix things in 10 minutes
rather than 8 hours!

Welcome back to old friends.. and welcome home to new ones!

Steve Bemrich
Chief Forester and Webmaster,
Head Cook and Bottle Washer
Descendant of the Kesters, Everetts, Johnsons, Pierces, and Reeves.

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