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From: "Bill Bost" <>
Subject: [TXBELL-L] List Update
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 17:50:17 CST


Howdy All!!

Responses back to my question about purposes the TXBELL list could serve
have been helpful. You've said:

o You'd like to do queries and responses on the list, to help with your
genealogy researches... so we'll do that (I'll review the List Welcome
Letter to see what it says now and change it if needed).

o You've also said you'd like to have Bell County history/genealogy
material put in from time to time, for background, leads, and general
information (I've got some permission-to-include requests out with some
Bell County sources, hoping I can include some of the interesting things
in Bell County history in this list and on the Bell County page).

o Some of you would like to see something about the historical markers
in Bell County, and we can do that.

o Also mentioned was finding out about where to look for what kind of
records, of genealogical interest (I'm working on that... I visited the
Belton, Temple, and Killeen Public Libraries, and have asked them for
some listings of what they have relating to Bell County, and whether or
not they'll loan them. Also, the Bell County Museum is interested in a
web presence, but didn't have anyone to work on a page for them, so I've
built a simple one to get them going.. try them after a while at
www.vvm.com/~museum.. but there's nothing there just yet :)...).

I have just started the TXBELL mailing list and had not been successful
in doing interactive searches yet at the address Laurel Burns gave, but
keep trying it.

(Take a look at http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and
let's get it doing something for us!)

Laurel is right, it is a search of mailing lists, but I've not found
that it indexes into some of the board databases that Surname Helper
searches... so it may be a point of education for me! Maybe you need to
be using both for your searches to get the most benefit. Since I've only
been doing the Bell County page since the second week of February, and
had not ever used mailing lists or boards before TXBELL was set up, I
have a lot to learn about making it a useful tool. I do hope that
discussions will have something to do with Bell County, or genealogy
research relating to Bell County, or resources that can help with Bell
County research.

Lastly, if you have material to put in the non-Query boards that's for
Bell County people, please post it, or send it to me to post. It seems
that the non-query boards in almost all of the Texas counties I've
browsed have very little (generally none) material in the Deed, Wills,
Pensions, Bible Records, Biographies, and Obituaries Boards, and I'd
think they'd be full of information. Is it too hard to do the postings,
or is a suitable format needed ("What does a good posting look like"?)

Boy, it's interesting being a newbie listowner!

Bill Bost
TXBELL Listowner
RootsWeb Sponsor
Bell County Coordinator/webmaster

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