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From: Frank Saffarrans <>
Subject: [TXLIPSCO-L] Texas Landmark And Vanished Communities: Lipscomb County
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:26:28 -0500


Hello Terry Allen, Lipscomb County Coordinator and all
txlipsco-l recipients;
TxGenWeb needs your help.
TxGenWeb has a new project - Index of Landmarks and Vanished
Communities. A page has been set up with the basic USGS data for
your county. Provisions are made for you and others to submit
additional data on your county concerning landmarks; vanished
communities; historical churches, schools, cotton gins, grist mills,
river crossings, river bends; current and historical cemeteries,
historical buildings (log cabins, family farms, early homes and
businesses. etc.). In earlier times
landmarks were known by several names. We would like to list them all.

If grandpa talked about it we would like to give it a location - with
the help of researchers in your local area.

You will note that "clicking" on the feature name will take you to a
page showing tabular data ; then "click" on "Show Feature Location "
and you will taken you to the map. You may then "Zoom In" to get
more detailed information.

The initial Landmark and Vanished Communities County pages do not
contain data in the description column as the USGC data did not include
this information. The submittal form may be used for you and other
researchers to add this information.

The far right column of your current county index shows USGS as the
submitter as
data was extracted from USGS records. Others, such as you, submitting
data will have their name and e-mail address in this column. Other
researchers can then contact you if they have questions concerning your
landmark entry.

To get an idea of the type of data that can be added please View Hood
County Landmarks at:
http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark/hood.htm as an example.

Index of All Texas Counties:
http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark/

Your County Listing:
:http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark/lipscomb.htm

Landmark Submittal Form:
http://hcnews.com/~landmark/howto.htm

Global Search for landmark in all counties:
http://hcnews.com/~landmark/search.htm (will be online shortly)

Later we will add a page where researchers can post queries and answers
regarding unknown locations of places/landmarks that researchers come
across in historical documentation and oral traditions.

Wayne Moyers, President Hood County Genealogical Society and member
Hood County Historical Society is moderator for the TxGenWeb Landmark
WebPages. <>
Frank Saffarrans, TxGenWeb Hood County Coordinator is general
coordinator for the TxGenWeb Landmark Project. <>

THE BOTTOM LINE: We need your help in identifying and providing
descriptions of landmarks in your county. We believe that Landmarks
and Vanished Communities can be a significant research tool that can
be used by researchers nationwide.
Please provide a link from your county TxGenWeb Page to:
http://www.hcnews/~landmark/ and submit locations of Historical
landmarks and places grandpa talked about. Please encourage other
researchers in your county to do the same.

Frank Saffarrans
General Administrator
Texas Landmark Project
TexGenWeb

opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa

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