I've added to the Decatur County genweb pages a few new lookup resources.
One is for the 1860 census, the others for family records. We now have
volunteers willing to share their extensive resources on the following
families: Elder, Geiger, Gray, Haines, Harding, Maynard, Montgomery,
Morris, Nordmeyer, O'Hara, Pemberton, Reddington/Redington, Sharp, Wood.
If any of you have records you're willing to share, let me know.
I'm particularly eager to find look-up volunteers with access to any of the
following:
DAR (Greensburg chapter): Bible records.
DAR (Greensburg chapter): 1894 enrolment of Civil War soldiers, widows and
orphans
Maurice Holmes: Decatur Co Court Records, 1822-1848
Maurice Holmes: Decatur Co Will Records, 1822-1906
And most of all, an index that covers Harding's History and several others:
WPA: Index of names in 5 Decatur County histories (1938 typescript).
Copies in Greensburg Library and Indiana State Library.
I'm also planning to set up a page of links to family genealogy websites
with substantial Decatur IN linkages. I've found a few of these, but would
be happy to hear of others. Incidentally, some county genweb pages,
notably Pike IN, have found funding support enabling them to put up copies
of the original census pages from 1820 through 1880.
I've also changed the background color for the site pages from the electric
blue that I inherited to a less obtrusive dull green.
John
Dr J A Ballard <john.ballard(a)anu.edu.au>
Graduate School, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Tel +61 2 6249 5487 Fax +61 2 6249 4829