Computer Interest Group Cass Co., TX

Your Computer and Your Genealogy Research

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~danasite/CIG/ Cass County CIG meetings are held 6:00 p.m. every third Thursday at Vaughan's Catfish in Linden.

March 2000

Cass County, TXGenWeb

Cass County, TXGenWeb is looking for volunteers to transcribe records for the on-line archives. Volunteers should contact <casstxgw@hotmail.com> http://www.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 fourpines@juno.com or Dana Thomas at <casstxgw@hotmail.com>. Web page:

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

Helpers

Publicity Directors:

Allen Muckleroy <amuckl8380@aol.com>

and Jannice Perser <perserj@aol.com>

Query Director: Vacant

Corresponding Director:

Vikki Muckleroy <amuckl8380@aol.com>

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

Find information about countries worldwide: The Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook site provides information on every country and ocean in the world. The country pages are organized regionally, and all are accessible from this main page. Each country page includes a map and the geographical location of the country, as well as detailed information about the country's flag, geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communication, and defense. The pages for the oceans contain a map and geographical location, as well as information about the ocean's geography, economy, and transportation.