Lastly, the Photographs section was added for those who may have genealogy connections here but who live elsewhere. As an outsider myself I always had a great curiosity about what the community and surrounding area was like. We have received photographs from many individuals, but are especially indebted to Cindy and Amber Fellure who traversed the entire county looking for photographic opportunities.
There are an estimated 20,000 links and over 1000 web pages on this site. It is virtually impossible to have that much material without some typos and broken links creeping in. Errors such as this are very easily corrected, so if you run across examples of this please take the time to click on one of the many email links and report them.
Neil Elvick, Webmaster
The holidays are upon us once again. We are planning an Open House for Friday, December 9, from 11 to 3, so stop in and see us. Refreshments, silent auctions and many Christmas ornaments, key finders, fleur de lis items and lovely pictures for those last minute Christmas gifts will be available.
The Annual Banquet was a huge success and there is an article about this in the newsletter. We already have several applications for next year and remind you not to forget the new lineage society, Century Families of Gallia County, which is for ancestors here between 1861 and one hundred years from the current year. Deadline is September 1 and those here by 1912 will be accepted.
Thanks to all those who have contributed Civil War soldier names to us. This is an ongoing project and we have about 3,000 at this time. If you have photos or obituaries of any connected with Gallia County please let us know.
We also have a new request in regards to the Civil War. If you know of a story connected with Morgan’s Raid we would love to hear about it. It could be a few paragraphs or many. For that matter, if you have any good Civil War stories you would like to contribute to the newsletter or website, we welcome them.
Being the end of the year I’d like to thank all of our contributors of money, items, research and time and especially the officers, board members and volunteers who keep the office running smoothly. Alvera and Don Robinson generously donate money and gave all of our recent door prizes. Bob Vance appears at our door every once in a while to take care of computer problems. Pat Brower, Kay Brown, Jinx Farley, Maxine Marshall, returning typist Sue Giroux and new typist Danielle Frogale-Dorso are the dependable volunteers who help get obituaries on the website and other documents ready and Debra Leonard works her magic with the newsletter and program booklet. I think the website and newsletter are the reasons we have over 70 NEW members this year.
We also received a monetary grant from Suzanne and Philip Fisher who recently attended the lineage banquet and we applaud their generosity.
It is time for dues and marking your ballot so please do this before January 1st. Send in queries and book orders at the same time.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2012!!!
Henny Evans, President