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Monday, 31 March 2006. It's been two months since our last update, but if you thought we'd nodded off, it's time to think again. Actually we've been very busy, adding a lot of content and moving the web site to a new location. I apologize for not keeping you up to date. Here's the latest! First, we've just moved the web site to a new server. The new web address of the MSGenWeb Lauderdale County web site is: http://LauderdaleCoMS.Com/ but if you're reading this, you already know that. We've been careful not to disturb our content any more than necessary so all the old familiar page addresses are exactly the same as before, just substitute the new domain name for the old. For example -- the Marion Brick Yard Gunfight pages formerly located at http://www.rootsweb.com/mariongunfight.html is now located at http://LauderdaleCoMS.Com/mariongunfight.html. See, just swap the new domain (LauderdaleCoMS.Com) for the old (Rootsweb.com). You get the idea. :) More importantly, there's new content. We've added a whole new section to the web site. Sponsored by the Constantine Rea Historical Society, the new section celebrates the life and civil war times of Lauderdale Counties Con Rea and his War for Southern Independence unit, the 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment Volunteers. The section contains articles about the Con Rea Historical Society, a three part article on the life and untimely death of Con Rea (see the contents page), a brief family history, the story of the "Pensacola Expedition," one of the first campaigns of the war, the original roster of the Lauderdale Rifles, the company of infantry that Rea organized and took to Vicksburg, a partial copy of the Commander's Journal extracted from the national archives, and a four part series documenting the history of the 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (please see the contents page for this series). Whew! It was a lot of fun developing the content and we had lots of help from Ward Calhoun of the Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History and the Constantine Rea Historical Society. I hope you enjoy reading it as much and we enjoyed putting it together. Please drop us a note and let us know what you think of the new project. That's it for this update but keep watching, there'll be more coming as soon as we take a little break to catch our breath and get the new web site stable. Thanks for stopping by.
Thursday, 31 January 2008. We have just published a photographic study of a Lauderdale County family -- The Barker Family Album. The album includes fifty photographs of the family that begin with Annie Elizabeth Barker born in 1809 in North Carolina, and moves forward to the present. It is an interesting study in pictures and we hope you'll enjoy seeing it. We have also just posted the story of Aunt Muggie Warbington and the so-called gunfight at the Marion Brickyard in 1846.
Monday, 31 December 2007. We're a bit late posting the December update to our "What's New" page, so please bear with us. During December we updated the search engine page to include a "Search the MSGenWeb archives" box. This will allow you to search deeply into the MSGenWeb archives folders for your specific name or key word. We've also made extensive updates to the cemeteries pages, making email lookups available to all of our visitors against the cemetery documents we have in hard-copy. Just drop the Webmaster a note and we'll be happy to check for you ancestor's name among those records we have. Further we posted the second in a planned three articles on Confederate Cemeteries. This most recent publication, Marion Confederate Cemetery includes information about the hospital as well as the causality pages. We also created and published a Meridian Star page, highlighting several important Meridian Star articles and several videos made about Lauderdale county history by Ward Calhoun, the Directory of the Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History. Finally, we created and posted the new Volunteers and page. Whew! I think we'll take a short break. Please remember to let us know if you find a problem with any of the new pages.
Monday, 26 November 2007 -- The newspaper account and genealogy of Hell Fired Jack Woodrick an interesting, if somewhat exaggerated account of an 1850s railroad engineer was posted earlier in the month. A few days later we posted a long awaited update to the Asa Boswell Family pages. We've also added an announcement seeking volunteers to help in some aspects of the development and posting of data. But far and away the accomplishment of the month is the inclusion on the home page of links to the new MSGenWeb Lauderdale County forum. Please visit there soon.
No new publications are scheduled for October as we prepare for a brief research trip to Mississippi. Watch this site for lots of new photos and articles beginning in November. Thanks!
Sunday, 30 September 2007 -- Published the first in a series of articles about important business men that helped to move Lauderdale County forward -- Lauderdale Counties Movers and Shakers. This article takes a look at the life of one of Lauderdale's Counties most dynamic personalities, William H. Hardy. Please see: Lauderdale Counties Movers and Shakers: William Harris Hardy.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 -- Published two new articles and updated The Confederate Orphans Home of Mississippi to include a list of staff, faculty, and residents. For the first time you can now read the story of James Lauderdale, in whose honor Lauderdale County was named and get the facts on Creek Where the Rabbit Dances, the true story of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek that made available the land from which 18 new Mississippi counties, including Lauderdale County, were created.
Thursday, 19 July 2007 -- Published two new articles on The Lauderdale Springs Confederate Cemetery, including a list of soldiers who died while in the care of the hospital at Lauderdale Springs and The Confederate Orphans' Home of Mississippi.
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 -- Added World War Two Registration information to Lauderdale County Resources page.
Thursday, 10 May 2007 -- Updated Cemeteries Page to include recently documented Springhill Church Cemetery, Old Springhill Cemetery, and Jones Chapel Cemetery.
Monday, 16 April 2007 -- Added World War One Registration information to Lauderdale County Resources page.
Monday, 26 March 2007 -- Published "A Brief History of Mississippi Leading to the Creation of Lauderdale County" See the following link to view the article: Mississippi History.
Friday, 15 December 2006 -- Published a new Cemeteries page including all 86 known cemeteries in Lauderdale County with MAPS, thanks to Google Maps.
Wednesday, 13 December 2006 -- Two completely new pages were added today. The African American Resources page provides a list of high quality resource links to those researching an African American ancestry. The Fallen Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom is an old soldier's (that would be me) tribute to Lauderdale County service men and women who have sacrificed so much in these most recent hostilities.
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 -- Today the Lookups page was updated with a great many new reference books offered by Judy Gilmer. What a remarkable library she must have. Please contact her if she can assist you. I've also published a list of "How To" rules for requesting queries called "Email Rules." I hope you will find it both informative and amusing.
Monday, 11 December 2006 -- Well... A lot, actually, is new! And maybe just a little, too. That is to say, obviously the web site has a new look and feel -- perhaps you'll find it easier to navigate once you've taken a quick test drive, and even though much has been done there's also much to be done. If our mission is to make the genealogy information of Lauderdale County more accessible, then there's very much to be done. You are invited to work with the Coordinators and Webmaster in adding to, enhancing and improving the information available here and in mining additional resources that we can pass along to our visitors. So, if you have a genealogy resource on your A-list that isn't posted here or if you have information -- cemetery, family information, photographs or other -- that you're willing to share, please let the staff know and, with your help, they'll find an appropriate and dignified place to post it. You'll want to watch this page carefully as well. Each time a new posting is made to the site, a notice announcing the new content will be placed here, at the top of this page, where you can easily learn what the latest posting has been. Your patience is also appreciated. Experience tells us that it will take a few weeks or, perhaps, a month for the new design to stabilize. No matter how skilled our developers are, a bug or two always slips in. If you find a problem with the site please let the Webmaster know as soon as possible. That's it for now except to wish you a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years. You can contact the Lauderdale County MSGenWeb Webmaster below: He is always glad :-) to hear from you.
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This is an authorized site of the MSGenWeb project. For comments, suggestions or questions concerning the content or format of this web site, please contact the Webmaster. The Lauderdale County Coordinator for this project is the Bill White. The State Coordinator for this project is Everette Carr. The Assistant State Coordinator is Bill White.
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