Reprint from Daily News, Lewisburg, WV March 8, 1996:
CYBERSPACE JOINS COURTHOUSE AND CEMETERY RECORDS AS SEARCH TOOL: ALL WITH ROOTS ROUNDED UP BY GREENBREIR COUNTY, WV HERITAGE BOOK COMMITTEE:
Williamsburg, WV. Greenbrier County's history and genealogy buffs are rounding family, club, church and business histories. In addition to the usual musty courthouse and cemetery records, the Committee has surfed the internet.
Greenbrier County was the American Fronteir from the late 1700's. It was a stopping place, or stopping off place, for much of the western migration. Now, by using the internet, Greenbrier County Heritage Book's Committee is using the information fronteir to locate former residents.
America Online: MsGenelogy turned up folks with Greenbrier County, West Virginia roots as far away as California, Hawaii, Texas, Maryland, Delaware, and almost all fifty states. Some electronic, or "e-mail" responses even came from Greenbrier County.
The notice on America Online's MsGenelogy outlined our project," publisher's representative Shirley Grose said. "It said that we are collecting Greenbrier family or genealogy stories of 500 words and a picture, which will be published free in the Greenbrier Heritage Book. People were invited to submit their 500-word story by way of the Internet, but of course photographs still have to be submitted by surface, or s. mail."
Since the Internet's instantaneous communications became popular, "s.mail" has been called snail mail. The Greenbrier Heritage Book will go "on-line" March 20, 1996 with its own World Wide Web Page on the internet. The address is http://svis.org/shirley/sgaa.htm on Software Valley Network in Harrison County,WV established by Senator Robert C. Byrd and Governor Gaston Caperton. "To the best of my knowledge, this is the first heritage book project to have it's own home on the internet,"Grose said.
"Greenbrier Heritage Book will be a comphrehensive collection of family, early history, business, club, church and organization stories," biography chairperson, Joan Kesler said. "Because of the horrible weather this winter, our deadline was extended so we will still continue to accept stories."(NOTE: This article appeared in the Lewisburg Daily News March 1997. Since then the Greenbrier book has been published and a limited number of extra copies have been printed and will be available as long as they last.)
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