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I forgot to tell you that I awarded your "1895 U.S. Atlas" a Best of the Net award as the most outstanding site in my "Historic U.S. Maps" category of Net Links:

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I was so honored to receive word from Juliana Smith at Ancestry that both my Livingston County MI and my Chase County NE sites had received their Family History Favorite Award. 

You guys are the reason I keep putting up the data, thanks for your support.

Pam

The Jeff Murphy Award Winner - October 1999

Michigan

Pam Rietsch Livingston Co., MI

These awards are being given to excellent sites within the USGenWeb Project.  The Award homepage is at: http://pweb.netcom.com/~gsdownr/jmaward.html.  Nominations are now open for next months award winners (and for unrewarded states).  If you know of somebody with an outstanding USGenWeb site, please e-mail me, and we'll get them the recognition they deserve. I do not know where they moved the page with their awards and I am spending more time getting data on line than searching out places to give me awards.

I've awarded Chase Co., USGenWeb the imaging award for their placement of images of two manuscripts online: The 1892 Gardiner's Atlas of English History and 1891 Shippers Gazette. There are many other great images from other manuscripts and maps available as well here, but these two are the ones which overtly impress me. Take a look at how Pam Rietsch uses imaging to enhance genealogy online!

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