We are working on some new things which will be connected to the Volney & Surrounding Area History Group.
We now need to give the Book Committee time to add their materials, now that they can see what has been turned in by the different members of the Volney & Surrounding Area History Group. During this time throughout this summer, when we can find time as we both have a lot going on with family, etc., Tammy Bromley and I are going to try to get a head start on scanning for the next projects which are some individual family line books. This scanning will be put on the back burner from time to time when there is work to do on the Volney & Surrounding Area Community Books (3 volumes). After the Volney & Surrounding Area Community Books go to publishers we will then work on finishing up the scanning of these other books. Both Tammy & I will be scanning for All The Gleasons & All The Giddings Books, Tammy is also interested in the Browns & Shaffer amongst others, I believe. I will also be scanning for the following family books, All The Thompsons, The Newvilles, The Knowles, The Ways & Bellingers and I am not sure which other ones. We want to put these books together after the Volney Books and as we get enough pictures and information for each one. We have been working earnestly on the Volney Books for over 4 years, collecting pictures, so it takes years to get pictures together for the books. The family books, as each book is just about one family line may not take as long to finish once we are done with the Volney Community books.
Along this same line, I am going to be doing some training on putting smaller books together. These books will be more just for individual families, not family lines. These books will be fancier and in color. Some income will come from this and that income can be used to buy our Volney & Surrounding Community History Books to put them in the area libraries, museums, schools, etc.
We had planned a reunion in Volney this summer for the community & family reunions at our Volney Farm, but the Volney Church is planning a reunion in August, so we decided since our books won't be ready yet, we should spend our time on the books instead of doing a reunion and everyone that wants to can go to the Volney Church Reunion and we can have the reunion next year when hopefully our books are ready to be ordered.
When there is more information on the above and as the times are closer, I will share more information.
Nellie
