Summary of 1997 Changes To The
Scott Co, TN Homepages

This page was created 24 Feb 2008

• 12 Dec 1997 change summary
• 17 Oct 1997 change summary

This page was created by Timothy N. West and is copyrighted © 1996-2008 by him. All rights reserved.

12 Dec 1997 Changes

• New pages
  • Added Scott Co, TN Topography
  • Added Scott Co, TN 1895 Map
• Scott Co, TN Homepage
  • Removed link to About the Tennessee GenWeb Project (recent political and leadership changes within the TNGenWeb project caused the loss of a number of pages, this being one of them)
• Scott Co, TN Families
  • Added link to Strunk Family homepage (link removed Jan 2001 - page can't be found)
  • Added links to Anderson, Campbell, Fentress, and Morgan counties in Tennessee
  • Added links to surrounding Kentucky counties of McCreary, Wayne, and Whitley
• Scott County, Tennessee Local Genealogy and History Authors
  • Added Scott County, Tenn. Marriages 1854-1880 by Byron and Barbara Sistler
• Scott Co, TN Topography and Migration Patterns
  • Added link to Tennessee Land History
  • Added link to Satellite Picture showing Scott County topography
  • Added link to 1835 TN map showing area that would become Scott County
  • Added link to 1895 map of Scott County
  • I wanted to add a link to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for Scott County and include a database of Scott County geographic features, but the GNIS server has been down for the last week due to hardware problems. Hopefully, I can add this important resource next time.
• General fixes
  • Fixed links to Anderson and Fentress counties in Tennessee (again)

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17 Oct 1997 Changes

• New pages
  • Added Scott Co, TN 1901-1968 Death Records page
  • Added Scott Co, TN War Records page
  • Added Scott Co, TN Families page
• Scott Co, TN Homepage
  • Added Alta Vista search engine code to search newgroups
  • Added buttons for linking to USGenWeb, TNGenWeb, and TNGenWeb Counties List
  • Added visit counter
• Scott Co, TN History Page
  • Added history of Walker Line and potential impact to genealogical research in Scott Co, TN
  • Added links to KYGenWeb McCreary, Wayne, and Whitley counties because of Walker Line confusions
• Scott Co, TN Research Helps Page
  • Added Scott Co, TN 1901-1968 Death Records page
  • Added Scott Co, TN War Records page
  • Added Scott Co, TN Families page
  • Changed page format for linked pages
  • Sorted list of linked pages
• Scott Co, TN 1901-1968 Death Records
  • A complete transcription of the Scott County Historical Society book by Alta Presley
• Scott Co, TN War Records
  • Includes a link to 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment page (courtesy of Dave Mathews). Many Scott countians served in this unit
  • Includes a link to Tennessee World War I Veterans page (not specific to Scott Co)
  • Includes a link to Tennesseans in Vietnam: A List of Published Material page (not specific to Scott Co)
• Scott Co, TN Families page
  • Added link to Brenda Strobel's Chambers Family page
  • Added link to Anne Hood's Low Family page
• Scott Co, TN Queries Index page
  • Added outstanding queries
  • Broke out query index into seperate pages by each letter of the alphabet. Index was getting too large and affecting display performance
• General fixes
  • Fixed link to Independent Herald Newspaper
  • Fixed link to Scott County Historical Society
  • Fixed link to Social Security Administration FAQs
  • Fixed link to list of Fidonet BBSs covering Scott Co, TN area
  • Fixed research button link on Scott Co, TN Historian page
  • Fixed link to 10 Nov 1996 changes on the What's New page

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