There were no Macs and no PCs in the junior highs where I taught, nor in the Black Hills and Pine Ridge area of South Dakota while I was a case worker for Child Welfare in Rapid City.

When I married, we raised our daughter with postal, not e-mail.

Moving to Kansas in the early '70s opened new horizons for me. My husband and I discovered some Kansas history for ourselves on the nearby remnants of the Santa Fe Trail. We got our first PC partially so I could record and reorganize family history information after finding the grave of a distant cousin buried in the 1860s near the Trail.

In 1989, our first grandson was born and Tim Berners-Lee conceived the World Wide Web. (Update on Tim Berners Lee from Time) By the time our grandson was 5, he had exchanged some letters ("zxcv") with someone in Croatia via on-line chat and the Web's childhood is reflected upon by its "father" in Peter Flynn's World Wide Web Handbook (6/1995). By then, WWW pioneer Lynn Nelson had set up the first history site on the WWW. Dr. Nelson's Kansas Heritage site on Kansas history and genealogy had gathered volunteers and attracted readers. So with its history of trails, and some of its residents making groundbreaking contributions to the Web (such as Lynn Nelson, historian, or Charles Rezac, co-creator of the pre-Mosaic browser called LYNX at KU), Kansas continues to be a great place to join the Internet highway, in my opinion.

Nancy Sween

Web Site Projects
History: Around 1995, our interest in following the Santa Fe Trail led to * Interactive Santa Fe Trail * CyberTrail-SFT More history sites followed: * Virtual Library: History - American West * Kansas Community Network sites for Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties	Genealogy: * Sweens Genealogy Index * Interactive Genealogy USA More family history projects: * Andrew County MOGenWeb * Butler County OHGenWeb * Reuben George Sr on-line book * Handley Family on-line books, wills, etc * Handley Family Index * Kansas Interactive Genealogy search Kansas surnames * Aker descendants of Per Asbjornson and Kari Okdtr AAKRE * Albert Shafer, SD * Other surnames * even more Surnames	Travel: * Kansas City area * Kansas Sights * Picture eCards * USA history travel by state Christianity: * Read Through the Bible in a Year * Today's Bible Blog Bible devotions, commentary * You can read this blog daily on your "MyYahoo" page. * Christianity and the Net * Bible Commentary and Study Guides * Christian Resources * Old FortuneCity site
Miscellaneous: Bookmarks, a calendar, and email More Sites and Pages People searches Bonner Springs and Edwardsville, KS	Medical education: Interactive Medical Student Lounge (1993-2000) joined the StudentDoctor Network (2/2000)	Sports: Sports index Research: * MiniMeta Searches * Surname Searches

Memories

Ohio Roots: Montgomery Co, OH My brother George and I grew up in the house our dad, Edw. G. Ertel, built in the 1930s.

Ed married Frances George of Butler Co OH. We lived next door to Dad's brother, Hermon and Betty Ertel's family. Growing up at Holes Creek and Springboro Road in the 1940s and '50s, I remember several floods. At least once the flood waters churned to the top of our basement windows. Our house never flooded inside, though. (Hole's Creek history and maps) Our house had two flat roofs. Sometimes we had sleep-outs up there. In the 1970s, the house sold and became headquarters for ICON. They enclosed the flat roof areas for more space. Here's how it looked from an aerial view in 1991, with a topo map. In the late 1990s, it was torn down for a flood control project. We are alumni of the West Carrollton Public Schools. George is the managing director of AZ Finance Group.

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