New Community Map now in beta -- please test! ????
Worked first time yesterday. Chrome
The two representing the adjoining States of Nebraska and Kansas are only about 700 miles apart.
Right now I can jump over the entire State of Oklahoma and get to Squirl in Austin in 100 less miles than that.
It's interesting how many are on the map who are not frequent posters.
Very cool! Had no problem submitting.
Boo hoo. Boo hoo. Nobody wants to be my neighbor. Nearest fellow poster is 320 miles from me. And he is in Illinois. Wake up Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Anyone in Nebraska closer than 700 miles would be nice, too.
I'm in!
I'm watching for whoever takes that Antarctica job!
@holy-cow I have not surveyed in St. Libory. The closest I've been is Fayetteville via the Kaskaskia River. Fayetteville is where the channelized section begins and goes from there to the Mississippi and allows small barge traffic. I've also done the section upstream of Fayetteville up to Carlyle Lake. Vastly different methodology. Perhaps your ancestors used to fish or use the river? I'd imagine they were there long before the Lake was built by the USACE back in the 30's(I think?). Anyway, that's a neat story!
My paternal grandmother was from a little town south of where I live now called Prairie Du Rocher. I've never been there and don't know anything about her family. Dad says she left for the big city as soon as she could, met my grandpa and rarely went back. She passed when I was pretty young. I have a friend that grew up there and his parents still live there. He says the Roy family is alive and well in the area. I'll have to trek down there some day and see what I can find.
Found 12 members of a Roy family in Prairie du Rocher that qualify as permanent residents at this link.
