This month was also shortened by the need to address a number of family heath problems. Fortunately everyone has now recovered. There are times when we just have to put everything else aside, and this was one of those times.

But the month was not without progress and here are a few of the highlights.

For those of you who remember our previous site, you will note that we have not yet brought forward the large cache of family letters we have there.

This month we started that work with one little item. We believe that we have Adrienne O'Dillion to thank for passing along a letter written by our grandfather, Asa Hillyer Whitehead, to William Walker Whitehead in 1900. The letter was written while Walker was in the Philippines serving in the Army.

As we have time we will move even more letters over and look forward to getting that portion of the web site back operational. The central piece of our family letters is a large group of pre and post Civil War letters on the Comer family. These shed light on the times and how families functioned and are quite interesting.

These will take some time since we would like to include scanned copies of the original documents in with the translations. The documents are in a remarkably good state of repair and we look forward to sharing them with everyone.

I have made some progress here and have posted my thinking to date on this topic. If you are a descendant of Sandford Whitehead you might find these ramblings interesting, and we always welcome anyone chiming in on the discussion.

So far we have gone back through the documents we referenced last month and drawn conclusions or suppositions from Sandford's involvement with various estates.

Our next line of attack will be the Census data.

At times it is important to illustrate how little things can make a difference in genealogical research. We found two such documents this month and posted them to the web site to illustrate this point.

The first of these is a receipt from the mercantile store of William Johnson Whitehead and his sons in Athens, Georgia. The store was located at 234 E. Broad Street.

The second is a small advertising piece for the Athens Shoe Company which operated at 259 Clayton Street for many years. This store was closed when a local bank failed in 1925, but we believe it operated for over a decade in this location.