Talking Pictures & TV Come to Shelby County

Well, not in the same year, of course. Once upon an Internet time there was a marvelous genealogical complex known as RootsWeb that offered vast resources free of charge. I know, the stuff of fairy tales. The early Internet/WWW was like that. Then Ancestry.com bought it in 2000 and has since pretty much destroyed it. But I digress... I once found on RootsWeb excerpts from the Shelby County…