It's like the best looking girl in school.....everyone is hitting on her!......And just like in High School.......I give up. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Husk<mailto:shusk@evansville.net> To: COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 Keep trying. The server is swamped. Maybe try at an odd time. I was in this morning and it told me that there were no results for something that I knew had results and another time it told me that there was a server error. Believe me, it's just because there are so many trying to use the search engine. I tried again later and did fine. Keep trying. You'll get in. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy F." <Kathyfuhr@new.rr.com<mailto:Kathyfuhr@new.rr.com>> To: <COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 > > I had same thing happen last eve & again this morning. I tried again abt > 15 minutes ago & get the same reply. > > Kathy > > From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com<mailto:cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com> > [Behalf Of Laura Schumacker > Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 > > > Hi..... I got to the page, however when I entered the user id and password > an error comes up indicating that the account is not activated. Is anyone > else having this problem? > > Laura > > > - > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Keep trying. The server is swamped. Maybe try at an odd time. I was in this morning and it told me that there were no results for something that I knew had results and another time it told me that there was a server error. Believe me, it's just because there are so many trying to use the search engine. I tried again later and did fine. Keep trying. You'll get in. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy F." <Kathyfuhr@new.rr.com> To: <COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 > > I had same thing happen last eve & again this morning. I tried again abt > 15 minutes ago & get the same reply. > > Kathy > > From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com > [Behalf Of Laura Schumacker > Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 > > > Hi..... I got to the page, however when I entered the user id and password > an error comes up indicating that the account is not activated. Is anyone > else having this problem? > > Laura > > > - > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

the free site does not work

Dear Cooksters, Could someone please look for an obit for a Jacob Scher who died about 1901-1902. His wife was Sarah. Thanks, Ruth in NY

I was successful getting in this morning but now the same thing happens to me. I even tried to subscribe and got the same message. I suspect they were so overloaded that they shut down all access to anyone who wasn't already a member. When I was on earlier it was extremely slow. Joe On Feb 11, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Kathy F. wrote: > > I had same thing happen last eve & again this morning. I tried again > abt > 15 minutes ago & get the same reply. > > Kathy > > From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com > [Behalf Of Laura Schumacker > Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 > > > Hi..... I got to the page, however when I entered the user id and > password > an error comes up indicating that the account is not activated. Is > anyone > else having this problem? > > Laura > > > - > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I had same thing happen last eve & again this morning. I tried again abt 15 minutes ago & get the same reply. Kathy From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com [Behalf Of Laura Schumacker Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 Hi..... I got to the page, however when I entered the user id and password an error comes up indicating that the account is not activated. Is anyone else having this problem? Laura -

Hi..... I got to the page, however when I entered the user id and password an error comes up indicating that the account is not activated. Is anyone else having this problem? Laura ----- Original Message ---- From: ETM <etm1935@yahoo.com> To: Ellen Elliott <eelliott@elliottadvertising.com> Cc: COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:40:06 AM Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 It is a fairly new offering. Elaine All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Hello Ellen On Sunday, February 11, 2007, you wrote > I was just on and it crashed. > Wonder why I never heard of this site in 6 years?! > Was only on a few minutes and found several > references to just one of my > relies. > Thanks for sharing. > Ellen ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index

It is a fairly new offering. Elaine All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Hello Ellen On Sunday, February 11, 2007, you wrote > I was just on and it crashed. > Wonder why I never heard of this site in 6 years?! > Was only on a few minutes and found several > references to just one of my > relies. > Thanks for sharing. > Ellen

I was just on and it crashed. Wonder why I never heard of this site in 6 years?! Was only on a few minutes and found several references to just one of my relies. Thanks for sharing. Ellen -----Original Message----- From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Linda Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:20 AM To: Susan Husk Cc: COOK-CO-IL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] GenealogyBank - FREE! until 2/13/07 Everyone must be on. I am on dsl and hard time getting anything. Great site tho. Linda Susan Husk wrote: >Here's a free Sunday, Monday Tues, that might be helpful to someone. > > > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>Date: Feb 10, 2007 3:32 AM >>Subject: Free log in to GenealogyBank.com good til Tues 2/13/07 This >>GenealogyBank.com free access promotion was announced Friday at the St >>George, Utah Genealogy Jamboree. >> >>http://www.GenealogyBank.com >> >>Click on: login in top right corner and enter: >>Email: promotion@genealogybank.com >>Password: GenBank4U >> >>For those who are not familiar with the GenealogyBank.com resources, >>there are several usage and case study downloads from our January >>telconference series at http://ancestralmanor.com/?tabid=126 >> >>GenealogyBank has a ton of resources: >>More than 1,300 newspapers 1690 to 1977 ... digital copies of every >>issue, all 50 states, Obits 1977-present ... more than 23 milllion >>obits - Books - 1801-1900 ... search these digital books >>American State Papers (earliest government reports) & the Serial Set >>(1789-1980) packed with pension requests; personal bills; military lists; >>casualty lists etc. >> >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I was at home that day and very pregnant. My husband was at work downtown and so I went to the store and then had the groceries delivered. When the delivery boy came it had just started to snow. My husband was stuck downtown and didn't get home until late the next night. I was petrified that I would go into labor and tried not to breathe hard or move! All my friends and family were calling me and offering to help, someone knew an eye doctor that could come over if I started to deliver, another knew a policeman....... My brothers in law showed up the next day. They had made it in from Niles and per my mother in law's instructions they were to take me back to their house. I asked where they were parked. About a mile away. There was no way I was going to be able to make it that far in the snow so there we all sat............for hours and hours. If I moved everyone would ask if I was alright. Made it through! Cheryl

Ellen you have not heard of this site for the past six years because it is relatively new! I think it may have been around less than six months Bonnie -- Jo Daviess Co, IL RAOGK Volunteer www.raogk.org Find A Grave County Keeper www.findagrave.com Visit my Genealogy Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/4zq7z

Everyone must be on. I am on dsl and hard time getting anything. Great site tho. Linda Susan Husk wrote: >Here's a free Sunday, Monday Tues, that might be helpful to someone. > > > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>Date: Feb 10, 2007 3:32 AM >>Subject: Free log in to GenealogyBank.com good til Tues 2/13/07 >>This GenealogyBank.com free access promotion was announced Friday at the >>St George, Utah Genealogy Jamboree. >> >>http://www.GenealogyBank.com >> >>Click on: login in top right corner and enter: >>Email: promotion@genealogybank.com >>Password: GenBank4U >> >>For those who are not familiar with the GenealogyBank.com resources, >>there are several usage and case study downloads from our January >>telconference series at http://ancestralmanor.com/?tabid=126 >> >>GenealogyBank has a ton of resources: >>More than 1,300 newspapers 1690 to 1977 ... digital copies of every issue, >>all 50 states, >>Obits 1977-present ... more than 23 milllion obits - >>Books - 1801-1900 ... search these digital books >>American State Papers (earliest government reports) & the Serial Set >>(1789-1980) packed with pension requests; personal bills; military lists; >>casualty lists etc. >> >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >

Hello Everyone, I was 13 at the time. I was an eighth grade student at Dawes School. It is was the first (and only) time we had a snow day when I attended school. My mother, brother, and I kept the driveway shoveled (we lived in one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago with driveways) so my father would be able to get the car in. It took him over two hours to get home from work but he was determined to get home. He got the car in the driveway and there it sat for a few days. We were fortunate because our street was plowed right away. Commonweath Edison had a station and yard at the end of our street and they needed to be able to get their trucks out so they plowed the street. I remember walking down the sidewalk and the snow being piled over five feet high. Mayor Daley arranged for the trains to haul snow away in empty coal cars. As the trains traveled south the snow melted along the way. On our block, neighbors helped neighbors shovel. This was before snowblowers so everything was by hand. Neighbors shoveled helped retired neighbors shovel. It was a "block party" shoveling snow that year. It was fun and it was a simpler time when neighbors knew each other, in summer the adults sat on the porch in the evening and visited with other neighbors while the children ran around catching lightening bugs and playing "kick the can", Saturday mornings the men cut their lawns and visited.

My children my children had just turned 3, 5 and 7. I kept the the oldest home from school because we were going into the city from Lake Zurich to visit my aunt on the northwest side and then to 5500 S. Laramie to pick up parts for my husband's business. By 10:30am, my aunt started pestering me to forget going south and return home. Young know-it-all that I was and believing I was a good snow driver having learned in the country, we stayed for lunch and then proceeded south. What a mistake!!! I got to 5500 south ok at about 1:00pm, but coming back was a nightmare, especially with three little ones in the car. Three times, while at a dead standstill for I can't remember how long, we left the car in the middle of the street to go into a 5 & 10 and or restaurant to buy the girls things to occupy them, use the bathroom and eat. At 11:00 we finally arrived home safely........nerves frazzled, but safe. Judie Mason Chicago IL David Buzzek <dbuzzek@yahoo.com> wrote: I was going to college in Dubuque IA at the time. I had decided to come home for the weekend. While waiting for the train, it started to snow, but it was winter--so what! Many hours into our normal 3 hour trip, the train would stop several times so the crew could get off and clear the track ahead. Twelve hours later we arrived at Chicago's Union Station. After walking through the snow to Michigan Avenue, I found a bus going north. We finally made it to the street that would take me home, after a 2 mile walk down the middle of the street. Fortunately, the weekend was not a waste, as I made a lot of money shoveling snow. Dave Buzzek --- South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society wrote: > Do you remember the Chicago Snow Storm January 26, > 1967? > > When 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago in less than > a day and a half in > the late winter of 1967 it not only paralyzed the > economic life of a > great city, but also stopped grandpa cold in his > tracts in his boats > about the horrible winters he endured as a boy. > Weather Bureau records > showed definitely that there had been no such snow > for more than 80 years. > The preceding extraction was printed in the January > 28, 1968 issue of > The Illinois Intelligencer as part of Illinois' > Sesquicentennial > Celebration. > http://www.illinoishistory.com/deepsnow.htm > > Pictures and related stories about the storm: > http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/witnesses.htm > http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/snowstorms.html > http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00953.htm > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society is > looking for stories > about the storm of 1967 to include in an upcoming > publication. > > Where were you forty years ago on January 26, 1967? > Write a short > paragraph or two about the Snow Storm that hit the > Midwest and what you > did or what happened to your family on that day. > Include your name > (maiden name), where you lived then and where you > live now. Anyone have > a photo you can share? > It's easy and fun! Have a part of your family > history preserved. > > Start today by answering these basic questions. > Who, what, where, when > and how. Then make it into a short story. Don't > worry about grammar or > spelling, we'll fix that part. > > Please submit your story and pictures by the end of > March 2007 directly to: > SSGHS@USA.NET > > Thank you! > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society > /Serving south Cook and east > Will counties, > Illinois / > / including Chicago's Roseland > and Pullman > neighborhoods/ > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society Web > Site > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > David T Buzzek You cannot soar with the eagles during the day if you hoot with the owls at night! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Here's a free Sunday, Monday Tues, that might be helpful to someone. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Feb 10, 2007 3:32 AM > Subject: Free log in to GenealogyBank.com good til Tues 2/13/07 > This GenealogyBank.com free access promotion was announced Friday at the > St George, Utah Genealogy Jamboree. > > http://www.GenealogyBank.com > > Click on: login in top right corner and enter: > Email: promotion@genealogybank.com > Password: GenBank4U > > For those who are not familiar with the GenealogyBank.com resources, > there are several usage and case study downloads from our January > telconference series at http://ancestralmanor.com/?tabid=126 > > GenealogyBank has a ton of resources: > More than 1,300 newspapers 1690 to 1977 ... digital copies of every issue, > all 50 states, > Obits 1977-present ... more than 23 milllion obits - > Books - 1801-1900 ... search these digital books > American State Papers (earliest government reports) & the Serial Set > (1789-1980) packed with pension requests; personal bills; military lists; > casualty lists etc. > >

I was going to college in Dubuque IA at the time. I had decided to come home for the weekend. While waiting for the train, it started to snow, but it was winter--so what! Many hours into our normal 3 hour trip, the train would stop several times so the crew could get off and clear the track ahead. Twelve hours later we arrived at Chicago's Union Station. After walking through the snow to Michigan Avenue, I found a bus going north. We finally made it to the street that would take me home, after a 2 mile walk down the middle of the street. Fortunately, the weekend was not a waste, as I made a lot of money shoveling snow. Dave Buzzek --- South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society <ssghs@usa.net> wrote: > Do you remember the Chicago Snow Storm January 26, > 1967? > > When 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago in less than > a day and a half in > the late winter of 1967 it not only paralyzed the > economic life of a > great city, but also stopped grandpa cold in his > tracts in his boats > about the horrible winters he endured as a boy. > Weather Bureau records > showed definitely that there had been no such snow > for more than 80 years. > The preceding extraction was printed in the January > 28, 1968 issue of > The Illinois Intelligencer as part of Illinois' > Sesquicentennial > Celebration. > http://www.illinoishistory.com/deepsnow.htm > > Pictures and related stories about the storm: > http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/witnesses.htm > http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/snowstorms.html > http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00953.htm > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society is > looking for stories > about the storm of 1967 to include in an upcoming > publication. > > Where were you forty years ago on January 26, 1967? > Write a short > paragraph or two about the Snow Storm that hit the > Midwest and what you > did or what happened to your family on that day. > Include your name > (maiden name), where you lived then and where you > live now. Anyone have > a photo you can share? > It's easy and fun! Have a part of your family > history preserved. > > Start today by answering these basic questions. > Who, what, where, when > and how. Then make it into a short story. Don't > worry about grammar or > spelling, we'll fix that part. > > Please submit your story and pictures by the end of > March 2007 directly to: > SSGHS@USA.NET > > Thank you! > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society > /Serving south Cook and east > Will counties, > Illinois / > / including Chicago's Roseland > and Pullman > neighborhoods/ > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society Web > Site > <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Essghs> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > David T Buzzek <www.gensearch.net> You cannot soar with the eagles during the day if you hoot with the owls at night! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com

I just found a couple of messages on the Rootsweb message boards posted by "Vicki" in regard to her gggpa Stanislaw Sobiechowski who live in Chicago after he immigrated. I can provide her info on that family if she is out there and will contact me. Anettka

I was in high school at the time. a bunch of got together and decided to help push people out of the snow ..... for a price $5 each. No pay, no push. We were entrepreneurs or just gready and mean. Anyway, I recall the city shut down. People could not get home from downtown. The city was socked in, to say the least. Most of the time we just "skeeched" (jump a ride on a car by holding onto the bumper or fender - mostly the bumper - without the driver knowing) on cars. Yeah, it was stupid, but we were young and foolish. Once while skeeching a fender, I lost my grip and a car ran over my leg, but i got up and walked away. That was the same year that the tornado hit Oak Lawn High School. It travelled down 87th Street caroming like a cue ball off bumpers. A friend and I were walking his girlfriend home down 83rd Place, when the sky turned green and the birds stopped chirpping. We heard a roar like a train, then it started to pour down rain. We ran to her home. Then, we ran home - a good half mile. As we crossed what was then Ashburn Park, we noticed that the park was strewn with debris. We even saw a piece of straw that penetrated a tree and was sticking out both sides of the tree. If we were crossing when the roar sound occurred, I might be here right now. Shortly after the rain stopped, a bunch of us decided to "appraise" the damage at the Schlitz distributor on 88th/89th and Kedzie. However, the Evergreen Park Police were there doing their own assessment and keeping us from doing anything illegal. The snowstorm of '67 was a major storm and the original Mayor Daley was in charge then. The city was cleaned up in no time. It had to be - all the patronage workers needed to get to their jobs. Nevertheless, the snowstorm of '79 cost Mike Bilandic his job as mayor and Chicago had its only female mayor, Jane Byrne. I was on the El to Randolph and Wabash to take a insurance license test. The Els were jam packed. It seemed to take forever. I believe we got 16" of snow that day. At least we weren't living in Oswego, NY. They have had 10' of snow in the lasst week. Talk about being socked in, whew!!!! Bill Karr in Peoria, IL., USA ----- Original Message ----- From: South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society <ssghs@usa.net> Date: Friday, February 9, 2007 16:45 Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] Where were you January 26, 1967? To: "COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com" <COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com> > Do you remember the Chicago Snow Storm January 26, 1967? > > When 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago in less than a day and a > half in > the late winter of 1967 it not only paralyzed the economic life > of a > great city, but also stopped grandpa cold in his tracts in his > boats > about the horrible winters he endured as a boy. Weather > Bureau records > showed definitely that there had been no such snow for more than > 80 years. > The preceding extraction was printed in the January 28, 1968 > issue of > The Illinois Intelligencer as part of Illinois' Sesquicentennial > Celebration. > http://www.illinoishistory.com/deepsnow.htm > > Pictures and related stories about the storm: > http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/witnesses.htm > http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/snowstorms.html > http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00953.htm > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society is looking for > stories > about the storm of 1967 to include in an upcoming publication. > > Where were you forty years ago on January 26, 1967? Write > a short > paragraph or two about the Snow Storm that hit the Midwest and > what you > did or what happened to your family on that day. Include > your name > (maiden name), where you lived then and where you live > now. Anyone have > a photo you can share? > It's easy and fun! Have a part of your family history preserved. > > Start today by answering these basic questions. Who, what, > where, when > and how. Then make it into a short story. Don't > worry about grammar or > spelling, we'll fix that part. > > Please submit your story and pictures by the end of March 2007 > directly to: > SSGHS@USA.NET > > Thank you! > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society > /Serving south Cook and east Will counties, > Illinois / > / including Chicago's Roseland and Pullman > neighborhoods/ > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society Web Site > <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Essghs> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Why not post something on the RootsWeb Poland board - perhaps there is somebody there that would be able to do a phone lookup. Bonnie -- Jo Daviess Co, IL RAOGK Volunteer www.raogk.org Find A Grave County Keeper www.findagrave.com Visit my Genealogy Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/4zq7z

Hi list Is there someone on the list who could get me a phone # for my cousin in Poznan. Jeanne