Hi Linda,   Be sure to stop at the office at St. Adalbert and use the kiosk to located your relatives.  If the map you print out isn't clear or if you can't find a burial listed, be sure to ask at the deak.  The Sections are pretty large, so wear walking shoes.  And, watch out for the goose-poop, too.  Although the Canada Geese seem to have left the area for the most part with the warmer weather...still a few stragglers, and trust me you don't want to step in this stuff and then get in your car.   The office hours at St. Adalbert are 8:30AM to 4:00PM Monday through Friday, and 8:30AM to 1:00PM on Saturday.  The office is closed on Sunday.   The cemetery is now on "summer hours" meaning they are open 7 days from 8:30AM to 7:00PM.   Good luck! Ruth --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Linda Kush <[email protected]> wrote: From: Linda Kush <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] Visit to Chicago To: "Ruth Susmarski" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5:31 PM Hi Ruth: thanks so much for your kind reply. I know I won't find my Kusz family, but I quite a few of my Lamich and Kalka ancestors are also buried there, and a cousin has visited the graves. However, he's not a very good genealogist and took no records, photos, etc. Best, Linda --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Ruth Susmarski <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ruth Susmarski <[email protected]> Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] Visit to Chicago To: "Linda Kush" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 1:35 PM Hi Linda,   We talked about this a while back, but I just wanted to remind you not to get your hopes up with regard to early cemetery records from St. Adalbert.   Though the cemetery opened in 1872, it was a Bohemian Catholic cemetery.  When the Poles came in, sometime in the very late 1870s or early 1880s, in their anger, the Bohemians destroyed all of the burial records they had kept.   The earliest record for a burial I've found at St. Adalbert for a family member is November 1879, which was for an infant in a term grave.  While most term graves are identified by a Section letter(s) and Grave number, this record did not even have that information...only a name and burial date.   Regrettably, St. Adalbert did not keep good records for old term burials.  Even if they can translate an old Section letter(s) (example: Section M or MW) to the new Section (now identified by a number or name - example: Section 48 or St. Hedwig Section), they cannot tell you where, within the Section, any old term grave is/was located.   St. Adalbert sold term graves until sometime around 1960, and perhaps kept better records for the later ones, but hoping to locate early term graves there is a lost cause.   Ruth --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Linda Kush <[email protected]> wrote: From: Linda Kush <[email protected]> Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] Visit to Chicago To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 6:30 AM Hi Cooksters: I'll be in Chicago for a four-day weekend with my sisters in July. I'm considering going a day early to do some family history research. I would arrive on Wednesday morning, July 21, and rent a car for a day. This extra day would be pretty expensive, and I'm wondering how productive it would be. I've heard that the LDS Center in Hyde Park has all the films from St. Adalbert's and St. Stanislaus Kostka church books. Is that correct? Do they have any others? I'd also like to visit St. Adalbert Cemetery, where many of my ancestors are buried. My Polish ancestors arrived in Chicago in 1871 and the German side in 1925. I believe my father attended St. Maurice's Elementary School in the 1920s and 1930s. Any other suggestions for a good use of my time? What about visiting the churches to take pictures? Thanks for any advice, Linda in Boston ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message