Thanks to all of you who responded to my request to maps with only the counties outlined. Veronica, thanks for your offer to get some for me, but I got just what I needed from www.usgenweb.com. Thanks again, Michelle Clark hiswill@midwest.net

Just got this site also...maybe someone can find family here. > > > > Some in America and other countries.... > > Too many to mention... > > > > http://www.feefhs.org/masteri.html > > > > >

http://migrations.org This is a new site. Looks like it could develop into something good. Dottie

My apologies if this message comes through twice, but it was returned, so I am trying again. ------------- Can anyone help with WILLIAM HOWARD, who lived in Marion County probably from at least around 1838 through 1850 census. He and his wife are buried in Marion Co. Here is what I have pieced together from marriage records in Dickson Co. TN, census records 1850 Marion Co. IL, cemetery records Marion Co. IL and land records from both glorecords and The IL State Archives public domain land sales. I would just like to see if these are the people that I think they are. William HOWARD married Jane HADDEN May 9, 1833, Dickson Co. TN. Moved to IL with at least her family, if not his too??? Bought land in 1838 and 1839; one 40 acre plot was in the same section as Jane's sister and her husband, James C. and Penelope (HADDEN) LACKEY. Census records Marion Co. 1850 show he was 37?? and she was 49?? Ages don't match tombstones. Cemetery listings show William Howard was born August 9, 1805, died August 20, 1883. Jane Howard was born January 18, 1806, died November 4, 1871. They are buried near his likely parents (the only Howards in the book) and ALSO the same cemetery in which Jane Hadden's father was buried. Does anyone know if this was indeed the same William Howard and Jane Hadden who married in Dickson Co. TN??? Thanks a lot. Dot

Nola Ochs wrote: > Dear Central Illinois researchers, I have 2 nice, old pictures----one reads: "Elizabeth Gilfillen", taken by Parsons of St. Louis, MO. The second picture reads: "Emma Gilfillen, Papa's Cousin" and taken by the same studio in St. > Louis, MO. Undated. > I am descended from Richard J. Hill of Fayette County, IL. Two of the Hill daughters married Craigs in Fayette County, and I feel the "Papa" is one of those Craigs---Albert Craig, or Leonard Craig. I would like to correspond with > you if you have a Gilfillen family, which includes Elizabeth or Emma Gilfillen. Nola in KS.

Can anyone help with WILLIAM HOWARD, who lived in Marion County probably from at least around 1838 through 1850 census. He and his wife are buried in Marion Co. Here is what I have pieced together from marriage records in Dickson Co. TN, census records 1850 Marion Co. IL, cemetery records Marion Co. IL and land records from both glorecords and The IL State Archives public domain land sales. I would just like to see if these are the people that I think they are. William HOWARD married Jane HADDEN May 9, 1833, Dickson Co. TN. Moved to IL with at least her family, if not his too??? Bought land in 1838 and 1839; one 40 acre plot was in the same section as Jane's sister and her husband, James C. and Penelope (HADDEN) LACKEY. Census records Marion Co. 1850 show he was 37?? and she was 49?? Ages don't match tombstones. Cemetery listings show William Howard was born August 9, 1805, died August 20, 1883. Jane Howard was born January 18, 1806, died November 4, 1871. They are buried near his likely parents (the only Howards in the book) and ALSO the same cemetery in which Jane Hadden's father was buried. Does anyone know if this was indeed the same William Howard and Jane Hadden who married in Dickson Co. TN??? Thanks a lot. Dot

The following names are being researched in Tazewell and McLean Counties: Malinowski Sawatzki Bisinger Grueneberg / Greeneberg Graber - married to a Malinowski Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Pat Malinowski skiroots@aol.com

Cheryl, I went and looked at this site. You are right, VERY IMPRESSIVE!! Terry Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > A member of the Logan list told me about this site and I've found it very > useful for locating cemeteries. > > http://www.topozone.com/find.asp > > Locate the map you want and then center it. Then pop it up to 1:25,000 and > Large. You will see everything, EXACT location of the cemeteries and so on. > You can use it for other purposes of course but I was impressed with the > details on cemeteries and even single graves. I found it is best to SAVE AS > from the File menu and then print later. Also, if you save your maps you > can look at them any time you want. > > Cheryl Rothwell > clrothwell@mindspring.com > > ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== > List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received > when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Cheryl Rothwell, > list administrator with questions concerning this list! > mailto: clrothwell@mindspring.com

I am the new listowner of the BEARDSLEY mailing list, and I would like to invite all of the BEARDSLEY (and alternate spellings) researchers on the Central Illinois list to subscribe. We have been having some great discussions, and many family connections have been made. To subscribe: Send an e-mail to BEARDSLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com, leave the subject line blank, in the body of the message type only one word....subscribe. To subscribe to the digest version (several messages combined on one e-mail), send to BEARDSLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com. I hope that you will join us, and will post your BEARDSLEY family data on the list, where it will be seen by other BEARDSLEY researchers, and will become a permanent part of the searchable archives. Joann Jameson, California quirkoffate@earthlink.net

Michelle, Another map source is the USGENWEB Project. Each state web site, or at least most of them have a clickable state map for accessing county web pages, i.e. a state map with the outline od all the counties. It's located at www.usgenweb.com/. Dick Cazier ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Esse <robtesse@fallsnet.com> To: <IL-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [IL-CENTRAL] looking for maps > Map source: I've been using www.topozone.com which gives great detail and > lets you zoom in and out of an area; it's fairly easy to figure out. This > might have more features than you want, but thought i'd pass the site along > to others searching for a good map source. > > I've been lurking and still learning about my IL ancestors, mostly > researching descendants of Isaac Morgan [1778-1853] who lived in [W]Va, KY, > OH, & Sangamon co., Lee co. IL > Rob Esse > Little Falls, MN > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: The Clark's <hiswill@midwest.net> > To: <IL-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 3:23 PM > Subject: [IL-CENTRAL] looking for maps > > > > Does anyone know of a good site where I can find a map of the counties of > a > > given state? Just the counties outlined would be preferable, but if I > could > > just find any map with the counties easily spotted would be fine. > Sometimes > > I need to find the surrounding counties of one I am researching. > > Thanks, > > Michelle Clark > > hiswill@midwest.net > > > > > > > > ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== > > Your generous donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out > more! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > > > > > ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== > You can search the surname or county mail list msgs here: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > For this mailing list, enter the word il-central. > Find the names of other maillists to search: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >

Hi Clarks, I just got a great map of all Illinois Counties in color at: www. rootsweb.com/~ilrreg/ (ILGenWeb Project) Hope this works for you. Cathy Whitney Searching surnames: LANDRUM, BOCZKIEWICZ, WILLIAMS, FEATHERLING and PHELPS The Clark's wrote: > Does anyone know of a good site where I can find a map of the counties of a > given state? Just the counties outlined would be preferable, but if I could > just find any map with the counties easily spotted would be fine. Sometimes > I need to find the surrounding counties of one I am researching. > Thanks, > Michelle Clark > hiswill@midwest.net > > ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== > Your generous donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out more! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222

What state are you looking for? I can get a hold of maps and send you them if you tell me the state. ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Clark's" <hiswill@midwest.net> To: <IL-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:23 PM Subject: [IL-CENTRAL] looking for maps Does anyone know of a good site where I can find a map of the counties of a given state? Just the counties outlined would be preferable, but if I could just find any map with the counties easily spotted would be fine. Sometimes I need to find the surrounding counties of one I am researching. Thanks, Michelle Clark hiswill@midwest.net ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== Your generous donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out more! http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222

Map source: I've been using www.topozone.com which gives great detail and lets you zoom in and out of an area; it's fairly easy to figure out. This might have more features than you want, but thought i'd pass the site along to others searching for a good map source. I've been lurking and still learning about my IL ancestors, mostly researching descendants of Isaac Morgan [1778-1853] who lived in [W]Va, KY, OH, & Sangamon co., Lee co. IL Rob Esse Little Falls, MN ----- Original Message ----- From: The Clark's <hiswill@midwest.net> To: <IL-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: [IL-CENTRAL] looking for maps > Does anyone know of a good site where I can find a map of the counties of a > given state? Just the counties outlined would be preferable, but if I could > just find any map with the counties easily spotted would be fine. Sometimes > I need to find the surrounding counties of one I am researching. > Thanks, > Michelle Clark > hiswill@midwest.net > > > > ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== > Your generous donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out more! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >

Does anyone know of a good site where I can find a map of the counties of a given state? Just the counties outlined would be preferable, but if I could just find any map with the counties easily spotted would be fine. Sometimes I need to find the surrounding counties of one I am researching. Thanks, Michelle Clark hiswill@midwest.net

Does anyone know if Family Origins has a way to set private for living? I know I have not posted my gedcom anywhere other than on Roots because I am able to control what is posted. ----- Original Message ----- From: <slyfox38@juno.com> To: <IL-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [IL-CENTRAL] Using Info on Living People On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:17:18 -0600 "Scott Burow" <eagle1@nemonet.com> writes: > Dear Clay: > > It may depend on which version of FTM that you are using, but I have > version > 7 and the option to privatize information is built in. If you go > to the > File menu, under Preferences, one of the options is Privatize. This > will > privatize all information on living individuals. Here's the FTM > info on > Privatization of files: Scott, Thanks for the hint. I bought FTM ver 7.0 upgrade before Thanksgiving but hadn't gotten around to installing it. In fact was wondering why I'd bothered to buy it. Will install it and check out the "privacy" feature. Clay ==== IL-CENTRAL Mailing List ==== You can search the surname or county mail list msgs here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl For this mailing list, enter the word il-central. Find the names of other maillists to search: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:17:18 -0600 "Scott Burow" <eagle1@nemonet.com> writes: > Dear Clay: > > It may depend on which version of FTM that you are using, but I have > version > 7 and the option to privatize information is built in. If you go > to the > File menu, under Preferences, one of the options is Privatize. This > will > privatize all information on living individuals. Here's the FTM > info on > Privatization of files: Scott, Thanks for the hint. I bought FTM ver 7.0 upgrade before Thanksgiving but hadn't gotten around to installing it. In fact was wondering why I'd bothered to buy it. Will install it and check out the "privacy" feature. Clay

A member of the Logan list told me about this site and I've found it very useful for locating cemeteries. http://www.topozone.com/find.asp Locate the map you want and then center it. Then pop it up to 1:25,000 and Large. You will see everything, EXACT location of the cemeteries and so on. You can use it for other purposes of course but I was impressed with the details on cemeteries and even single graves. I found it is best to SAVE AS from the File menu and then print later. Also, if you save your maps you can look at them any time you want. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

- Seeking information on the following family: Thos. DOWNING b. 1829 in KY, parents Salem and Margaret, wife,Sarah HARDESTYDowning b. 1829 KY Ch. in 1870 McLean County census: John,17, Desdamona,15, Samuel,13,Marcus,12, Charlie,10, Wm. 8, Milton,5, and Josie/Jessie 2 mos. They moved from Ky to Chenoa Township , Mclean County IL between 1857-8 between the births of Samuel and Marcus. I cannot find Thos. or Sarah after 1870. Samuel married Emma PETERS or PETERSON Feb. 24, 1875 in McLean County. In the 1880 census his wife is listed as Louise, with 2 children, Arthur age 4 and Gertrude age 2. I cannot find Samuel and Emma/Louise after this. Gertrude married a KRAUSE and moved to California. Arthur was my husband's grandfather. Any help in finding out more about these family members would be appreciated. Karen Downing

Greetings All Listers in or outside Illinois, First my apologies to those who see this message as off-topic or inappropriate. In my newly established position as the Director of Public Relations for the Historical Society of Greater Peotone (My wife is soo proud? :>) I'm working on an electronic library of Historical & Genealogical resources to permit an exchange of information. It will be appreciated if you can provide an email and/or street ad for your local City, County, etc. Genealogical/ Historical libraries & societies. Info on resources outside of IL Society in or outside of IL will be accepted. By all means, DO NOT reply to the list, instead mailto: <wmcauth99@juno.com> Walter God Bless you & yours, Walter (& Joan) MCELLIGOTT Peotone, IL (45 mi. so. of Chicago) MCELLIGOTT-L & Rootsweb sponsor <http://www.rootsweb.com/>

There are ILEastern and ILWestern mailing lists too. If your search carries to those areas you might want to join those lists too. For a list of counties in each region go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrreg/ Each region has its own page with information about lists and such. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com