Dianna, I checked a few of the Saracco's in the 1930's census. There a few who were in the newspaper business. Vito had his own street paper stand...........others were also in the business. Do you have all the census and WW1 Draft information? Regards Darlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dianna SaraccoFarish" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:16 AM Subject: [IL-CHICAGO] looking for info on Saracco's > 1920's to 1950's. Vito, Antonio. Sam, William, possible more but I am not sure of names. > Thank you. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: .... valentine53179 > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] Re: IL-COOK-CHICAGO-D Digest V06 #12 > > > and an era? > > On 1/22/06, Arleen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you supply some first names? > > AR > > > > > > > > I am looking for info on my family from Chicago. I know they > > > had news paper stands for the Tribune in Chicago . The names > > > are.. Saracco. I am not sure of the years. > > > Can anyone start me in the right direction? > > > Any help would be great! > > > Thanks. > > > Dianna Saracco > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:00 AM > > > Subject: IL-COOK-CHICAGO-D Digest V06 #12 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe: Send a message to > > > [email protected] > > > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > > > > > ============================== > > > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for > > > your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family > > > and friends. Learn more: > > > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sou > > rceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: > > 1/20/2006 > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: > > 1/20/2006 > > > > > > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > > > ============================== > > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

here, a photographic collective FREE http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp;jsessionid=EAEDFE60D97209273ED4E616D4FB8B7A then click on BROWSE... and make your selection of type of presentation you want...yes, images worldwide.... and in the states, they are broken down by county if you search countyNAME within the state results be systematic... think of all the places you have/had family in.... and occupations... and housing.... notice the years, beginning 1939 if you arent too pressed for time, return to the home page and see what cushman used for equipment after all, that too is part of the image that you view... if you like the work, then be sure to send a thankyou to indiana.....

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ click on french or english to move forward then genealogy links.... then databases.... if you havent found your people thru the other ports, consider canada's 1901 census for them take your time, learn to use the site... and spend some time

http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/1898-1912permits/search.asp i have to say that i personally never have much luck with the chiago historical society... what might error one minute will work the next and notmuch of their material is truly visible... more of an index for fee or IN PERSON research... but still one must consider it if doing a tru research effort.

Thomas, Thank you so much. I really appreciate your help. Julie B in NC -----Original Message----- From: THOMAS MACKOWIAK [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IL-CHICAGO] NEED HELP IN FAMILY SEARCH IN CHICAGO'S 17th WARD Julie B. kajbene [mailto:[email protected]] asked where a Polish Catholic family would have gone to church if they lived in the 17th Ward in Chicago in 1910. Julie B. I checked the 1910 US Census for your Lorenz Lenn family and found that they lived at 1535 Haddon. They would have had two Roman Catholic churches that they could have attended. The closest church would be Holy Trinity which is now called Holy Trinity Polish Mission located at 1118 North Noble Street, Chicago, Illinois 60622 or St. Stanislaus Kostka located at 1351 West Evergreen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622. The Sacramental Record Books (Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, etc.) have been microfilmed by the Mormons (LDS) from the beginnings of these churches through 1915. You can find the microfilms numbers for these Sacramental Record Books by going to www.familysearch.org . When you get to the home page of the Family Search website, click on the Library tab. Next you can click on Family History Library Catalog. Then click on Place Search. Enter Chicago in the Place box and Illinois in the Part of box and click the search button. Then click on the Illinois, Cook, Chicago. Scroll down to Illinois. Cook. Chicago - Church Records and click. Then scroll down the list of churches until you come to St. Stanislaus Kostka and Holy Trinity and click on the links for each church. You will then get a list of the microfilm numbers that are available for those churches. You can order the microfilms that you need from your local Family History Library in North Carolina. If the above instructions for using the Family Search website are something you already know how to do, I apologize to you for going through the individual steps. I went through the individual steps in case there is someone reading this message that has never used the Family Search website so that they would know how to make use of the on-line catalog. Thomas Mackowiak MACKOWIAK/SERWATKIEWICZ/WANATOWICZ/JANUSZEWSKI/LESCZYNSKI/ORLIKOWSKI/MRO Z/MU NO/HARNEY ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006

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Julie B. kajbene [mailto:[email protected]] asked where a Polish Catholic family would have gone to church if they lived in the 17th Ward in Chicago in 1910. Julie B. I checked the 1910 US Census for your Lorenz Lenn family and found that they lived at 1535 Haddon. They would have had two Roman Catholic churches that they could have attended. The closest church would be Holy Trinity which is now called Holy Trinity Polish Mission located at 1118 North Noble Street, Chicago, Illinois 60622 or St. Stanislaus Kostka located at 1351 West Evergreen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622. The Sacramental Record Books (Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, etc.) have been microfilmed by the Mormons (LDS) from the beginnings of these churches through 1915. You can find the microfilms numbers for these Sacramental Record Books by going to www.familysearch.org . When you get to the home page of the Family Search website, click on the Library tab. Next you can click on Family History Library Catalog. Then click on Place Search. Enter Chicago in the Place box and Illinois in the Part of box and click the search button. Then click on the Illinois, Cook, Chicago. Scroll down to Illinois. Cook. Chicago - Church Records and click. Then scroll down the list of churches until you come to St. Stanislaus Kostka and Holy Trinity and click on the links for each church. You will then get a list of the microfilm numbers that are available for those churches. You can order the microfilms that you need from your local Family History Library in North Carolina. If the above instructions for using the Family Search website are something you already know how to do, I apologize to you for going through the individual steps. I went through the individual steps in case there is someone reading this message that has never used the Family Search website so that they would know how to make use of the on-line catalog. Thomas Mackowiak MACKOWIAK/SERWATKIEWICZ/WANATOWICZ/JANUSZEWSKI/LESCZYNSKI/ORLIKOWSKI/MROZ/MU NO/HARNEY

Hello, Today, I finally found my uncle's family in the 1910 census in Chicago. The family name is listed as Lorenz Lenn, and Mary Lenn, my uncle was Stanislaw age 11 months. Lorenz later went by Lawrence so I had a hard time finding them. He died some time between 1915 & 1916. They married about 1908 in Ill. They had 2 more sons, Lawrence born abt 1913 / 1914 & Walter born abt 1915/ 1916. My uncle went by Lynn. Mary re-married in Indiana in Nov, 1916. My question is WHERE would they have attended church in the 17th ward? They were Catholic and Polish. Where would I find their marriage and the births of Stanley, Walter & Lawrence? Where would I look to find Lorenz's / Lawrence's death? I checked on Ancestry and came up with a big zero. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Julie B in NC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006

Thank you so much, very thoughtful of you. I am sure I will get a lot of use of these. Julie B in NC -----Original Message----- From: .... valentine53179 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IL-CHICAGO] more free stuff more free stuff.... from a friend Hello All, Here are some more places to check for free genealogy stuff... Free USA Genealogy Stuff Online - Charts, Forms, and Online Records http://www.researchguides.net/free.htm Some Free Online Census Records Indexes - USA http://www.researchguides.net/census/free.htm Free Genealolgy Stuff - England & Wales http://www.researchguides.net/englandwales.htm Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 1/18/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 1/18/2006

Archdiocese of Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Archives and Records Center 711 W. Monroe St. Chicago, IL 60661 Tel: (312) 831-0711 Fax: (312) 831-0610 Web site: http://archives.archchicago.org Also, sacramental records for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to 1915 are available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

If anyone has any ancestors in the UK.......this might be of some interest to you. http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx It has all the images from 1837 to 1983 searchable by surname. Have fun Darlene BC Canada

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6598443733&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1 now, do you need to BUY them? nah, but you shold know that they exist and since they were printed, therefore there is likely a place where they can be seen witout a purchase... perhaps the historical society, newberry, etcetctc and if one does catch your fancy of the four shown, planting your cursor on the image, and a right click SAVE AS will do the job...

more free stuff.... from a friend Hello All, Here are some more places to check for free genealogy stuff... Free USA Genealogy Stuff Online - Charts, Forms, and Online Records http://www.researchguides.net/free.htm Some Free Online Census Records Indexes - USA http://www.researchguides.net/census/free.htm Free Genealolgy Stuff - England & Wales http://www.researchguides.net/englandwales.htm Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe

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I wish to personally thank all whom has made this possible. The photos are a real flash back of time. This man was amazing to think of doing this. I travel somewhat and the photo's I have and this idea has given me new ideas to "Keep me off the streets" LOL I have Multiple Sclerosis. This work is amazing and a total pleasure to view. Thank you for posting. ~Dianna Saracco~ Coast of NC , born and raised Chicago area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen Plourde To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:23 AM Subject: [IL-CHICAGO] Chicago Photos from the 40's and 50's The Newberry Library's genealogy news page has alerted us to more goodies available for free online. I check this site about once a week for valuable resources and workshops: http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?id=150&action=single The mention was this: the link was provided to the following Chicago Journal article: 11/2006 10:00:00 PM One camera, one Chicago Charles Cushman's photos vividly capture the city before urban renewal By HAYDN BUSH, Managing editor The bustle of the Maxwell Street market. Charles Cushman documented a vanishing city in the 1940s and 1950s. Photos courtesy of Indiana University Archives Cushman was especially enthralled by vibrant city street life, shooting untold rolls of film on Maxwell Street. At first take, Charles Cushman's photos are breathtaking simply because of the abundant color found in nearly every image. An amateur photographer of Americana who spent the better part of four decades snapping everything in sight, Cushman's collection is first notable because of the Kodachrome color film he used at a time when most serious photographers stuck to black and white. But for Chicagoans, Cushman's photos are more than just a bright peek into a past. Cushman, a man of somewhat independent means who worked intermittently for most of his life, first came to Chicago in 1919 and was an off-and-on resident and visitor over the next four decades, taking more than 1,200 photos of the city. Mostly, though, Cushman worked in a handful of inner-city neighborhoods in the 1940s and 1950s, at a time when postwar prosperity and urban renewal was just beginning to transform city life. Thanks to Cushman, bygone neighborhoods and ways of life were captured in full color, sometimes only a year or two before they were destroyed. His photo collection, recently archived online by Indiana University, contains images of horse-drawn carts traversing the brick-paved streets of the Maxwell Street area, an ice cream vendor using a pulley to service a customer on the second floor of a walkup at Halsted and Cabrini, and children playing behind a tenement building at Grand and Sangamon. Cushman put down his camera in the late 1960s and bequeathed nearly all of his collection of Kodachrome slides to Indiana University, his alma mater, who received the slides when he died in 1972. For 25 years, Cushman's photos languished in storage. In the summer of 1999, Bradley Cook, Indiana University's photography curator, happened upon the collection in a university storage building. Cook was leafing through of some of Cushman's more quotidian photos of trees and flowers when he came across photographs of Emmett Kelly, a renowned circus clown who worked for Ringling Bros. "I'd never seen a color image of Emmett Kelly before," Cook said. Soon after that, Cook, a Chicago-area native, discovered Cushman's Chicago photographs. At an unrelated meeting a short time later with Richard Remsberg, then the Photographic Support Coordinator at Indiana's School of Journalism, the two men discovered that they both had been sent parts of Cushman's massive collection. Soon, Cook was soon scheming to catalogue the 14,000 photos. The project took several years to develop; Cook had to line up grant funding, sort the unorganized slides and send some of the photos to a Swedish photo institute to correct images that had shifted to red over time. The project went online in October 2003, and can be found at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp. While Cushman lived much of his later life in San Francisco-and was fascinated by Western landscapes as well-nearly 10 percent of the collection is devoted to Chicago. And a high percentage of those shots center around the Near West Side and Bronzeville, in neighborhoods later demolished to make way for CHA housing projects, the Eisenhower expressway and, ultimately, the University of Illinois-Chicago. "The Chicago pictures truly document a lost world: unlike the streets that Cushman shot in lower Manhattan, the blocks that he walked in Chicago's so-called Black Belt would, in great part, be soon destroyed," writes Eric Sandweiss, a professor of history at Indiana University, on Cushman's website. Indeed, the Chicago photos capture the clamor for urban renewal alongside its destructive failures. A forlorn frame house at 628 W. 13th Street reveals abject decrepitude, with a rotting wooden facade, broken windows and an off-kilter frame with little hope of redemption. For some slum shots, Cushman's notebook recorded his horror of the squalid living conditions with the simple line "people live here." But other photos reveal rich street life that has long since been demolished. A photo taken near 14th and Sangamon in the late 1940s depicts two well-dressed women strolling past a thriving meat market, housed in a mixed-use building with a stone facade that is reminiscent of buildings that remain to this day a few blocks south in Pilsen. "Cushman's search for colorful street life and rich architectural detail led him into neighborhoods on the brink-communities held momentarily together by an all-purpose corner store or a particularly sociable front stoop-but places nonetheless threatened with survival," Sandweiss writes. "It is only in retrospect, after the urban-renewal era and after the widespread departure of industrial worksites from the central city, that we can judge just how great, in the 1940s and 1950s, that threat was." Even when Cushman wasn't dutifully recording slum life, he had a flair for the picturesque. There are scores of photos of sunbathers on Lake Michigan, the circus, blooming flowers in Jackson Park, or local parades, including a Polish festival on Augusta Boulevard. And regardless of whether Cushman was deliberately aiming his camera at nostalgia, his now-recovered photos have had that effect on thousands of visitors to the website. "Somebody emailed me and said "'I hate your Cushman site because it's all I [look at] at work every day,'" Cook says. Cook says the university has received hundreds of requests for prints from visitors to the website. A Chicago woman wanted a print of two houses on the 1800 block of South Prairie Avenue, where her large Italian family lived in adjoining buildings until they were demolished in 1968. Another woman wrote to say that one of the Cushman's pictures in Italy immortalized the place where her parents met, while a Utah businessman came across a photo of Texas cotton fields that instantly took him back to his youth. "He was picking cotton in Texas at that time as a boy, and he wanted that image to hang on his office wall," Cook says. For Cook, whose job at Indiana University brings him into contact with photography collections on a regular basis, Cushman's greatest accomplishment may have taken place off-camera. Cushman kept a meticulous notebook that recorded the exact time and place of nearly every photo, though rarely the people being shot. Out of 14,000 photos, Cook says that roughly 20 have insufficient caption information. "I'll never come across another collection like this," Cook says, "simply because of the amount of images and level of description. He has everything. For the most part, you know exactly where he is." Ellen Plourde http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~opindex/ ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe: Send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

The Newberry Library's genealogy news page has alerted us to more goodies available for free online. I check this site about once a week for valuable resources and workshops: http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?id=150&action=single The mention was this: the link was provided to the following Chicago Journal article: 11/2006 10:00:00 PM One camera, one Chicago Charles Cushman’s photos vividly capture the city before urban renewal By HAYDN BUSH, Managing editor The bustle of the Maxwell Street market. Charles Cushman documented a vanishing city in the 1940s and 1950s. Photos courtesy of Indiana University Archives Cushman was especially enthralled by vibrant city street life, shooting untold rolls of film on Maxwell Street. At first take, Charles Cushman’s photos are breathtaking simply because of the abundant color found in nearly every image. An amateur photographer of Americana who spent the better part of four decades snapping everything in sight, Cushman’s collection is first notable because of the Kodachrome color film he used at a time when most serious photographers stuck to black and white. But for Chicagoans, Cushman’s photos are more than just a bright peek into a past. Cushman, a man of somewhat independent means who worked intermittently for most of his life, first came to Chicago in 1919 and was an off-and-on resident and visitor over the next four decades, taking more than 1,200 photos of the city. Mostly, though, Cushman worked in a handful of inner-city neighborhoods in the 1940s and 1950s, at a time when postwar prosperity and urban renewal was just beginning to transform city life. Thanks to Cushman, bygone neighborhoods and ways of life were captured in full color, sometimes only a year or two before they were destroyed. His photo collection, recently archived online by Indiana University, contains images of horse-drawn carts traversing the brick-paved streets of the Maxwell Street area, an ice cream vendor using a pulley to service a customer on the second floor of a walkup at Halsted and Cabrini, and children playing behind a tenement building at Grand and Sangamon. Cushman put down his camera in the late 1960s and bequeathed nearly all of his collection of Kodachrome slides to Indiana University, his alma mater, who received the slides when he died in 1972. For 25 years, Cushman’s photos languished in storage. In the summer of 1999, Bradley Cook, Indiana University’s photography curator, happened upon the collection in a university storage building. Cook was leafing through of some of Cushman’s more quotidian photos of trees and flowers when he came across photographs of Emmett Kelly, a renowned circus clown who worked for Ringling Bros. "I’d never seen a color image of Emmett Kelly before," Cook said. Soon after that, Cook, a Chicago-area native, discovered Cushman’s Chicago photographs. At an unrelated meeting a short time later with Richard Remsberg, then the Photographic Support Coordinator at Indiana’s School of Journalism, the two men discovered that they both had been sent parts of Cushman’s massive collection. Soon, Cook was soon scheming to catalogue the 14,000 photos. The project took several years to develop; Cook had to line up grant funding, sort the unorganized slides and send some of the photos to a Swedish photo institute to correct images that had shifted to red over time. The project went online in October 2003, and can be found at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp. While Cushman lived much of his later life in San Francisco—and was fascinated by Western landscapes as well—nearly 10 percent of the collection is devoted to Chicago. And a high percentage of those shots center around the Near West Side and Bronzeville, in neighborhoods later demolished to make way for CHA housing projects, the Eisenhower expressway and, ultimately, the University of Illinois-Chicago. "The Chicago pictures truly document a lost world: unlike the streets that Cushman shot in lower Manhattan, the blocks that he walked in Chicago’s so-called Black Belt would, in great part, be soon destroyed," writes Eric Sandweiss, a professor of history at Indiana University, on Cushman’s website. Indeed, the Chicago photos capture the clamor for urban renewal alongside its destructive failures. A forlorn frame house at 628 W. 13th Street reveals abject decrepitude, with a rotting wooden facade, broken windows and an off-kilter frame with little hope of redemption. For some slum shots, Cushman’s notebook recorded his horror of the squalid living conditions with the simple line "people live here." But other photos reveal rich street life that has long since been demolished. A photo taken near 14th and Sangamon in the late 1940s depicts two well-dressed women strolling past a thriving meat market, housed in a mixed-use building with a stone facade that is reminiscent of buildings that remain to this day a few blocks south in Pilsen. "Cushman’s search for colorful street life and rich architectural detail led him into neighborhoods on the brink—communities held momentarily together by an all-purpose corner store or a particularly sociable front stoop—but places nonetheless threatened with survival," Sandweiss writes. "It is only in retrospect, after the urban-renewal era and after the widespread departure of industrial worksites from the central city, that we can judge just how great, in the 1940s and 1950s, that threat was." Even when Cushman wasn’t dutifully recording slum life, he had a flair for the picturesque. There are scores of photos of sunbathers on Lake Michigan, the circus, blooming flowers in Jackson Park, or local parades, including a Polish festival on Augusta Boulevard. And regardless of whether Cushman was deliberately aiming his camera at nostalgia, his now-recovered photos have had that effect on thousands of visitors to the website. "Somebody emailed me and said "‘I hate your Cushman site because it’s all I [look at] at work every day,’" Cook says. Cook says the university has received hundreds of requests for prints from visitors to the website. A Chicago woman wanted a print of two houses on the 1800 block of South Prairie Avenue, where her large Italian family lived in adjoining buildings until they were demolished in 1968. Another woman wrote to say that one of the Cushman’s pictures in Italy immortalized the place where her parents met, while a Utah businessman came across a photo of Texas cotton fields that instantly took him back to his youth. "He was picking cotton in Texas at that time as a boy, and he wanted that image to hang on his office wall," Cook says. For Cook, whose job at Indiana University brings him into contact with photography collections on a regular basis, Cushman’s greatest accomplishment may have taken place off-camera. Cushman kept a meticulous notebook that recorded the exact time and place of nearly every photo, though rarely the people being shot. Out of 14,000 photos, Cook says that roughly 20 have insufficient caption information. "I’ll never come across another collection like this," Cook says, "simply because of the amount of images and level of description. He has everything. For the most part, you know exactly where he is." Ellen Plourde http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~opindex/

write to the city personnnel office... if the person is living, get a release from them to send copies of their full files to you at your address soNso signed and notarized... if not living, provide your relationship and copy of death cert...... don't expect much but you might get a copy of an employee card... and if there were an image you might be lucky to get that... keep a copy of all you send, including any originals... they don't need the original on the first pass at least...until you have a specific name of a person to write to (if they were to correspond back without sending anything) and then you can send the original and ask for it back....send a copy as well... or get the notary to state that theoriginal was seen.... and notarize that as well... ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Rosenberg<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:49 PM Subject: [IL-CHICAGO] finding city employee A relative was listed as a city employee in the Chicago City Directory of 1896. (low-level employee). Another relative was a city employee in the 1920's according to death certificate. How would I find out more information about either of these? Susan Rosenberg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com<http://mail.yahoo.com/> ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe: Send a message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx>

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Marilyn You have a FHC in Orland Orland Park Illinois 13150 South 88th Avenue Orland Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States Phone: 708-361-5474 Hours: T 6:30pm-9:30 pm; W 12pm-4pm , 6:30pm-9:30pm; Th 10am-2pm , 6:30pm-9:30pm; Sat 10am-2pm Arleen > > > Cynthia, can you tell us which library you found that is also > an FHC branch? How can one determine whether one's own > library (I'm out here in Orland > Park) is an FHC branch? > > Thank you. > > Marilyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: ChicagoGenealogy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] LDS rolls.... > > Yes . . . Also, libraries are open more hours per week than > most FHCs which > gives greater accessibility to films once they come in and that's > particularly important now that the rental fee has climbed > from $3.25 to > $5.50. Also, in my neck of the woods, the public library > that's a FHC > branch not only has great readers (push-button scrolling), > but they also > have $.05 copies. > > Cynthia > > > it would behoove researchers to check their OWN regular > PUBLIClibrary > > to see if that library is now considered a BRANCH... there are many > > libraries which are now...and if YOUR regular public > library is not a > > branch but has an interlibrary loan program and might be in an area > > without a FHC, it could be a good thing for the library to > pursue! ! ! > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your > family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added > in the last 12 months. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > > ==== > IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your > ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006

Thank you, Cynthia. Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: ChicagoGenealogy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] LDS rolls.... The two library-based FHC branches that I know about are Newberry and Arlington Heights. I don't think it's too common for public libraries to have that status, but the best way to find out about your local library is to ask. Newberry (goes without saying, I know) and Arlington Heights are both libraries with strong genealogical collections and so it was natural for them to arrange to have the FHL connection . . . Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Krzus" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:49 AM Subject: RE: [IL-CHICAGO] LDS rolls.... > Cynthia, can you tell us which library you found that is also an FHC > branch? How can one determine whether one's own library (I'm out here in > Orland > Park) is an FHC branch? ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe: Send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx