Searching for a birth announcement, obit, or any other article on Pasco Connell. Born Dec 25, 1868 or 1870. Died May 1, 1944 in Beloit Hospital. Beloit Wis. buried May 4, 1944 at Eastlawn Cemetery. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Connie At 07:09 PM 5/15/02 -0500, you wrote: >Barbara (Saxbury) Freeman > >What kind of help are you seeking? > >Walter > >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > >==== IL-OLD-NEWS Mailing List ==== >Illinois Newspapers >http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com/IL/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Dear Friends, I was wondering if SKS might have obits for Frederick (d. 1891-04-14) & Lotta (d. 1864) RATHJE, of Peotone, IL or others of RATHJE Family. I have Henry A., RATHJE, but would appreciate you e-mailing info on Willhelmina, or 2d wife, Katherine (Koenecke) (b. ?, Hanover Germany, to US. in 1884) or any of the children, including Paul William (d. 1969-02-18). In advance, Many Thanx, Walter God Bless America Walter (Joan) X. McElligott P. O. B. 452, Beecher, Illinois 60401-0452 (42 mi S. of Chicago's Loop) PS. What newspapers covered Will Co., IL betw. 1820-1900?

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hi, At one time it was common practice to have several towns of the same name in the state, and many towns and cities had former names with a few having had several, so if you have used a current map to find an old town name you may have created your very own brick walls or even worse you have connected with the wrong lines. "Bloomfield" is an excellent example of this common practice, just look at any current map and find it now in Johnson County close to Vienna, in 1958 it had a population of 80. Did you know there was another Bloomfield in Adams County? Close to Quincy, in 1958 it had a population of 25. There were others in Edgar, Fulton, Greene, Johnson and Scott Counties and all were spelled "Bloomfield." Plus precincts in Johnson and Scott Counties by the same name of "Bloomfield." Nine localities, all named "Bloomfield." Do you need more examples, maybe hundreds of examples? Sure hope you can easily see the point i am trying to make... many genealogies are out there now with improper connections because an inexperienced genealogist has picked the wrong county and matched up the wrong "SMITH" or "JONES" or "WHOEVER" because they thought they had the right county to chose from. Wrong connections are now made as the names that were available in that county were close so they figured a few misspellings or similar names would suffice. Or the town was the correct town but the county changed several times? Some still can't make the connection and are experienced enough to know that close doesn't always count, so they know they have hit a brickwall. My suggestion is that you jot down the towns your ancestors are known to have lived in and look them up on the statewide list of over 15,750 place names using your Ctrl/f keys to do the search. Copy down each county that each town appears in after the town name and you'll probably be amazed to find that instead of them moving all around the state they lived in a few neighboring counties. For details of when the town was active you could consult the web pages listed below for the 25 Northeast Counties as those are now online, the 44 South Counties will have details online beginning later this month, and the last 33 West Counties should have details online beginning this summer. When those new pages are up and running i'll send out an updated e-mail here and i'll post it on each Rootsweb county list as each county becomes available for research. The following web pages are enormous and each will take over four minutes to download if your connection is a dial up modem and AOL is NOT busy and your computer is PROPERLY tuned. If you get a message that AOL is busy just rapidly tap on your reload button a few times and AOL wakes up and lets you in. It works for me as i use the IE browser instead of the AOL browser... here are the url's: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/writing.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of Each Illinois County</A> is a statewide list of over 15,750 towns, cities and townships known to have ever existed, grouped by county, covers all 102 counties. Each county now has "last updated date: brief description of the last update" at the beginning of each county listing. Each county has it's own listing of US Post Offices of 1859/60. For the 25 Northeast Counties, if a dash (-) after the name that indicates it is either obsolete or you won't find it on most current maps, but it may appear on an older more detailed map, and as other counties are completed this will show on them as well. If i determined a listing was made either in error or it conflicts with other more reliable sources i've listed the source of information. This is the most complete list of its kind to be found anywhere. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/tv.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Northeast 25 Counties</A> is a detailed list of everything known about each town, city and township, with over 5280 listings. Each county now has "last updated date: brief description of the last update" at the beginning of each county listing. Each county has it's own listing of US Post Offices of 1859/60 as well as a listing of the 1876 RR's and the towns the RR ran through. When the list is complete, as the first 17 of the 25 counties are, the following will be listed on each town or city, if known, in this order: how it got it's name; former name; alias name; later name; present name; a dash (-) after the name indicates it is either obsolete or you won't find it on most current maps; the township the town or city is in; another county the town may overlap into; date of incorporation; elevation; railroad name of old and new; (Post Office history of: former name; when established and in which county; when discontinued; new name if changed; if active and the current zip); RFD in 1960 or 1990 mail to town; and 1990 population. For each township, if known: how it got its name; former name; later name; every town that has ever been in that particular township; currently the town that accepts mail for this township; and 1990 population. The following 17 counties are completely done: Boone, Champaign, De Kalb, De Witt, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McLean, Putnam, Tazewell, Vermilion, and Woodford. The following eight counties are not yet completely done, each has all towns and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960, but lacks the next 30 years, and in the next month will be brought up to 1990: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, Will, and Winnebago. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dennisvcarter1/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Southeast 44 Counties</A> is in development and will begin later this month, with over 5261 listings. Will start off with all towns, cities and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960 and current information, up to 1990, will follow in the summer or fall. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dcarter956/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the 33 Western Counties</A> is in development and will begin later this summer, with over 5209 listings. Will start off with all towns, cities and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960 and current information, up to 1990, will follow in the fall or winter. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/livingstoncounty/myhomepage/tv.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Timeline for Genealogy</A> is from the year 1400 to present, a chronological history of Illinois, United States, Germanic, British, France, and other European countries, each of these events have a bearing on family history. This list has been designed to help you also study your other lines that lived outside Illinois and each of the several thousand entries has been cited with its own source, over two dozen sources cited, and links to "the rest of the story" in many cases. This is the most complete list of its kind to be found anywhere. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/livingstoncounty/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Family History Research: Genealogy</A> is a master index of every family known to have lived in this county from 1831-1985. Several thousand surnames are listed alphabetically and each surname has each source cited, several hundred surnames have multiple sources cited, and 30 sources have so far been used. Many of these sources are online so you can easily confirm your suspicions of connections within a few minutes. Sources include records from biographies, cemetery, census, church, death, land and deed, marriages, military, etc., and a system is used so that by looking at the code following a surname you'll know the decade the record came from as well as the type of record and actual source. Many researchers from other states have found quickly found their missing connections from this index and i challenge other researchers to do this with a county of their choosing so others may quickly confirm their connections and be encouraged to research their roots. Hard to use the keyword and eat popcorn so i'll have to close for now... btw i buy my popcorn already popped and butter flavored in jumbo 36 ounce bags so it saves time and isn't oily... do wish it wouldn't hide out in my beard! 8>:{}##] happy hunting dennis

In a message dated 3/30/2002 10:21:06 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Does anyone have access to the Alton Telegraph, from 1836 to 1842? > > What replaced it when it ceased publication? > When did the Alton Telegraph cease publication. I was there last year and it was still running.

In Alton the Telegraph began in March 1836 and ran thru March 1841. The name then changed to Telegraph & Democratic Review in 1841 followed by Telegraph, My Democratic Review in 1850; Telegraph & Madison County Record in 1853; then finally back to Telegraph in 1861. You can order copies of the microfilm thru inter-library loan from your local library or you can view them in person at the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield IL. Barbara (Saxbury) Freeman http://NewspaperAbstracts.com Finding our ancestors in the news! http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org Pike Co ILGenWeb http://Saxbury.net Saxbury Family History http://members.aol.com/saxbury AOL Members Genealogy Web Sites http://AutumnWindz.com Autumn Windz Soaps & Supplies

Does anyone have access to the Alton Telegraph, from 1836 to 1842? What replaced it when it ceased publication? Thanks Marita

Is there anyone on this list who has access to Tazewell County IL newspapers for a look up of marriage announcements for the persons and dates listed below? The location may be in the Delavan part of that county. WINANS, JOHN W to BILYN / BILYEU, HANNAH TAZEWELL 03/10/1865 BIRD, PHILIP A to WININGS, SARAH J TAZEWELL 02/06/1867 Sincerely, Jim LaRue in NJ

I am looking for an old newspaper that may have listed the marriage of my Husband's Grandfather, Stanley SHARKEY to Helen LELASH/LALASH some time between 1900 and 1902 in possibly Spring Valley, Bureau County, Illinois or LaSalle County, Illinois. They both were single on the 1900 Census and living in Spring Valley, Bureau County, Illinois. Their first child was born in October 1903 so I think I have the years 1900 to 1902 narrowed down. We are also looking for a possible death notice in the above town or county papers for Stanley SHARKEY who died 23 June 1910, buried 25 June 1910 possibly Spring Valley, Illinois. As I am residing in New Zealand, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all. Georgea Sharkey [email protected]

For those searching for newspaper articles on their ancestors, regardless of which way you choose to obtain the article you will need to know the individuals name, date of event and location. Many times this information is not known which is one reason you want to find an article in the first place. While searching microfilmed newspapers for my ancestors I recognized many surnames that others in the area were researching and began copying this information and sending it thru local mail lists in an effort to help others in their search. Out of this grew the idea of providing a central location to archive these articles for all to search and hopefully provide that tidbit of information for someone to knock down that brick wall. On that note..... The goal of http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com and the IL-Old-News mail list is to provide a place for all to share news articles from newspapers published before 1931. These articles are provided by list members and site visitors along with County and State Coordinators who transcribe items they have and submit them thru this list for inclusion in this project. The site and mail list is available to all at no cost and we are always looking individuals interested in helping with this project. For more information on how you can help see: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/volunteer.html How you can find that article of interest: We do not provide lookup services however you are free to request lookups thru the list in the hopes that a fellow listmember may search for the article on your behalf. When requesting a lookup provide the name of the subject you are looking for, the date the event occured along with the town and county. There are millions of pages of microfilmed newspapers on well over 77,000 rolls of microfilm for Illinois alone and any request without this basic information will most likely be ignored. Most (not all) libraries have microfilmed copies of newspapers published in their area and many will do lookup requests for a small charge or donation. Contact by phone, letter or email the library in the area you are searching for their lookup policy. Illinois newspapers are available on microfilm thru interlibrary loan. To find the newspapers available for the location you are interested in do a search at: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/mergeddatabase/search_form.asp Copy down all of the information given for the newspaper you are interested in borrowing and take this information to the inter-library loan department at your local library. You will also need to provide them with the month and year you are wanting to borrow as most titles are on more than one microfilm reel. There is a small charge (usually under $3.00) for this service and some libraries pass on this fee to their patrons. Interlibrary loan is my preferred method for obtaining articles. While looking thru the reels I usually run across other items of value to my research that I would have otherwise not found had I not been reading the microfilm myself. You can request a lookup in newspapers or other materials at the Illinois State Historical Library. See the "Newspaper Search Policy" near the end of the page at this site: http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/ishlgen.htm For out of state residents it is typically less expensive to borrow the microfilm thru interlibrary loan than have them perform the lookup for you. Again, they do require exact names, dates and locations before they will do a search. Another site for obituary lookups - not associated with our site or list - can be found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obitl/ For more state newspaper lists associated with us see: http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com/maillists.html Good luck in your search! Barbara (Saxbury) Freeman http://NewspaperAbstracts.com Finding our ancestors in the news! http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org Pike Co ILGenWeb http://Saxbury.net Saxbury Family History http://members.aol.com/saxbury AOL Members Genealogy Web Sites http://AutumnWindz.com Autumn Windz Soaps & Supplies

Newspapers are available on microfilm thru inter-library loan for Spring Valley, Bureau Co, IL thru the Illinois State Historical Library including: Note: In these date spans there will be missing issues. The dates given are the entire range of years noted. Bureau County Republican: May 1989 - Mar 1994 Gazette: Jul 1913 - Jun 1987 Valley Times: Jun 1968 Barbara (Saxbury) Freeman http://NewspaperAbstracts.com Finding our ancestors in the news! http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org Pike Co ILGenWeb http://Saxbury.net Saxbury Family History http://members.aol.com/saxbury AOL Members Genealogy Web Sites http://AutumnWindz.com Autumn Windz Soaps & Supplies

Thank you Barbara. My 3x Gr grandmother remarried to a Lisle and her Overstreet sons and their families moved to Missouri around 1870. I would love to find some published mention of my family.... marriages, deaths, births, whatever. At 04:20 PM 3/1/2002 EST, you wrote: >Newspapers are available on microfilm thru inter-library loan for >Carlinville, Macoupin Co, IL thru the Illinois State Historical Library ...<snip>

Newspapers are available on microfilm thru inter-library loan for Carlinville, Macoupin Co, IL thru the Illinois State Historical Library including: Note: In these date spans there will be missing issues. The dates given are the entire range of years noted. Blackburn Gazette: May 1872 Conservative: Mar to June 1868 Free Democrat: Sep 1856 to Mar 1867 Democrat: Mar 1867 to Mar 1975 Enquirer: Aug 1896 to Jul 1918 Macoupin County Argus: Jan 1902 to Apr 1906 Macoupin County Enquirer (aka): Macoupin Statesman: Sep 1852 to Sep 1853 Macoupin Spectator: May 1855, Jun 1856 & Jun 1858 Spectator: Jan 1859 to May 1868 Macoupin Times: Jan 1868 to May 1870 Macoupin Enquirer: Nov 1871 to Dec 1878 Macoupin County Enquirer: May 1880 to Apr 1886 Macoupin County Herald: Mar to Dec 1879 Barbara (Saxbury) Freeman http://NewspaperAbstracts.com Finding our ancestors in the news! http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org Pike Co ILGenWeb http://Saxbury.net Saxbury Family History http://members.aol.com/saxbury AOL Members Genealogy Web Sites http://AutumnWindz.com Autumn Windz Soaps & Supplies

Hello, This is basically just a hello and get acquainted note. I was pleased to see the notice from Rootsweb of the creation of this list. I am wondering just how far back does the data base on these old newspapers go? Or is there actually a data base? I am particularly interested in papers from around 1850 (+ - 10 years) from Carlinville in Macoupin county. My ancestor Leroy Overstreet, was a blacksmith there and died in January 1849 at age 37. I have always been curious as to the cause. Disease? Accident? I know that yellow fever and cholera were killing many people during this period. Nancy Cook