This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gg.2ADE/134 Message Board Post: I need a little help with these guys: Ida Akens (could be spelled MANY ways) b. abt. 1861 m. to: Ed Jackson b. abt. 1854 had sons: Thomas Jackson George William Jackson m. Sarah May (Sallie) Anderson Bert Jackson John Jackson had daughter Gertrude m. (?) Prescott ************************ George Anderson b. abt 1816 m. to: Susan Avant had at least 1 child-McDonald Anderson ************************************************** Sarah Norris m. to: Newton Smith had daughter Samantha Smith (who m. McDonald Anderson) *********************************************** Sooo, it goes like this: 1) George Anderson~b. abt. 1816 + Susan Avant 2) McDonald Anderson + Samantha Smith 3) Sarah May (Sallie) Anderson + George William Jackson ************************************************************ 1) Newton Smith + Sarah Norris 2) Samantha Smith~b. abt. 1850 + McDonald Anderson~b. abt. 1848 3) Sarah May (Sallie) Anderson m. George William Jackson *************************************************************** 1) Ed Jackson~b. abt. 1854 + Ida Akens~b. abt. 1861 2) George William Jackson~b. 1880 + Sarah May (Sallie) Anderson~b. 1876 ************************************************************ I'm really having problems with Akens, Jackson, Norris, Avant, and Smith. Anyone have any clues or ideas on them? Thanks.... Cheryl

-----Original Message----- From: mary huston [mailto:mphuston@tds.net] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 1:19 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Sun Jun 22 11:19:06 2003 NAME: mary huston EMAIL: mphuston@tds.net URL: QRYTEXT: Interested in anyone connected to the Hatfield, Warnick, Wanick families. Jacob Warnick, John R Warnick, RoseAnn Hatfield.

-----Original Message----- From: r moffett [mailto:rmoffett@tls.com] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Thu Jun 19 11:14:08 2003 NAME: r moffett EMAIL: rmoffett@tls.com URL: QRYTEXT: To person researching Amile DeBrun, My uncle. have info .contact me.

-----Original Message----- From: Amy Durbin [mailto:adurbin@ilsos.net] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:27 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Sat Jun 14 10:26:46 2003 NAME: Amy Durbin EMAIL: adurbin@ilsos.net URL: QRYTEXT: Looking for the burial site of Ruth Durbin buried in Oak Hill Cemetery Taylorville, IL If anyone knows where it is please e-mail me and let me know. This is my great grandmothers site and can't find it.

-----Original Message----- From: Suzanne Davis [mailto:davis@ishoptech.com] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:00 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Sun Jun 15 10:59:35 2003 NAME: Suzanne Davis EMAIL: davis@ishoptech.com URL: QRYTEXT: Looking for info on Louis Fisher and Charlotte (Hoffee?)from Hannover, Germany. Immgrated to DuBois Co. in 1866. Had a son, William Sherman, in 1867 Cloverdale area. On the 1880 census in Assumption, IL with sisters: Rosetts, Anna and Susie. He was born in 1828ish. Need information on his or her death possibly in Christain Co. and their marriage here in IL possibly. She was from PA. born 1829ish.

If you are interested in seeing what we still have left over from the book sale, please contact me in private. Sincerely, Dan Dixon SCGS President

Has any thought been given towards making some of the publications available in electronic form? Censuses and Early Federal Land Sales would be good as a spreadsheet or searchable database. It would expand the uses of the existing material from genealogical into historical reseach regarding the county or townships or families - all kinds of stuff. Also, has anyone published the 19th century agricultural censuses?

When: 9-2, Where: 2856 S. 11th St., Springfield, Illinois. Sale items will include books, periodicals, maps and quarterly publications about genealogy and history. Also the society's publications relating specifically to Sangamon County. The sale is a fund-raiser as well as an open house for the public to become acquainted with the society, its membership and the resources it offers to anyone researching family history.

This list of known epidemics makes a helpful reference when researching individuals who disappear from local records suddenly, with no record of death. During major epidemics, people were often buried hurriedly and sometimes in mass graves. Taken from: www.genealogy-quest.com Nancy, researching: Baldridge, Cain, Courtney, Curtis, Carmichael, Dawkins, Doty, Garmon, Garrett, Jackson, McCormick, Matthews, Osborne, Robertson, Stampley, Stringer, Warren........and more! http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 South Carolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC Measles 1759 N. America Measles: areas inhabited by white people 1761 N. America and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. America Unknown epidemic: especially hard in NE 1775-6 Worldwide Influenza: one of the worst epidemics 1783 Dover, DE "Extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1793 Vermont A "putrid" fever and Influenza 1793 Virginia Influenza: killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever: over 4,000 deaths 1793 Harrisburg, PA Many unexplained deaths 1793 Middletown, PA Many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever: one of the worst 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide"Fever" - started Schuylkill River and spread 1822 New York and New Orleans Yellow Fever 1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera 1832 New Orleans Asiatic Cholera: over 1,000 deaths 1832 Ayrshire towns of Stevenston, Dalry and Kilbride Cholera 1833 Columbus, OH Cholera 1834 New York City Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever: especially severe in the south 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza 1848-9 North America Cholera 1849 New York Cholera 1849-50 New Orleans Cholera: 3,000 deaths 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1850 Alabama, New York Cholera 1850-1 North America Influenza 1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains and Missouri Cholera 1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1853 New Orleans Yellow Fever: 8,000 die 1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide Influenza: one of the greatest epidemics 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC Smallpox, a series of recurring epidemics of Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last great epidemic 1878 Memphis, TN Yellow Fever 1885 Chicago, IL water-borne disease 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1900 Galveston, TX Cholera 1902 Alaska measles 1905 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last US outbreak 1918 Worldwide[high point yr.] Influenza: more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps.

This was on one of my GA lists. I wish I knew who the author was. Nancy We Are the Chosen My feelings are, in each family, one is called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, Breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. And in finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish, How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, Their resoluteness to go on and build lives for their families. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to an understanding that they were doing it for us.....for the future, That we might be born who we are, That we might remember them. So we do..... With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, Because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, we tell the story of our families. It will be up to the ones called in the next generation To answer the call and take their places in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do family genealogy, And that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. [Author Unknown] Nancy Website: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 List Admin.: USCW-SEVEN_PINES; CARMICHAEL; GODBOLD; FAIRLEY Message Board Admin.: MISSOURI CIVIL WAR; FAIRLEY; GODBOLD; RICHMOND COUNTY, NC

-----Original Message----- From: Paul Yonker [mailto:pyonker@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:38 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Tue Jan 21 11:38:21 2003 NAME: Paul Yonker EMAIL: pyonker@worldnet.att.net URL: QRYTEXT: This message is to James Mills. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS NO LONGER VALID. I have information on Charles MONTOMERY and Ethel PRYOR

-----Original Message----- From: Teresa Rigney [mailto:teresar1248@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:32 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Wed May 7 10:31:30 2003 NAME: Teresa Rigney EMAIL: teresar1248@aol.com URL: QRYTEXT: Would like any information on Feilding Catlett Priest. He was born in 1838 in Putnum Co. Indiana and came to Christain Co. Ill. around 1882. He died in 1892 in Christain Co. His wife name was Martha Stadler. Had children Betty, Robert, Millie, Owen, Newton. Thanks for any information.

-----Original Message----- From: Penny Wyzlic [mailto:coppen1@msn.com] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 10:56 PM To: Morgan Edward Johnson Subject: Query: Christian County DATE: Sat May 17 20:56:10 2003 NAME: Penny Wyzlic EMAIL: coppen1@msn.com URL: QRYTEXT: Looking for any information on my father (Howard Anson Reed) and his parents Anson Reed and Dila (Cokenower) Reed. My father was born in Assumption July of l915

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gg.2ADE/133 Message Board Post: He is my father. I am 29 years old and was born in 1973 in Wichita,Kansas. I believe he may be living in Pocahontas, Ill. John would be around 52-53 born in Mo.If you have any information contact me jsmith816@cox.net Thank you

These are pages from a research directory site featuring English, Scottish, Welsh and Australian names. The Australian page is, also, a list of links. I was fortunate enough to find a link to a Welsh line I've just discovered! Click 'view' to see surnames being researched and e-mail addresses of researchers. You can, also, post your names Nancy English http://www.users.on.net/proformat/engnamesL.html Scottish http://www.users.on.net/proformat/sctnamesL.html Welsh http://www.users.on.net/proformat/wlsnames.html Australian http://www.users.on.net/proformat/links.html Nancy Website: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 List Admin.: USCW-SEVEN_PINES; CARMICHAEL; GODBOLD; FAIRLEY Message Board Admin.: MISSOURI CIVIL WAR; FAIRLEY; GODBOLD; RICHMOND COUNTY, NC

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gg.2ADE/132 Message Board Post: Scanned, printable images of original book are now online for your free use: http://distantcousin.com/Directories/IL/Pana/1914/

How long has genforum been off line?

Oak Hill Cem Richardson, James Randolph MO 3-2-1881 Wm. Riley 7-12-1933 Finley Cem Richardson, Wm 1822-1907 several Richardson's buried here in South Forth Twp cem Edinburg Cem Richardson, Wm E d 1922 several of them buried here also I could not find your others or a marriage for James. THANKS.....:-)* Sally Hathaway.... sjhathaway@aol.com

Try http://www.taylorville.net/cemetery/ Morgan -----Original Message----- From: TulsaRose@aol.com [mailto:TulsaRose@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:06 AM To: ILCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILCHRIST] Taylorville Cemetery Is there a complilation of names of the Christian Cemetery online? Thanks ==== ILCHRIST Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately? ============================== 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

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richardson, Ulrich, Ulrick, Therson, Iherson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gg.2ADE/131 Message Board Post: Looking for death date of James Richardson, son of William Richardson (born England) and Salvena Ulrich (born Prussia). James married Clara Iherson/Therson. James and Clara living in Assumption Twp., Christian Co., Illinois in 1910, 1920, and 1930(James was 70). I see deaths of two James Richardson in Illinois Archives, one on 7 Jul 1937 and a 2nd on 30 Jun 1930. James born ca. 1860, most likely in Illinois. Also looking for correct maiden name of Clara. Thanks for any assistance.