This was just posted to the Jefferson County list. Clinton and Marion Co folks might be interested in the first book listed below: Portrait and Biographical Record of Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties, Illinois", published by Chapman Publishing Co, of Chicago, 1894 http://www.archive.org/details/portraitbiograph94chic Frankie ========================= Researching HEINZMANN, CHERRY, WEDEKEMPER, SARGENT (Southern Illinois), REICHART, WOOD (Central Illinois) Family Scrapbook at http://www.heinzmannf.com -----Original Message----- From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Bauer Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:49 PM To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILJEFFER] 3 great books about Jefferson County,IL online and FREE now!! The book "Portrait and Biographical Record of Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counites, Illinois", published by Chapman Publishing Co, of Chicago, 1894 is now available online in PDF format for FREE!!!! I requested an inter-library loan for the book and was shocked when they called me and said they didn't have to do inter-library loan. The book was actually available online for free: The book is in PDF format so you can see what the original book looked like! http://www.archive.org/details/portraitbiograph94chic Not only that book but also Wall's 1909 book: http://www.archive.org/details/wallshistoryofje00wall And also the William Henry Perrin book too: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofjeffers00perr What a great source this website http://www.archive.org really is!!! -- Sandy (Whalen) Bauer http://www.whalen-family.org Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message