Have you looked at the list of IRAD holdings? I know Cook County listed that they had Guardianship records, and I was able to get copies from 1884 when my Great Great Grandmother died and left 6 dependent children..... Pattie

Is there a web site that gives the holdings of records at the IRAD? Thanks Florence -----Original Message----- From: Pattie Schultz <PattieS@compuserve.com> To: ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com <ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Guardianship records >Have you looked at the list of IRAD holdings? I know Cook County listed >that they had Guardianship records, and I was able to get copies from 1884 >when my Great Great Grandmother died and left 6 dependent children..... > > >Pattie >

Shirley, I'm glad to hear about the color copier at Mail Boxes Etc. I went to mine to try it but they were out of toner. When I went back the next day, they were still out of toner! I had tried the color copier on sepia toned pictures at Kinkos and didn't like them, but will give MBE a try for the color photos. Thanks for the information and happy holidays, Adrianne

In a message dated 12/9/99 7:23:18 PM, fnotch@wcta.net writes: << Anyone know if DuPage Co. kept a record of guardianship in the mid 1800's? Thanks Florence >> I will ask at the Wheaton library and see what they have. Cid

I have found an alternative to the Kodak Photo machine. My MailBoxes, etc., place recommended that I make color copies of my black and white pictures. I was a little reluctant to spend that much money (2.50 for 11x17, as opposed to 7 cents b&W copier), but I did a few. We crammed as many as we could on the 11x17 and they were wonderful! This is a color laser copier. They were almost better than the original, fine detail, etc. I would recommend trying it to see if you like the results. Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: <ConsultAGB@aol.com> To: <ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 5:36 PM Subject: [ILDUPAGE] Photo Copying > Hi All, > > I have also been using the Kodak Photo machine to reproduce old pictures - > some from the early 1880s with good results. It has not been too cost > prohibitive because my sisters and I are all getting 3x5 copies and we do it > only when we have coupons. Osco often offers one for 99cents with another at > full price. Walgreen's is always 2 sheets for 9.99 and just had a special > where you got a sheet free - only had to pay the tax, so I made presents for > a number of relatives. K-Mart also has specials. I always check the Sunday > ads. > > Happy holidays to all, > Adrianne >

Message text written by INTERNET:ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com >I have also been using the Kodak Photo machine to reproduce old pictures - some from the early 1880s with good results. It has not been too cost prohibitive because my sisters and I are all getting 3x5 copies and we do it only when we have coupons. Osco often offers one for 99cents with another at full price. Walgreen's is always 2 sheets for 9.99 and just had a special where you got a sheet free - only had to pay the tax, so I made presents for a number of relatives. K-Mart also has specials. I always check the Sunday ads. < Thanks for the tip! I'll have to check out Kmart down here in Tampa! Pattie

Hi All, I have also been using the Kodak Photo machine to reproduce old pictures - some from the early 1880s with good results. It has not been too cost prohibitive because my sisters and I are all getting 3x5 copies and we do it only when we have coupons. Osco often offers one for 99cents with another at full price. Walgreen's is always 2 sheets for 9.99 and just had a special where you got a sheet free - only had to pay the tax, so I made presents for a number of relatives. K-Mart also has specials. I always check the Sunday ads. Happy holidays to all, Adrianne

Anyone know if DuPage Co. kept a record of guardianship in the mid 1800's? Thanks Florence

I have the Photosmart Scanner and Printer. They are excellent. ----- Original Message ----- From: <EJ1000000@aol.com> To: <ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Reproducing Family Photos > I would suggest a less costly method of reproducing photos with the HP > Digital copier/printer/scanner. You can enlarge the photo or copy it as it is > without the computer for a low cost. When you enlarge a 4x6 photo to 8x11 > WOW! Go to any Office Depot or Office Max and try this one of the diplay HP > copiers. You will be shocked. There are printers that do not use the water > soluble ink like most printers. These are available from a mail order photo > supplier in NY or your local Comp USA. > > Gary Johnson > Director > Clinical Research Institute > >

I would suggest a less costly method of reproducing photos with the HP Digital copier/printer/scanner. You can enlarge the photo or copy it as it is without the computer for a low cost. When you enlarge a 4x6 photo to 8x11 WOW! Go to any Office Depot or Office Max and try this one of the diplay HP copiers. You will be shocked. There are printers that do not use the water soluble ink like most printers. These are available from a mail order photo supplier in NY or your local Comp USA. Gary Johnson Director Clinical Research Institute

Dear Listers; I have been collecting family photos for the last two years. Usually when I've made contact with a long lost relative, I'll eventually ask them if they have any pictures of 'Uncle ...... or Aunt ......'. I've had very good luck, and usually the individual will entrust me or my sister with the pictures long enough to scan them. Now, I have access to many printers where I work, but have never been happy with the quality of the pictures when I try to print them out on either the photo paper or other high quality paper. I think with newer pictures it works better, but since these pictures are any where from 50 to 100 years old, they just never come out 'right'. So, what I did was go to Walgreens and look into their picture machine. Armed with a diskette with a couple of pictures save in 'jpg' format I was able to get prints that were as good or better than the originals. One was a family picture, quite small of about 19 people. The clarity was amazing, and at $6.99 a sheet, quite reasonable. A sheet can be 1 8x10, 2 5/7, so on and so forth. I printed 8 to sheet and they still are large enough that you can see the people's faces quite well. I just wanted to share this with all the lists. You may already have discovered this, but just in case, I thought you might need some last minute Christmas ideas. Plus I hear Martha Stewart dedicated one Christmas tree last night to family pictures! As for me, my Uncle Newt is getting a framed picture of himself, and various family members for Christmas. It was taken in 1918, and I think he will be pleasantly surprised! Merry Christmas Pattie Researching Pahlke/Schwemm/Blum/Nordmeyer/Friedland/Schnetlage/Hardacre/Lyons /Shuster/Dvorak/Willard/Carbary/Hoffman/Funk/Grever/Zidek/Pepper/Jahnke/Reth meier http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/1030

TO: A Wheaton Resident I am attempting to obtain from the DuPage Historical Society a copy of an 1862 Map of DuPage County. Unfortunately they will not provide it by mail. I would like to find someone who lives in Wheaton who would be able to go to the Society's museum and pickup the copy and mail it to me. I will reimburse them for all expenses involved. Thanks in advance, Richard F. Strait 7810 Grover Omaha, NE 68124-3328 402-393-2629 rfstrait@juno.com (attachments not allowed) PS: The map is rather large and will require a tube mailer!!! ___________________________________________________________________ Why pay more to get Web access? Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Thanks so much Sue! I really appreciate it :) Barry

Hi I saw your post. I still live in B'ville. 3 Pines is now a banquet hall Monty's. Quite the place for weddings and big parties. Sue Porreca

I talked to my Mom and just like I thought. She said it was called The Three Pines. It was right on the corner of York Road and George Street. Right when you turn left onto George Street off of York Road - it was right there on the left. She said she thinks they also served food there - kind of like a little restaurant. She and my Dad went there once. She said she thinks she had to go down there one time and pull my Dad out of there. He was drinking and watching TV with a family friend. I wonder if the name is changed or if the building is even still there at all. Anybody on the list who lives in DuPage county know? Barry Jernigan

At 07:43 AM 11/30/1999 EST, you wrote: >We lived on George Street in Bensenville when I was about 5 (1965). When I >was about 7 we moved to Wood Dale - Forest Preserve Drive. < >One more thing - I remember an outing to a place. I don't know the name of >the place. For some reason it has a military feel to it. There is a long >driveway - kind of like a boulevard. Along the sides the shoulders sloped >up. >Very white gravel was laid there. Here and there in among the gravel were >planted little shrubs. At the end of this long driveway was a big white >house. The lawn was well kept and very green. I am thinking it was some >kind >of club house? >Barry Jernigan >DuPage County names: Baker, Hampton, Pye > > >Could you be thinking of the "Cantigny War Museum" between Warrenville & Winfield?? Jim Bauer

Thanks for responding Jim. But from what I remember there were people drinking and smoking and sitting around talking in the kitchen and living room area of this place. I don't think that's acceptable behaviour for a museum ;-) Not any that I've been in anyway. Maybe it was somebody's house and I just don't remember it correctly - since I was only 5 years old when we went there. Thanks anyway Barry Jernigan

Thanks for the advice Susan :) But I live in TN now. I haven't been back to DuPage County since we moved from there after my parent's divorce in 1969. I don't think my parents even went to that bar when we lived there. I'll have to ask my Mom. But I could swear that it was on the corner of our street (George Street) and a main highway. Maybe I forgot all the details. I saw that 3 J's in the Yahoo Yellow Pages and that might be the place after all. Barry Jernigan

At 06:43 AM 11/30/1999 , FINCH64@aol.com wrote: >Right before we turned to go to our house on George Street there was I think >a bar. There was a sign with 3 pine trees on it. I think it was called "The >Three Pines". This place is embedded in my memory and I am wondering if it is >still there and what it is called - who the proprietors are. Maybe they might >send me a picture of this place or if someone knows where I can get one? From the Ameritech online yellow pages there are only two bars in Bensenville and one is: 3 J'S TAVERN 206 W Green St Bensenville, IL 60106 (630) 766-9769 According to my map program to get to your old house from the bar you would go east 0.2 miles on Green, turn south on South York Road then go 9 tenths of a mile to George Street. If you still live in Wood Dale it is only about 5 miles from your house, go have a beer. :o) I can't help with the rest. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ My Personal Page http://people.ce.mediaone.net/susantort/ The Illinois USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgenweb Shelby County ILGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilshelb2/shelby.htm Barry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality

We lived on George Street in Bensenville when I was about 5 (1965). When I was about 7 we moved to Wood Dale - Forest Preserve Drive. I am wondering if anyone on this list who is still in the area can help me. Right before we turned to go to our house on George Street there was I think a bar. There was a sign with 3 pine trees on it. I think it was called "The Three Pines". This place is embedded in my memory and I am wondering if it is still there and what it is called - who the proprietors are. Maybe they might send me a picture of this place or if someone knows where I can get one? Also my dad worked at a place called J B Clow. I don't remember what he did there. Does it still exist and would they have employee records from that time? Ditto for Mars Candy Company. He worked there after Clow. Is that still there? One more thing - I remember an outing to a place. I don't know the name of the place. For some reason it has a military feel to it. There is a long driveway - kind of like a boulevard. Along the sides the shoulders sloped up. Very white gravel was laid there. Here and there in among the gravel were planted little shrubs. At the end of this long driveway was a big white house. The lawn was well kept and very green. I am thinking it was some kind of club house? There is a large garage under the house on one side with room for quite a few vehicles. The ceiling in the parking area was very low. Up the stairs and inside was a small narrow kitchen area which led to a small dining area by a window. It looked like somebody's house but I don't think it was. I was about 5 when we went there. We lived in Bensenville so I am thinking it must be in that area. It's bugging me that I can't remember this place. I want to put all this info in my personal genealogy file along with old school records, military records, etc that I am collecting. Thanks Barry Jernigan DuPage County names: Baker, Hampton, Pye