Hi, Betty, You've probably already gotten an answer, but it's in DuPage, in Addison township. Pat Sabin DuPage Co A.L.H.N. - http://www.usgennet.org/~ahildupa/ Betty Schlichting wrote: > > Hi, > Could someone tell me if Bensonville is in Kane or DuPage County? I just found out that my greatgrandmother died there in the Bensonville rest home. > > Her name was Charlotte Grotemeyer (various spellings) and my aunt said she died she thinks in 1939. Does this nursing home still exist? Do you think it would be possible to get records from there? > > Her husbands name was Ernest, I have no idea where they lived, all this time, I thought Elgin or Dundee, surprise! > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Betty

Try this site for the answer. http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco/townco.pl On Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:37 PM, Betty Schlichting [SMTP:betty@ndak.net] wrote: > Hi, > Could someone tell me if Bensonville is in Kane or DuPage County? I just found out that my greatgrandmother died there in the Bensonville rest home. > > Her name was Charlotte Grotemeyer (various spellings) and my aunt said she died she thinks in 1939. Does this nursing home still exist? Do you think it would be possible to get records from there? > > Her husbands name was Ernest, I have no idea where they lived, all this time, I thought Elgin or Dundee, surprise! > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Betty >

Bensenville (note the spelling) is in DuPage County, near the southwest corner of O'Hare Airport.

Yes it's BensEnville and it is in DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. I went to Tioga School there for Kindergarten :) And to Green Street School for First Grade. I guess Green Street School is no longer there. We lived at 15W560 George Street (according to my school records) in Bensenville at the time. That was 1965-1967. By the way (for anyone out there) the records were supplied to me this year by the school district. The district's logo says SINCE 1885. This is Bensenville Elementary School District #2, 210 South Church Road, Bensenville, IL 60106; (630) 766-5940; Fax (630) 766-6099 Maybe they have school records back that far (1885)? Might be worth a try. Barry Jernigan

I believe that the old Bensenville Home Was on York Road just north of Elmhurst in DuPage County. I remember it from when I was a kid in the late 1950's-1960's. Some type of Society or church ran it. I am sure that another local person would know far more. Dr. J

Pat, I, too, have found many links from this great website, although none of my ancestor marriages from Bureau County are there yet. Found many for Du Page, McHenry & Stark Counties. Thanks for the great assistance! Teresa Wilson

Thanks to everyone who reminded me that all of the marriages for Cook Co. are not yet posted on the marriage site. That's what I get for not reading all of the instructions. This is a great site and I'll check back later. Also, will anyone do lookups in these books? Lisle Township Cemetery Inscriptions: DuPage Co., Illinois, Vol 1, Indexed Lisle Township Cemetery Inscriptions: DuPage Co., Illinois, Vol 2, Indexed I contacted the Genealogical Society for information, but they never replied. I would be willing to buy the books if there is sufficient information on my ancestors, but I would like to check first. Please contact me directly if you would do a lookup. Monica Eshelman eshelman@midusa.net

As beautiful as their script handwriting was back then, I have a heck of a time reading it! When I'm transcribing original documents, I come up with the weirdest names, thinking *surely* this is not really a name! Maybe the transcribers develop an eye for it after awhile, but I can sure see how mistakes happen, in the original entry, when it's at the end of the day and the clerk is ready to go home, and years later when some poor soul is trying to read his writing! ENG110@aol.com wrote: > > That is true, while doing some lookups for DuPage Co. with their marriage > listings, I have found that sometimes the names does not show up on the State > listings, it's rare but it has happned, vice versa. > > I thought the DuPage listings were extracted from the states but some how a > few might have been missed. Possible that the marriage was never sent in to > the state from the county. > > The spellings of names is sometimes enough to make you pull your hair out, > case in point was the name Backard, looked all over everything and the name > did not appear, then I looked at the marriages under the spouses name, they > married a Packard ! > Everything was under the Packard name, not Backard. > > Cidney

Hi, Monica, This marriage list cannot be complete since I looked for my grandparents marriage in Cook County for 1895 or thereabouts. I have their marriage license and they were married at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. So I'm sure there are a lot of others who were left off the list....Patricia Meyers, Worth,IL

I'm looking for information on the family of Sophia REINKING. She married Joesph PANCRATZ on March 14th, 1869 in DuPage County. They had one son that I'm aware of, Albert C. PACRATZ born in 1871 in Chicago. He moved to Linn county at some point and was living in Bertram, Iowa. He married a widow, my grandmother, Nettie Mae CRAY in 1901. I think they had two children from this marriage. A daughter named Ruby and a son named Clarence and of course my father, Harry Bernard CRAY. Has anyone heard of these people? I don't know if Alberts parents moved to Iowa or not. Thank you for any help. Donna

That is true, while doing some lookups for DuPage Co. with their marriage listings, I have found that sometimes the names does not show up on the State listings, it's rare but it has happned, vice versa. I thought the DuPage listings were extracted from the states but some how a few might have been missed. Possible that the marriage was never sent in to the state from the county. The spellings of names is sometimes enough to make you pull your hair out, case in point was the name Backard, looked all over everything and the name did not appear, then I looked at the marriages under the spouses name, they married a Packard ! Everything was under the Packard name, not Backard. Cidney

I've separated out the generations of my families who lived in Northern Illinois, and put them on their own web page. These are three families related only by marriage. Two are large, extended families who migrated from NY and OH with their grown children and their spouses. The other is the family of a Presbyterian minister from Tennessee. One of their daughters married another Pres. minister, the son of Rev. Jeremiah Porter. Both the father and the father-in-law, at different times, were ministers of the Congregational Church of Naperville. So far I have not found a single living descendant of these people. I keep hoping! Pat Sabin My Illinois Families- <http://www.patsabin.com/sabinIl.htm> Please check and see if you see any familiar names.

Here's another one from June, forwarded from the Kane County list: Subject: Good evening folks, For those who live in or around Addison, IL, the Addison Library [http://www.addison.lib.il.us] is beginning to build a genealogy section. They whole-heartedly said I could announce this on the internet. All they ask is you be semi-skilled in the use of a PC; they don't have time nor the personnel to train although they do offer classes. They've dedicated one computer, a scanner and a printer to Family research. A number of scanning software packages [adobe photo deluxe, paint shop pro & photoshop] are loaded on the PC. The library has paid for the subscriptions to [http://www.familytreemaker.com] (200 CD-ROMs make up the currect collection) and [http://www.ancestry.com] PERSI (Periodical Source Index) They also have on line [http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com] old city directories, 99 antebellum & civil war era directories are available currently dating form 1859. The next group scheduled to be released will cover major cities during the civil war years, port cities during the largest wave of immigration: 1880--1910. Chicago is included in each release. [http://www.GenealogyLibrary.com] -- a growing collection of close to 2,000 books is also available. Included are the indexes for US censuses from 1790-1880, actual census images fro the 1850 US census. Nine states are completed: Conn, IL, Ind, KY, Mass, NC, PA, RI & VA. The remaining states will be added over the coming year. They offer the use of Netscape & Microsoft Internet Explorer. Not a whole lot in the way of books, but they do make available inter library loans. They're even offering classes re Genealogy. The best of all--it's free of charge. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by. They'll be glad to show you what they have. Beverly Mack Zanon

My friend June (a Kane county native and researcher who lives near me in the Atlanta, GA area) finds all these neat things and sends them to me. I firmed up a lot of information on my families, too. There were so many families related by marriage, and so many different surnames, I wasn't sure in what counties to look. I found one family in McHenry County, and I had no idea they'd moved there. I checked my Babcock family, who lived in West Lyons (Cook County), and none of their children married in Illinois. I had heard rumors that they had migrated to California, and now I think that may be true. It's given me the first clues I've had in a long time. Don't we wish every state would do this! Pat FINCH64@aol.com wrote: > > Pat - thanks so much! :) > > This a veritable gold mine of info to me already. I have found tons of > missing pieces just on this site alone and am going to forward to everyone I > know who is searching for their roots in Illinois. > > Thanks again :)))) > > Barry Jernigan > > Illinois names: Valerio, Fenoglio-Gaddo, Perona, other Italian mining > families; Southcombe, Baker, Hampton, Tubbs, Pye (mostly Grundy, Kendall, > DuPage, Kane and Will counties)

I also am grateful for the marriage records site. In one search, I found a marriage I've been searching for for twenty years. I would be interested to know if anyone else comes up with a marriage that they CAN'T find in the listings. I am certain my great-grandparents were married in Chicago in 1895, and I can't find their listing, though I've tried every spelling I can think of and every variation and nickname. Thanks again, Monica Eshelman

Just wanted to let everyone know what DuPage connections I found on the website and see if anyone else can connect: Austin Pye (parents unknown - possibly born in PA) and Betsey Shutcher (Elizabeth Thatcher?) (parents also unknown - also possibly born in PA) on Mar 13, 1848 Silas Thomas Baker, son of Algernon Baker and Sarah Stevens m. Alice Pye, daughter of Austin Pye and Betsey Shutcher (Elizabeth Thatcher?) on Oct 3, 1865 Grant Hampton, son of Daniel Elias Hampton and Olive Jane Marion Tubbs m. Frankie E. Raller (parents unknown possibly German) on June 2, 1897 Barry Jernigan

Pat - thanks so much! :) This a veritable gold mine of info to me already. I have found tons of missing pieces just on this site alone and am going to forward to everyone I know who is searching for their roots in Illinois. Thanks again :)))) Barry Jernigan Illinois names: Valerio, Fenoglio-Gaddo, Perona, other Italian mining families; Southcombe, Baker, Hampton, Tubbs, Pye (mostly Grundy, Kendall, DuPage, Kane and Will counties)

Forwarding from another list... Illinois marriage records are now on line at the Secretary of States site http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html

Barry, It's not quite the same book, if it covers the history until 1877. The original history was written by Richmond and Vallette in 1857. The atlas came out in 1874, so I imagine an 1877 history would be a culmination. It's probably worth $23.00. Pat Sabin FINCH64@aol.com wrote: > > I receive the Heritage Books News and the October issue has the following: > > History of DuPage County, Illinois - C. W. Richmond. DuPage County is > situated in north-eastern Illinois and derives its name from the DuPage > River. This book covers the period from the first settlement in 1825 to 1877. > Biographical Sketches are included as well as information on the officers of > DuPage County, supervisors, newspapers, schools and colleges. DuPage's > military history is given with a list of those who served in various > regiments. The author ends the book with a patron and business directory. > (1877) reprint. 250 pp., new fullname index, paper, $23.50 > > Is this the same History of DuPage County being discussed here? I am > seriously considering ordering it. Does anyone know if it would be worth the > 23 bucks? Sure sounds like it would be a good investment to me. > > Barry Jernigan

I receive the Heritage Books News and the October issue has the following: History of DuPage County, Illinois - C. W. Richmond. DuPage County is situated in north-eastern Illinois and derives its name from the DuPage River. This book covers the period from the first settlement in 1825 to 1877. Biographical Sketches are included as well as information on the officers of DuPage County, supervisors, newspapers, schools and colleges. DuPage's military history is given with a list of those who served in various regiments. The author ends the book with a patron and business directory. (1877) reprint. 250 pp., new fullname index, paper, $23.50 Is this the same History of DuPage County being discussed here? I am seriously considering ordering it. Does anyone know if it would be worth the 23 bucks? Sure sounds like it would be a good investment to me. Barry Jernigan