In 1973, my father got a legal notice regarding land in Cook County being sold for back taxes. Dad didn't know anything about the property. His lawyer said "it's a Chicago scam, just ignore it". (Downstate attitude, sorry!!) Luckily, dad saved the papers & I just came across them. I now recognize some of the names as being connected to my family. And it seems that whoever came up with the list wrote down just about everybody who even *might* have had a connection to the property, clear back into the mid-1800's. (Lawyers covering all the bases, probably.) I know there are people listed who had passed away long before the 1970's. The property was located at: "Approximately one-half mile west of East River Road at the east bank of the DesPlaines River on the north side of Higgins Road in Park Ridge". The PIN is 12-03-201-001. I did a search with the PIN, but it seems to be one set of numbers short for "modern" times, so I don't know just what tract of land was in dispute. From the written description it seems to now be part of the Forest Preserve - maybe the Boy Scout camp area? Many names are included in the printed notice that looks like it might have been intended for publication in a newspaper. Attached to the actual legal notice is a list of people that paperwork had been sent to. This was definitely outdated since my grandfather was on that list & he had died in 1953! The following names & the towns they supposedly lived in are from the "mail to" list. All are in Illinois unless they're in parenthesis. After those I've included the other surnames not on the mail list. Maybe some of you will spot a familiar name. (And does anybody else remember getting this notice??) BACH - Arlington Heights BEHRNS - Melrose Park BRENING - Bensenville DIERKING - West Chicago, Bensenville, Orchard Place DUNTEMANN - Chicago FOLKENHEIM - (Maplewood, Missouri) GATHMANN - Elgin, Chicago, Arlington Heights, Roselle, Genoa, Bloomingdale, Itasca, Lombard, Bensenville, Mt. Prospect, (Wichita, Kansas) GATHMANN-COSMAN - Arlington Heights GATHMANN-HABERKAMP - Itasca GATHMANN-TOPPEL - Elgin HACHMEISTER - Norwood Park, Chicago, Franklin Park HEINRICH - Cicero HENNESSY - Chicago HERMES - Chicago HILDEBRAND - Chicago HOTH - Bartlett KIRCHOFF - Chicago KLEIN - (Oceanside, California) KLEINSCHMIDT - (Baldwin County, Alabama) KNORPP - (Groom, Texas) KOLZE - Chicago, Schiller Park KOLZE-FRIESTEDT - Winnetka KOLZE-JENSIK - Chicago LAGERHAUSEN - Des Plaines LANDMEIER - Bensenville LANDWEHR - -Hanover, Elgin LANDWER - Barrington, Onarga, (Port Washington, New York) MARWOOD - River Forest, Oak Park MOHRING - Chicago, Park Ridge OLLMAN - Roselle PODRAZIK - Park Ridge RASMUSSEN - Geneva, Elgin REEVES -- Norwood Park SCHAEFER - Barrington, Chicago SCHIERHORN - Franklin Park SENF - Oak Park STELLMAN - Chicago, Bensenville STELLMAN-FRANZEN - Pingree Grove STELLMAN-WOLF - Des Plaines, (Glendale, California) VOLBERDING - Forest Park WINKELMAN - Bensenville, Northbrook ZAHN - Niles Center additional names - KELLER, KUCKER, BIERMANN, CORING, WOLKENHAUER, BLUME, KRUEGER, MUNSTERMAN, WILMERS, STEINMANN, STUEVE, JENSIK, DOHRING, PERLBERG, EHRHARDT, SCHOPPE, LANDWEIER, HANKE, HENGES, AHRBECKER, BOSENBERG, FRANZEN, HEUER, FRIEDERICHS, DIEKE, SCHARRINGHAUSEN, DUFFER, GRAFUNG, SCHOENBERGER, CLIPPER, COLLINS, HANEBUTH, SIEMERS, BALJE, HEITMAN, NASALSKI, WENDT, SCHWERDTFEGER, FINKE, HASEMAN, ERNSTING, BROEMMELKAMP, NAEHER, AURAND, MORING, MOEHRING, MUELLER, EIFERT, KUSPER