This site: http://www.usgennet.org/~ahildupa/ has links to many DuPage county resources. ----- Original Message ----- From: Florence Notch <fnotch@wcta.net> To: <ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Addison Township > Hi Pat, > Thanks for your reply. > I called DuPage Co. clerk office and was told death records starte in years > of1870's. I'm wondering if newspapers are microfilmed for the years 1860-65. > Also what the name of the paper would be for Addison township. Would the > library or history center in the area loan them out? > Thanks > Florence > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Sabin <psabin@bellsouth.net> > To: ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com <ILDUPAGE-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 7:32 PM > Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Addison Township > > > >Florence, > > > >I'm not sure about those particular years, but Typhoid came and went > >during that time. There was a big Smallpox epidemic in 1866. > > > >Pat Sabin > >DuPage Co IL A.L.H.N - http://www.usgennet.org/~ahildupa/ > >Florence Notch wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> Has anyone in your research come across a accident, fire or desease, > that > >> would have wiped out several families some time between 1860--1865 in > >> Addison township, DuPage county. My ggrandfather Charles ( Karl ) NIKLAUS > >> and his brother August, according to census were living with a Rathji > family > >> after 1865. Karl was between 6 and 10 years old and August, 1-5 years. > Their > >> parents no longer are on the census after 1860. > >> I would much appriciate if you have any information. > >> Thank you > >> Florence > > > >