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)