According to the Illinois Central Historical Society "The Illinois Central railroad was chartered in 1851 to build a railroad from Cairo, Il., joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to Galena, in the extreme northwestern part of the state ( the "Old Main"), with a branch from Centrailia..." I always wondered how my Irish grandfather, William Reedy, a railroad engineer from New Jersey , met my German grandmother, Ida Merz, who was born in Effingham. I think the information I got from Google about the train passing through Effingham answers this question. My search title for google was: Illinois Central Railroad history. ----- Original Message ----- From: <ron_mesnard@hotmail.com> To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:33 AM Subject: [ILEFFING-L] Re: Where to find birth records circa 1900 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Bg.2ADI/276.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Thank you for such a thorough "data dump" for this family. The > newsclipping was great. I am related to these folks from when they were > in CT. They are the largest branch of the Mesnards and the family > documentation for them is poor. Such as The mispelling of the name Phebe > Slocum's name and the John III was born in CT to name just two major > errors. The Mesnards had been in the New World for over a century before > he was born. It will take me a while to digest what you sent. Much is > old news but there is still a good deal of new stuff. I am interested in > the Illinois Central Railroad. Do you know when did they started to build > that? I am always interested in migration and motives for migration. > > Thanks again! > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail > to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. > >