Dear Linda, Thank you for your continued efforts to preserve our family histories. Hope your Christmas and New Year bring Peace and Joy. Suzy Russell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Lambert" <ktlkate@extremezone.com> To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: [ILEFFING-L] Effingham County GenWeb Site > I'm back from Illinois with some good news! After the holidays are over, > I > will be adding the following information to the GenWeb site about some > wonderful news..but wanted to give you a heads up in case you are going > "home" for the holidays and want to check this out...and possibly do some > genealogy research. > > > > 44 microfilm reels containing various county records are now part of the > records of the Helen Mathes Library in Effingham. The reels were prepared > from 205 decaying books of records rescued from the Effingham County > Courthouse basement. Records include criminal files, probate records, > chancery cases, coroner's inquests, jail registers, county board minutes, > tax ledgers and even records from the old Poor Farm Cemetery. These > records > date from 1833 to 1973. Jane Schuette (the circuit clerk) deserves a big > pat on the back for arranging for the preservation of our county history. > > > > The old books were falling apart, musty and full of mold and mildew (I > know, > I did some research in them several years ago) and were stored in the > damp, > dungeon-type-rock basement of the Court House. They were turned over to > the > State Archives. Archivists fumigated the books and did the microfilming. > But...the completed reels were the wrong size for the microfilm machines > in > the Circuit Clerk's Office, so the Clerk contacted the library..the reels > were a perfect fit for the library's machines. > > > > Just keeping you up to date on things in Effingham County....happy > hunting!!!! > > > > Linda Lambert > > > > ==== 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. > >