Thanks so much to all who responded to my Iroquois County inquiry. I'm am overwhelmed with so many quick answers. What has already been sent is so much more than I knew about my grandfathers family! He died when I was thirteen, and I sure wasn't thinking about genealogy at that point in my life, so had never questioned about such things. Many, many thanks to all. Betty (Roll) Holt Tulsa, OK.

Hi Betty, I assure you, we Iroquois Countians are here, and in fairly large numbers. Try the last URL in my signature line for cemetery lists available through the genealogical society and for the fees the society charges to search the lists for a specific grave if you don't want to buy the books (very reasonable fees, at that). Have you any more specifics about where in Iroquois County the family lived? -- Loretta Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iliroquo/ Ford County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilford/ Iroquois County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/

I have been subscribed to this list since Aug. 27th. and thus far have not seen any references to Iroquois County. My grandfather, George Washington Roll was born in Iroquois County, Ill. Oct. 30, 1862, s/o Harvey & Martha Jane (Cunningham) Roll. They had children: Mary V.; John William; Charles; George Washington; & Harvey Lincoln. To the best of my knowledge Mary V. was the only child not born in Illinois. Harvey Roll was born in Darke Co. Ohio, Jan. 1, 1828; not sure of Martha Cunningham's birth date. Harvey was the s/o John Roll, b. Sep 26, 1804; m. Mary Westfall, b. Oct. 13, 1800 (the first white child born in Dayton, Ohio). I would love to find out more about George Washington Roll, his parents and siblings, if any of them are buried in Iroquois County, when they died, etc. My grandfather died, Feb. 12, 1943, Wellington, KS, and is buried at Delphos Cemetery, Delphos, KS. Is there any contact I can make to determine cemetery listings in Iroquois County? Thanks in advance for any possible help. Betty (Roll) Holt

The Ford County ILGenWeb Project and Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project pages have been updated with the following queries and surname postings: In Ford County: PHILLIPS / FRANCE / HENDERSON Later Debi Visit my Web pages at: http://members.aol.com/LaFineD/LaFineD.html or http://www.capstonebank.com/~lafined/ Stop by the Iroquois Genealogical Society Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/index.htm

Is there any place where records of divorces (from 1890 - 1930 lets say) are kept? How are these records accessed? ( Thanks for answering this question from someone new to geneological research.) Kim in Overland Park, KS mailto:christk@maplewoods.cc.mo.us

his is copied from Dick Eastman's Column for Sept. 14, 1999. To read the column go to: <http://ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastnew.htm> - Halbert’s Is Going Out of Business Halbert’s is closing down. The company blames "competition from the Internet" as the reason for their business problems. Cendant of Parsippany, N.J., the parent company of NUMA and Halbert’s, announced this week that the publisher of pseudo-genealogy "books" will cease operations on Sept. 30, 1999. I wrote in the June 8, 1999 edition of this newsletter ( http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastjune08-99.htm) that Cendant was trying to sell Halbert’s and all other divisions of NUMA. Apparently Cendant was unable to find a buyer. Halbert’s is infamous for its mass produced "books" which claim to offer genealogy information about your surname but, in fact, deliver simple listings gleaned from telephone directories and other sources of public domain information. For years Halbert’s sent thousands of ads weekly for the "New World Book of (your surname)." For instance, in the ads sent to me, the book would be called the "New World Book of Eastmans." If your last name is Smith, then you would receive an advertisement for the "New World Book of Smiths." The advertisement would bear the signature of a fictitious person with the same last name as yours. Halbert’s has been well known in the genealogy world for years. Most major genealogy societies have issued repeated warnings to their members to not waste money on these "books." Halbert’s always used a Bath, Ohio mailing address. However, when I visited Bath last year ( http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastAug31-98.htm), I was unable to find the company in the building they use as a return address. Halbert’s also has been in court several times to answer charges lodged by the U.S. Postal Service. The court documents always listed Halbert’s as a subsidiary of the NUMA Corporation of 1566 Akron Peninsula Rd, Akron, Ohio. That address is a few miles from Bath, Ohio. NUMA/Halbert’s stopped marketing in August and will end operations Sept. 30, according to Elliott Bloom, spokesman for Cendant. Bloom said all orders will be filled, and the 70 employees will be given severance pay. "The shutdown is related to a weakness, largely the result of consumers having access to a greater amount of general data on the Internet," Bloom said. "The product has really run its course as far as viability, so the best course of action was to close the business." I suspect the standards set by the genealogy community at large contributed to this announcement. My congratulations to all of you who insist on quality in your genealogy purchases.

--WebTV-Mail-11898-1174 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Re; CHURCH ADDRESS DICK Go to www.alltheweb.com and plug into the search engine.. You will be amazed what wil pop up. Good hunting !! Cathie owtlaw1@WEBTV.NET --WebTV-Mail-11898-1174 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-102-4.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.55) by postoffice-621.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <ILFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mailsorter-102-4.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.adl.990907) with ESMTP id UAA05957; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: ILFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA18219; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909160321.UAA18219@bl-14.rootsweb.com> Subject: ILFORD-D Digest V99 #101 X-Loop: ILFORD-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ILFORD-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume99/101 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: ILFORD-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ILFORD-L@rootsweb.com - ---------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain ILFORD-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 101 Today's Topics: #1 [ILFORD-L] HEUSING CEMETERY ["Richard Zimmerman" <zimerman@shia] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from ILFORD-D, send a message to ILFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ - ----------------------------

Would someone please give me the address for St Peters United Church of Christ in Grant Park. I need some infomation about some relatives that are buried there. Thanks Dick Zimmerman zimerman@shianet.org

In a message dated 9/13/99 6:44:45 PM Central Daylight Time, lafined@capstonebank.com writes: << The program will be: ~~~~~~~ CHANGED >From Sept. 27 - TO 4 OCT at 7:00p.m. and Foreign Genealogy by Denise Corke at >> Oh yeah, be sure to tell them how much FUN Irish genealogy is! Hahahahaha. I envy my cousin's wife, who is researching our French-Canadian side. She is having much better luck with her search than I am with mine. Two different animals . . . Course, I did SCREAM at the genealogy library in Watseka when I found my Irish immigrant gg grandmother's obit, gleaned from an old newspaper that used to be housed in one of the haunts of my youth . . The Watseka Public Library. Debbie

The program will be: ~~~~~~~ CHANGED >From Sept. 27 - TO 4 OCT at 7:00p.m. Begining Genealogy by Cheryl Gocken and Foreign Genealogy by Denise Corke at The Watseka Public Library ~~~~~~~ Later Debi Visit my Web pages at: http://members.aol.com/LaFineD/LaFineD.html or http://www.capstonebank.com/~lafined/ Stop by the Iroquois Genealogical Society Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/index.htm

Charlotte You are absolutely right. Does this help? " INTERNET GENEALOGY - WHAT'S GOOD! WHAT'S NOT! . . . AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? by Bettie Cummings Cook, CG [Published in The Packet, Tri-State Genealogical Society, Evansville, IN, vol.XXII, no. 2 (Dec. 1998)] That is what you will find if you click on the blue. <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaa ugust/cook.htm</A> Evelyn Young

In a message dated 09/12/1999 2:51:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DEYCOMD@aol.com writes: << It is important for all researchers to read this. Just click: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaa ugust/cook.htm</A> And pass it on. Evelyn Young >> I would feel more comfortable connecting to this site if there were some indication that the person writing were indeed a genealogist, as well as something about the site. Charlotte

John and Nancy (Dilley) Besett moved to Iroquois/Kankakee IL after the purchase of govt. land in 1849. I have checked the 1850 Iroquois census and did not fine them, although her brother, Hiram Dilly and family and Joseph Dilly and family, were there. I know that they had children with them and that Nancy Dilley Besett was born in IL 31 Jul 1851. Can anyone help? Kathryn Leslie

The Ford County ILGenWeb Project and Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project pages have been updated with the following queries and surname postings: There was a mistake in the earlier posting. Means / Kronsben should have been posted under: In Ford County: MEANS / KRONSBEN Later Debi Visit my Web pages at: http://members.aol.com/LaFineD/LaFineD.html or http://www.capstonebank.com/~lafined/ Stop by the Iroquois Genealogical Society Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/index.htm

What's the geneaolgy program this month? Debbie

The Ford County ILGenWeb Project and Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project pages have been updated with the following queries and surname postings: In Iroquois County: CUPPY MEANS / KRONSBEN HEFNER / BOWYER Later Debi Visit my Web pages at: http://members.aol.com/LaFineD/LaFineD.html or http://www.capstonebank.com/~lafined/ Stop by the Iroquois Genealogical Society Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/index.htm

It is important for all researchers to read this. Just click: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaa ugust/cook.htm</A> And pass it on. Evelyn Young

THANKS TO EVRYONE who helped find cemetery Otto & Shirley are buried in. Special thanks to Ardis who went above & beyond the call of duty. Ardis, if you're out there please write as I accidentally erased your e-mail address. Thanks again !!! Cathie owtlaw1@webtv.net

The Ford County ILGenWeb Project and Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project pages have been updated with the following queries and surname postings: In Iroquois County: HARVEY Later Debi Visit my Web pages at: http://members.aol.com/LaFineD/LaFineD.html or http://www.capstonebank.com/~lafined/ Stop by the Iroquois Genealogical Society Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/index.htm

Thought this might help someone --- The 1876 Kankakee City Directory is online in the new databases at Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com Have fun! Brenda Hébert