YES! YES! YES! And please subscribe to IL-TRACES-L and post them there at the same time. That way, the record will go into the archives and be there for reference into the future. And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE photocopy the book and send a copy to The Iroquois County Genealogical Society 103 W. Cherry Street Watseka, IL 60970 What a treasure! BrenHebert@aol.com wrote: > Hi! > > In April, 1997 my grandmother Lillian Gertrude MERKLE HEBERT died at > the age of 82 years. Before she died she wrote what she intended to only be > about 50-page book of recollections. Things she remembered about being a > child in the Ashkum-Danforth area, things her parents and grandparents told > her, things about raising 9 children in a Catholic household in the Kankakee > area, and things Grandpa HEBERT told her about growing up in the Kankakee > area. The book ended up being over 200 pages long. > > Anyways, would it be okay if I occasionally post one of her stories > to the list? It probably won't be everyday, but I'll try to post at least one > story a week, if I think it might be interesting to the list. > > Both sets of Grandma's parents were early settlers in Iroquois > County, in fact her grandpa MERKLE donated the land that the old MERKLE > school was built on, and her father Chris A. MERKLE taught at the school at > one time. > > Grandpa's great-grandparents were from Québec and came to Kankakee > County in the middle 1800s. They weren't very prominent in the community, > just your average hard-working, religious people. > > Thanks, > Brenda Hébert > > ==== ILFORD Mailing List ==== > *********************************************** > Ford-Iroquois-Kankakee Genealogical Mailing List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilkankak/ilford.html > *********************************************** -- 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/