Address correct to last correspondence: Instead of gpa@irtc.net should read gpamarty@irtc.net Thanks Marty Tri-County Newsletter http://www.irtc.net/~gpamarty/ or Marty Crull RR 1 Box 9 Carrollton, IL 62016

Marty - package arrived - I have a question; - I assume you want the information transcribed as nearly as possible to the way it is written (some very very hard to read) - should it all be one document? Entry after entry and not each entry separate? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Crull" <gpamarty@irtc.net> To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: [ILGREENE] School/class pictures 1950-1970 > Need help gathering pictures from the Fieldon Elementary school 1950 thru 1970. > Please send scanned copies to gpa@irct.net > > Thanks > Marty > > Tri-County Newsletter > http://www.irtc.net/~gpamarty/ > > or > Marty Crull > RR 1 Box 9 > Carrollton, IL 62016 > > > ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Greene County USGenWeb Homepage! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Need help gathering pictures from the Fieldon Elementary school 1950 thru 1970. Please send scanned copies to gpa@irct.net Thanks Marty Tri-County Newsletter http://www.irtc.net/~gpamarty/ or Marty Crull RR 1 Box 9 Carrollton, IL 62016

Dear Elaine, These obits cover the last couple years from these counties at the funeral home. Hope this helps. Bill -----Original Message----- From: HatwellE@aol.com [mailto:HatwellE@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:22 PM To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] GREENE COUNTY OBITUARIES In a message dated 12/8/2002 3:42:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, cribbswh@tbi-set.org writes: > Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com has added a search engine that > searches through hundreds of obituaries from Morgan County, Greene County, > Pike County and Scott County. The search is at > <A HREF="http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/counties/il-greene.htm">http://w ww.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/counties/il-greene.htm</A> Bill, Do you know the dates that are covered by these records? Thanks, Elaine Powell ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== Search this list's archived messages! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Bravo! -----Original Message----- From: Marty Crull [mailto:gpamarty@irtc.net] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:31 PM To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILGREENE] Typing Volunteers Folks, I must clear this up once and for all, about what happens to the transcribed articles once they are complete. This is it. I am first obligated to the Societies from which I received the articles. This is cut and dry. They had the materials there in their building, their files, their boxes and boxes of materials. They didn't have to let me pilfer through them. They did and I am grateful. They get the finished work first. Then it is published in the newsletter for their members. Then it will be made available to the websites. I've had two people who disagree with this and they think the transcripted materials should be posted to the websites for ILJersey and ILGreene first. This is fine and I respect their views. It isn't going to happen but I respect their views. If you agree with them and don't wish to support my decision then please don't volunteer. No matter how much help I need, please allow me to respect those who made the materials available in the first place. Those people are the Jersey County Historical Society and the Greene County Historical Society. Thanks. Marty ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== 2,500 Discussion Lists!!! USGenWeb and The USGenWeb Archives! Special thanks go to RootsWeb. http://www.rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I agree with Debbie. I am a member of the Society and a typing volunteer, however, the docs should be placed on line for all to benefit from as soon as possible. Diane

Folks, I must clear this up once and for all, about what happens to the transcribed articles once they are complete. This is it. I am first obligated to the Societies from which I received the articles. This is cut and dry. They had the materials there in their building, their files, their boxes and boxes of materials. They didn't have to let me pilfer through them. They did and I am grateful. They get the finished work first. Then it is published in the newsletter for their members. Then it will be made available to the websites. I've had two people who disagree with this and they think the transcripted materials should be posted to the websites for ILJersey and ILGreene first. This is fine and I respect their views. It isn't going to happen but I respect their views. If you agree with them and don't wish to support my decision then please don't volunteer. No matter how much help I need, please allow me to respect those who made the materials available in the first place. Those people are the Jersey County Historical Society and the Greene County Historical Society. Thanks. Marty

Thanks. They will be as soon as possible but not until the Society gets them first. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dianebirrell@aol.com> To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] Re: Typing > I agree with Debbie. I am a member of the Society and a typing volunteer, > however, the docs should be placed on line for all to benefit from as soon as > possible. > Diane > > > ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

I tend to disagree! I'm helping with the typing and I'm not yet a member. Also, with the volume of documents that need typed time will be needed to collate them. Just my opinion. Peggy -----Original Message----- From: Debbi Geer [mailto:dgirth@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:26 AM To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] Re: Typing Marty I will continue to type for you, however, I don't think it's fair to those who choose not to belong to a society to do work for them unless they know the facts up front. I'm sure that all who volunteered did it with the impression that the articles would be placed on the respective website within a few days after sending them back to you. If the volunteers are all society members then I can see the articles being published for the benefit of the society. However, if the society members want to reap the benefits then they should do the work themselves just like any other society. Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== Search this list's archived messages! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Marty I will continue to type for you, however, I don't think it's fair to those who choose not to belong to a society to do work for them unless they know the facts up front. I'm sure that all who volunteered did it with the impression that the articles would be placed on the respective website within a few days after sending them back to you. If the volunteers are all society members then I can see the articles being published for the benefit of the society. However, if the society members want to reap the benefits then they should do the work themselves just like any other society. Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

I only get the message boards -----Original Message----- From: Marty Crull [mailto:gpamarty@irtc.net] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:20 PM To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILGREENE] Calhoun County mail list Is any one receiving anything from Calhoun County? I unsubscribe and subscribed trying to get something but have heard absolutely nothing in weeks. Thanks Marty ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== Visit the Greene County USGenWeb Homepage! http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Just to keep you , "typing volunteers" exactly what I have accumulated since 1993, I thought I give a small breakdown. This way you will be more in the know of what I have and why I need the help. 1. Ben Kings 5 1/4 diskettes from his 10 years of research: Some to a cousin in Alton, IL; some to a cousin in Lawton, OK; some stored at the Greene county museum; some her at the house. All these have to be reformatted to cd or 3 1/2 diskettes and adapted to a current program. They were all DOS operated disks. 2. At least 8 large boxes of hand written scraps of papers from newspapers (some photocopied - but you could imagine how much that would have cost me). 3 each here at the house right now, 3 hidden in the bowels of the Jersey County Historical Society; 2 hidden near Hillview at a friends house. 3. 3 large boxes of veteran clippings and handscrap copies. (All of the above to be scanned and emailed or postage sent as well) 4. Lastly, two file cabinets here at the house full, I mean full, of family and other information from projects that I am currently working on. 10 years worth of information about Jersey, Greene and Calhoun Counties. Now you know what I mean, when I put out the word, "I need typing volunteers". Thanks for letting me explain. Marty

Hi all, Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com has added a search engine that searches through hundreds of obituaries from Morgan County, Greene County, Pike County and Scott County. The search is at http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/counties/il-greene.htm Hope this helps. My other Illinois pages: Illinois Obituary Links http://obit.obitlinkspage.com/il.htm Illinois GenLookups http://www.genlookups.com/il.htm Illinois CemSEARCH http://www.obitcentral.com/cemsearch/il-cem.htm Illinois Historical & Genealogical Societies http://hs.obitlinkspage.com/il.htm Surname Search Utility http://surnames.obitlinkspage.com Hope these help. Happy holidays! Bill

I would be glad to do some transcription over the winter (stuck indoors) if someone could scan the material into a jpg file to send me--similar to what Marty Crull has his volunteer transcriptionists doing. I had Reno and Backus relatives in the White Hall area end of 1800's so would be glad to help this project along. Susan LeBlanc srleblanc@qosi.net sr_leblanc@hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <WordGenius@aol.com> To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: [ILGREENE] Re: ILGREENE-D Digest V02 #161 > In a message dated 12/07/2002 12:31:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, > ILGREENE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > << has anybody tried the White Hall library for faily ties. I found a good > deal > of information about Teeple's from old newspapers on microfilm there. I was > quite impressed with this small libraries micofilm. Jim >> > > Hi, Jim, > > I talked to the librarian there a couple of days ago. They have a large > index card file with names found in the newspaper articles from 1860 on. > Obviously, the older the paper, the less complete the card file is, but it is > a great resource. At one time we had a link on the page that referred to > this file as the "Stout files", but the library said that the only Stout > connection is that the surname shows up in the file. I did add a note about > the file on the White Hall library listing on our Libraries web page. > > If anyone has a hankering to do a project, how about transcribing this file? > Wish I lived closer so I could start on it at least. > > Jeannie Smith > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm >

MJ Bradley asked a question and I thought I'd clear the air about all this typing being done for Greene County. It is not meant to offend anyone but puts the facts out there to help folks make up their minds about helping me. ......... In time of course! They've been in a box since 1993 when I took the time to read and write them down from the old newspapers and family files. No one else, except Jean Wooldridge, seemed to be interested in helping gather them, as I asked for help back then as well. May I ask, are you a paid member of the historical society? These folks will be the first to receive the articles, since they are the ones who funded the Society where these records are located, and this is as it should be. Once they receive the finished projects, then and only then will they be posted as "free" for those who are not members. I Hope I have explained this well enough without offending you. But these folks are responsible for purchasing the file cabinets, the building, the electricity, the heat and the volunteers who cut and past each scrape article that comes thru the museum and makes it available to folks like me who do this for all who come after us. Again, yes they will be posted but at a later time. May be as much as six months from now, since I still have hundreds of articles that need to be typed. This is a fact for Jersey and Calhoun Counties as well. I've been at it a long time. I became "in a hurry" after these last heart attacks and decided that all this'd work will go back into the museum, again, to sit, until someone else decides to volunteer to do what we are doing. Thanks and again, I mean no disrespect or in any way to offend anyone. Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Bradley" <mj_bradley@hotmail.com> To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com>; <gpamarty@irtc.net> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 9:24 AM Subject: Typing > I am already committed to two other typing projects at the moment but if one > is over in time I will help out. I would like to know however, where these > pages are going to be put after all the typing is finished. > Is it on a website where all can use and benefit? > > Thanks > MJ > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > >

I am already committed to two other typing projects at the moment but if one is over in time I will help out. I would like to know however, where these pages are going to be put after all the typing is finished. Is it on a website where all can use and benefit? Thanks MJ _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

In a message dated 12/07/2002 12:31:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, ILGREENE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << has anybody tried the White Hall library for faily ties. I found a good deal of information about Teeple's from old newspapers on microfilm there. I was quite impressed with this small libraries micofilm. Jim >> Hi, Jim, I talked to the librarian there a couple of days ago. They have a large index card file with names found in the newspaper articles from 1860 on. Obviously, the older the paper, the less complete the card file is, but it is a great resource. At one time we had a link on the page that referred to this file as the "Stout files", but the library said that the only Stout connection is that the surname shows up in the file. I did add a note about the file on the White Hall library listing on our Libraries web page. If anyone has a hankering to do a project, how about transcribing this file? Wish I lived closer so I could start on it at least. Jeannie Smith http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm

In a message dated 12/07/2002 12:31:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Kent" <cdr2002@mchsi.com> writes: << 1860 & 1880 have broken links >> Oops, forgot the "l" on "html". Census links are fixed now on our main page. Jeannie Smith Co. Coord. for Greene Co. IL on ILGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm

Hi, all, The Illinois State Archives suspended sending out free death certificates for all orders received after 15 Nov 2002. They will continue to fill the orders received prior to that date (as of 19 Nov 2002, they were 19,000 request behind). The only way certificates can be obtained now from the Illinois State Archives is to go there in person. The non-certified copies that cost $10.00 can be obtained from the Illinois Department of Public Health, not the State Archives. Each county also has its own rules/fees for sending out copies of these certificates. If anyone is interested in having me get death certificates for 1916 through 1947 from the Illinois State Archives, I will be going there next week. You can e-mail me at rottmann@hotmail.com for more information or to let me know what certificates you are looking for. Mary Rottmann rottmann@hotmail.com >From: Kevin Sanders <kevin_sanders_1968@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com >To: ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] Re: Free Death Certs. >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:42:11 -0800 (PST) > >For those who are interested, this person is getting >death certificates in Dec/January for people for $4.50 >I think. >http://www.rootdig.com/illinoisdeathcertificates.html > >Kevin >--- WordGenius@aol.com wrote: > > I believe Illinois has now suspended the free death > > certificates due to lack > > of resources and huge demand. That's why the $10 > > fee for the genealogical > > non-certified ones. Somewhere I just read that for > > the before-1916 ones at > > the county courthouse, you can search yourself, but > > the clerks no longer have > > time to do searches for you. I don't know what fee, > > if any, is charged for > > copies. > > > > Jeannie Smith > > Co. Coord for Greene Co. IL, on ILGenWeb > > > > > > ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Greene County USGenWeb Homepage! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > > online genealogy records, go to: > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > >==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== >Visit the Greene County USGenWeb Homepage! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

For all of you who are helping, I can not express how I appreciate the effort. There are only about 50 to 60 more pages left in this box and then I won't bother you anymore till after the holidays. There are actually well over 300 pages left in the box but I just chose these for now. I've been collecting these since 1993 shortly after Ben King died. Some are just one or two sentences but most are well written articles about Greene County. Jean Wooldridge and I spent a few days a few years back cleaning up the family files at the historical society, this is where the majority of the articles came from. AgainThanks Marty