In the Weekly Galena Gazette for April 22, 1887, in the column from the Elizabeth Correspondent. It says "F. J. Kolb, artist, is having his gallery painted." The 1889 Portrait & Biographical HIstory has a bio of John B. Kolb, father of Frank Kolb. It says that son Frank is a photographer in Elizabeth. I think Kolb photographed the first train coming into Elizabeth. Frank J. Kolb's grave is in the St. Marys Cemetery, 1860 - 1931. I do not know anything about a photographer named Leonard. I'm slowing copying out these columns "From the Elizabeth Correspondents" in the Galena Gazette. These are great as to who built what, who visited whom, who is ill, etc. etc. When I get some done, I'll send them to webmaster Cheryl Hemingway to put on the site. Marjorie Smith

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I also have a photo from Elizabeth which simply says "Leonard Photographer" and "Elizabeth, ILL". I would like to nail down the possible timeframe of this picture to further confirm the portrait. The Cookbook from 1895 lists two photographers -- F.J. Kolb and E.J. Buss. And while it does not include a C.L. Leonard, it does include a watchrepairer and jeweler by the name of E.L. Leonard. A quick review of the "Souvenir of Elizabeth and Hanover" booklet and the vendors in the Atlas Compendium yielded nothing further. I did find an interesting note in the "Hanover" book from 1976 by Terry Miller..... "The upstairs portion of the old [J&B Cafe] was used by C. Leonard from Elizabeth as a photography gallery in 1878 and 1879." If anyone has any additional information, I would be very interested as well. Chris Straight Fairchild, WI

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I know that F. J. Kolb, photograper, was an advertiser in the 1895 ladies cookbook from Elizabeth, but now I have two photos done by Kolb and wonder if anyone knows the inclusive dates for this studio? Also I have an older albumen print on a "wallet-sized" card the back of which is stamped C. L. LEONARD'S, Portable Gallery. It might have been taken in Elizabeth in the 1870s and I hope someone will know about this photographer. All the photos are unlabeled and some of the subjects not known for sure. Appreciate any help! Cheers, Jean Hoffman [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeangene/

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Those marriages were transcribed under the reign of a different county clerk who allowed people access to the marriage records. Illinois State law requires the county clerk to charge $7.00 per marriage even to look at the original record. The address is County Clerk, Jo Daviess County Courthouse, Bench Street, Galena, IL 61036. I'm now working on transcribing Jo Daviess marriages for the state-wide index for the Illinois State Archives and Illinois State Genealogical Society. Each month what I complete for Jo Daviess County is uploaded to the state-wide index. When I complete a book I'll send them to web-master Cheryl to put on her Jo Daviess site. Some of my observations. The responsibility of the person who issued the license was to make sure that the groom was 21 years old and the bride was 18 years. He is not concerned about spelling. Most times it appears that the bride was not even present, the groom verifies she is of age. So she is not there to give an accurate spelling of her name. In a few cases a third party gets the license for the couple. Most of the courthouse people are transplanted New Englanders, the German names confuse them. The second part to the license is the minister or priest's return verifying he married the couple. He again writes the names of the couple. The spelling can be different from the license names, the names can even be different. As to parents names - assume that they are not there. If the bride is not of age, it may say the "mother" or "father" gives permission, but does not give a name. It is amazing how many of these marriages can not be found in the two county histories to verify any spelling. They seem to have gotten off a steamboat, got married, and then hurried west or north to Minnesota. If you have any questions, please write for a copy of the original record. They are your family names and you'll make more out of the handwriting, than a person transcribing all the names Marjorie Smith.

Would someone please do a marriage lookup and some handwriting analysis for me? I found a transcription on the Rootsweb site for Jo Davies County Marriages, Book 4, M-Z, for "Pfiffner, Henry m. Ursula Tschirgi, August 15, 1849, page 127". This is my great granduncle. Immediately above this entry in the list is "Pfiffener, Cartren m. Keufmann, Andrew, Oct 28, 1847, page 7". I believe the spelling in this transcription may be wrong and that this entry is really for CATHERINE PFIFFNER and Andrew KAUFMANN. Catherine was my great grandaunt. She and Henry were siblings. Could someone look at the original entry on page 7 Book 4 to see if the handwriting could have been misread by the transcriber? Also, were parents names listed in these old entries in Jo Davies County? If so, it would be a great help. I would greatly appreciate any help I can get on this item. Thank you. John Pfiffner

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I thought you all would be interested in this email I just received. For a while, at least, the images are free to view. -Cheryl Hemingway [email protected] <http://users.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi> Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/HomeonWeb.html> Cheryl's personal website http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> my Close To My Heart (rubber stamping & scrapbooking) consultant page. 1900 Census Microfilm Images Now Online at Genealogy.com! * Images of the 1900 census rolls, fully searchable by name * An unprecedented level of detail for the genealogist * Superb source of information on immigrant ancestors * Indexed, portable, ready wherever and whenever you are http://www.Genealogy.com/ifa/ Dear Family Historian, Earlier this year, Genealogy.com introduced a collection of "Internet Family Archives" -- valuable genealogy reference materials that you use on the Internet. Today we're excited to share the news of our latest addition to the collection: fully searchable images of the 1900 U.S. Census! The first four states are already available -- click either link below for more details about these two new collections: Census Microfilm Records: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 1900 http://www.FamilyTreeMaker.com/904facd.html Census Microfilm Records: North Carolina, 1900 http://www.FamilyTreeMaker.com/903facd.html Don't worry if your ancestors didn't live in New England or the Mid-Atlantic; in the coming months, the number of states will continue to expand. These microfilm images are online, so you can reach them anytime or anywhere your research takes you. 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Specifically....once you find one person note the date of marriage then plug this date(just the date, not the words "marriage date") into a new search and you will get all marriages that took place that day. I did this and got both brides...plus some other's I wasn't particularly looking for. What I found was that there were spelling mistakes in the brides' names. It works perfectly. ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Molye <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [ILJODAVI] WI Marriages > At 03:34 PM 8/31/00 EDT, [email protected] wrote: > >I went in and looked at the WI marriages last night and was not impressed. > It > >shows the name of the person that got married but not who they married. > > In the Ancestry.com WI marriage database, when you find a bride or groom > who looks interesting because of the date and/or county, you can do another > search using enough keywords to locate the name of the spouse. I used the > county abbreviation as it appears in the database, the page number, and the > day and month of the marriage. This pulled up the bride and groom I was > interested in. >

At 03:34 PM 8/31/00 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >I went in and looked at the WI marriages last night and was not impressed. It >shows the name of the person that got married but not who they married. In the Ancestry.com WI marriage database, when you find a bride or groom who looks interesting because of the date and/or county, you can do another search using enough keywords to locate the name of the spouse. I used the county abbreviation as it appears in the database, the page number, and the day and month of the marriage. This pulled up the bride and groom I was interested in.

One thing to keep in mind when searching for the marriages from JD couples (if your names are common) is that most went to Grant or Lafayette Counties. Also just in case anyone wanted to order a cert I called Grant County today to verify the price and it is 7.00 payable to the Register of Deeds. I did get a marriage license from Grant Co for my own GGfather and Grant did ask for parents names (not maiden) and place of birth (of the husband) as early as 1866 so a license from there is more informative than the JD ones. Regards, Christina

For those in the region, if you get an opportunity to visit the State Historical Society in Madison, it really is worth the visit. It's probably one of the best genealogy repositories in the Midwest and really is not all that far for folks in northern Illinois. In addition to Wisconsin vital records and newspapers, it has all census records for the U.S. and a pretty good collection of genealogical resources for counties and families across the Nation. I like to use the indexes on Ancestry or the UW-Library On-line Catalog to locate what I need prior to making the trip. This maximizes my time on site. The library catalog can be searched at http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/ Try the keyword search for some of your target counties; you may discover a source you didn't know was out there. It works best when using "AND" between words (Jo AND Daviess AND County) I am also a bit lucky since Madison is on the way to Galena. Chris Straight Fairchild, WI

This is true, BUT . . . you can order copies of the microfilm from either the State of Wisconsin or the Family History Library once you know the volume and page # and you cut out a whole lot of time in paging through endless rolls of film. -Cheryl Hemingway Close To My Heart Consultant <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> Rubber Treasures ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [ILJODAVI] WI Marriages > I went in and looked at the WI marriages last night and was not impressed. It > shows the name of the person that got married but not who they married. I > have so many generations that used the same names over and over and so did > their children, brothers, cousins etc. It would be very hard for me to find a > marriage record without writing for each one. > > << The Galena Gazette reported (I don't have date) that people were > flocking to this one Justice of the Peace in Wisconsin. Illinois had a > waiting period and Wisconsin did not. Probably much like going to > Las Vegas today to be married. > > Marjorie Smith > >> > >

I know many of my family had been married in WI in this time frame, and I face a similar dilemma. Not only did they use similar first names, but the last name White is a tad bit common. It didn't really help me much. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILJODAVI] WI Marriages I went in and looked at the WI marriages last night and was not impressed. It shows the name of the person that got married but not who they married. I have so many generations that used the same names over and over and so did their children, brothers, cousins etc. It would be very hard for me to find a marriage record without writing for each one. << The Galena Gazette reported (I don't have date) that people were flocking to this one Justice of the Peace in Wisconsin. Illinois had a waiting period and Wisconsin did not. Probably much like going to Las Vegas today to be married. Marjorie Smith >>

I went in and looked at the WI marriages last night and was not impressed. It shows the name of the person that got married but not who they married. I have so many generations that used the same names over and over and so did their children, brothers, cousins etc. It would be very hard for me to find a marriage record without writing for each one. << The Galena Gazette reported (I don't have date) that people were flocking to this one Justice of the Peace in Wisconsin. Illinois had a waiting period and Wisconsin did not. Probably much like going to Las Vegas today to be married. Marjorie Smith >>

The Galena Gazette reported (I don't have date) that people were flocking to this one Justice of the Peace in Wisconsin. Illinois had a waiting period and Wisconsin did not. Probably much like going to Las Vegas today to be married. Marjorie Smith

I just discovered the the WI Death Index (1820-1907) is also on line at ancestry.com This one is due to be moved to the "fee area" too, so check it out for free asap. -Cheryl Hemingway [email protected] <http://users.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi> Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/HomeonWeb.html> Cheryl's personal website http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> my Close To My Heart (rubber stamping & scrapbooking) consultant page.

The Wisconsin Marriage index from 1820-1907 is available for searching at http://www.ancestry.com It is still among the sources that are free to use, but you'd better hurry because it is due to go into the "fee area" soon. Remember that LOTS of Jo Daviess settlers married north of our border. -Cheryl Hemingway [email protected] <http://users.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi> Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/HomeonWeb.html> Cheryl's personal website http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> my Close To My Heart (rubber stamping & scrapbooking) consultant page.