And though I only had some very distant relatives listed, it still made very entertaining reading.... the soldiers on box cars heading to Mexico and those dangerous new cars. I wonder how the great ice famine of Mt. Carroll ever turned out? Thanks Marjorie and Cheryl. Chris Straight Fairchild, WI

I forgot to send out a notice for tonights chat. But if you catch this join me in half an hour (8:00pm CST) for genealogy chat for northern IL and related PA counties at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm. We will start genealogy chat this Mon. Aug. 7 at 8pm CST at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm. Lou Cook ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

WOOHOO! This is what makes this job SO WORTHWHILE for me! I love to see the successful results of our work! Thank you so much for posting this. -Cheryl Hemingway Close To My Heart Consultant <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> Rubber Treasures ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Hoffman <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:34 AM Subject: [ILJODAVI] Elizabeth newspaper "clippings" > I want to say a special thanks for the transcription of the items from > the 1915-16 Elizabeth Weekly News. They had a number of items of > interest about the Hagie family, but also a real break-through! Mrs. > John Hagie, Sr. was born Regula Hoffman (sister of my husband's great > grandfather) and so I've been tracing the Hagies as part of the Hoffman > family. There were three sons, the elder two of whom were the Hagie > Bros. of the store in Elizabeth, but I had no trace of the youngest > after 1889. > > Until the notice of the death of young Stella Hagie in Jordan, MN, > attended by her uncle Fred and cousin Dr. F. E. Hagie. I still can't > find the third brother, Albert, in the 1900 Soundex, but Jordan was a > small town and he and his family turn up there in 1900/10/20 on the > census - and all thanks to that little notice on the Jo Daviess web > page! > > So thanks to Marjorie Smith!!! and to Cheryl for putting them on the web > page and notifying us. > > Cheers, > Jean Hoffman > [email protected] > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeangene/ > >

I want to say a special thanks for the transcription of the items from the 1915-16 Elizabeth Weekly News. They had a number of items of interest about the Hagie family, but also a real break-through! Mrs. John Hagie, Sr. was born Regula Hoffman (sister of my husband's great grandfather) and so I've been tracing the Hagies as part of the Hoffman family. There were three sons, the elder two of whom were the Hagie Bros. of the store in Elizabeth, but I had no trace of the youngest after 1889. Until the notice of the death of young Stella Hagie in Jordan, MN, attended by her uncle Fred and cousin Dr. F. E. Hagie. I still can't find the third brother, Albert, in the 1900 Soundex, but Jordan was a small town and he and his family turn up there in 1900/10/20 on the census - and all thanks to that little notice on the Jo Daviess web page! So thanks to Marjorie Smith!!! and to Cheryl for putting them on the web page and notifying us. Cheers, Jean Hoffman [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeangene/

Hello, I'm new to the list and am researching the family of LOCKHART BARRETT who migrated from Jefferson Co., NY through Iowa, to settle in Jo Daviess Co. in the 1840's where he purchased land and farmed. His wife was NANCY J. CARTER and their children were LOVINA, GERTRUDE, WILBUR L., WILLIAM E. (PRINCE ALBERT - known as P.A. BARRETT), and (BENJAMIN) FRANKLIN BARRETT. The descendents lived in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska. Anyone run across any of these names? T. Barnett [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

The Elizabeth Weekly News, dated Jan. 6, 1915 through Oct. 18, 1916 has been added to the Jo Daviess Co. IL USGenWeb site. Thanks go out to Marjorie again for her contributions. -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.

I wrote to the Galena Public Library regarding the WELLS family in the area about 1818 (Joel, Rinnah and Ira). The reply: "A Joel Wells obtained a "digger's permit" in June of 1827 from the Agent of the U. S. War Department. So, he was apparently involved in lead mining." Is there anyone on this list that might explain what a "digger's permit" might have been? Flavia Hodges, San Pablo, CA

This response to Gails query is bouncing. I am forwarding it to the list in case she in a subscriber. Christina > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christina Hunt" <[email protected]> > To: "gail knights" <"two track"@cns.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 10:33 AM > Subject: Re: 1850 JoDaviess census Index > > > > Gail, > > I found the following: > > Schneider, Peter IL Jo Daviess Mellville Precinct 1850 111 124 > > Schneider, Sarinai IL Jo Daviess Mill Creek Precinct 1850 111 144 > > but I looked at both families and neither has a Casper. > > > > Sorry, > > Regards, > > Christina > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "gail knights" <"two track"@cns.com> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 8:02 AM > > Subject: 1850 JoDaviess census Index > > > > > > > (K)Casper Schneider > > > Thank you for your time. > > > Gail Knights > > >

For three years I have been a member of the Jo Daviess group and I replied to Karen Blance Thomas after reading her article in our current Rootsweb newsletter. She had written about how computers have really aided in her genealogical quests. Here is a copy of what I wrote to her: I started my HART family quest one summer afternoon in 1976 and after about ten years I thought I had exhausted every possible lead. 18 years passed. 5 binders and one blue suitcases of information were stored away. After an 18 year gap my searching took off with lightning speed. I bought a computer. I really thought all that was left for me to do was to enter 5 binders and one blue suitcase of information into the computer. One Sunday afternoon in June of 1998 was I in for a surprise While typing a letter dated 15 years earlier, a yellow obituary fell to the floor. Since it listed many more names that were relatives of the deceased, I decided to use the search engines on the Web and people search to get some phone numbers. I talked with two very nice Harts, but alas, we were not related but then, on my final telephone call of the day, (I was a little concerned with the long-distance phone bill I was creating), I FOUND a relative who linked me up with another etc. etc. I had resigned myself to living with many unsolved questions especially about one of my Hart relatives who had died in 1961, BASIL HART. Of all the relatives, He was the most adventurous and, if you will, famous. With little more than a 8th grade education, he left home and worked in the mines in the West (Colorados Cripple Creek area) with some of his uncles and cousins and then the real adventure began. In 1910 he traveled with a cousin of Jesse James to Panama and worked on the Panama Canal. They traveled to Brazil and worked on the Railroad through the jungles of Western Brazil and they heard "El Dorado" stories of gold in British Guiana and off they went again. Basil established himself in western British Guiana (a grazing area where cattle was "king.") He married the daughter of the Brit. Governor of the area (her mother was the daughter of an important Indian Chief in the area) and was given hundreds and hundreds of acres of grazing land and created one of the largest ranches in the area. He raised 6 sons and one daughter. The children had dual citizenship and the sons fought with the Americans during WWII and trained people in jungle-survival on Trinidad. The British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote about stopping at the HART ranch in his book: Ninety-three days and another writer wrote about the Basil and the HART ranch in his book: Working north from Patagonia. So many unanswered questions. But now, thanks to the computer and the internet I actually found three of Basils children still living! Two are in Denver and one is still in Brazil. I think you can imagine what a thrill went through my body when I received my first email then letter then phone call from his daughter and then from her brothers. Now I know the "rest of the story." I am so thankful. Of all my relatives, Basil was the most adventurous. Most of the other worked as miners in the booms cities of Silver City, Idaho, Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado, Butte, Montana and Grass Valley, California. They were hard-working men who struggled all their lives just to raise their families. In 1983, my mother, aunt and I went back to Denver Colorado and met about 10 HARTS but never met the other branch who lived in Denver as well. I really have to also thank George Hart for slipping that obit. in one of his letters so long ago. He planted the seed with took 18 years to bloom when the time was right and computers linked the world... one Sunday afternoon, a yellowed newspaper clipping fell to the floor and it propelled me through one of the most rewarding adventures of my life. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Susan Hart San Francisco State University Internet: [email protected] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

please all of you join me for genealogy chat Thursday at 8:00 pm CST. The chat is geared to northwestern Illinois and related Pennsylvania counties. Chat is at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm You will find the chat button on the right hand side of the front page. Press the button, it will take a bit to load in, put your name in and your surnames in the profile. Click chat and you are there. Also feel free to invite other lists that would be appropriate. Lou Cook www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

I'm going to be out of town from Wednesday through Monday, so you not be able to reach me between those days. If there is something that you need looked up, please wait until Tuesday to send any requests. Thanks, -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.

Marjorie has been busy! Today she has sent me Will Book B, 1863-1875 for the Jo Daviess USGenWeb site. I noticed, in passing, many surnames that people on the list are researching. Please be sure to check this one out. -Cheryl Hemingway Close To My Heart Consultant <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> Rubber Treasures

Our thanks go to Marjorie Smith again! She has transcribed and contributed the 1854 Galena City Directory and it has been added to the Jo Daviess Co. USGenWeb site. -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.

I found this on [email protected], so I thought I might cross-post it to the ILJODAVI-L list. Hopefully, someone may have an interest in this. Dick Allen [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > GENEALOGICAL TREASURES FOUND > > > > o The following names are on the back of a picture of the >1898 Engineering Class of HIGHLAND COLLEGE, DES MOINES, IOWA. >Perhaps it might help give a clue to someone. If you get a hit >and want the picture e-mail me at [email protected] > Robert and Mona Gauger [email protected] >J. F. SMITH, Walnut, Iowa >O. S. TERRELL, Ollie, Iowa (Lancaster, Iowa) >W. M. ROBINSON, Anita, Iowa or Massena, Iowa >Albert PEARSON, Finck, Nebraska >Frank LEARNER, Princeton, Iowa >Charles ADAM, Omaha, Nebraska >Carroll WATERS, DeWitt, Iowa >James WHITE, Apple River, Illinois >D. A. MAXSON, Mobile, Alabama >D. A. BRADEN, Amovet, Missouri >Theo. MADISON, Stanhope, Iowa >H. F. POST >C. H. HALL, Anthon, Iowa >J. P. JONES, Des Moines, Iowa >William McCOY, Muscatine, Iowa >Hans LOFTASS, Deer Creek, Worth County, Iowa >Frank F. ELICKER, Muscatine, Iowa >F. W. KEPPE, Walnut, Pott County, Iowa >Edwin ROSS, Amherst, South Dakota >H. S. BACKER, Ulen, Minnesota >Frank SIMON >Fred McCULLOCK, Bell Plains, Iowa or Harlwick, Iowa >Alex McCELLAND, Des Moines, Iowa -- Oak Park >Edward LUSK >Harry FRAZEY, Shelby, Iowa >John NYHOUSE, Killauff, Jasper County, Iowa >Alfred DUFFY, Amherst, South Dakota >Edward KENNEDY, Claremont, South Dakota >J. D. JOHNSTON >George ALEXANDER, 1002 Broadway, Helena, Montana >B. A. FREEMAN, Kruistino, Canada, Northwest Territory >Oscar HALBERG >Earnest OTTO, Fredonia, Kansas >F. T. JARVIS, Wales, Iowa >J. B. COLLINS, Blaine, Kansas >Peter OHRT, Manning, Iowa >Cyril FENTON, Wymore, Nebraska >P. F. HACKMAN, Liberty, Kansas >E. E.GRAHAM, Union Mills, Iowa >George UPCROFT, LeRoy, Blooming Praire, Minnesota >Samuel ZAPP, Emerson, Nebraska > > > * * * * * > >PERMISSION TO REPRINT NOTICES FROM SOMEBODY'S LINKS is granted, >PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is not used for a commercial purpose; >and (2) this notice appears at the end of the message: > Previously published by Julia M. Case [email protected], >SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER: Genealogical Treasures Found, >Vol. 2, No. 11, 2 July 2000.

please all of you join me for genealogy chat Thursday at 8:00 pm CST. The chat is geared to northwestern Illinois and related Pennsylvania counties. Chat is at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm You will find the chat button on the right hand side of the front page. Press the button, it will take a bit to load in, put your name in and your surnames in the profile. Click chat and you are there. Also feel free to invite other lists that would be appropriate. Lou Cook www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

I was just reading a speech by John F. Kennedy which was given on Feb. 12, 1960. One paragraph jumped out at me because of it's reference to one of my own favorite towns in Jo Daviess County: We cannot be reassured that we are building the best defense merely because we now have a general in the White House. For we have had generals in the White House before-and when Grant was asked in 1868 if he really wanted to be President, he was honest enough to reply: "No, I am a military man, not a statesman. I would just like to be Mayor of Galena long enough to build a sidewalk from my house to the station." -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.

Please disregard this test. I am trying to make sure that all the bells and whistles of a new email program work. Vince

You are invited to join us for the genealogy chat on Thursday evening at 8pm CST for northern Illinois and those Pennsylvania counties whose inhabitants migrated to northern Illinois. Just go to WWW.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm, click on the chat button on the right side of the page, the chat room loads in slow but once it does, type in your name and put your surnames in "profile", click chat and you are there. See you tomorrow, Lou Cook ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Hello Everyone -- Two questions: 1. I am working to verfiy the dates of available vital records for Jo Daviess County? I have...... Births 1877-1916 Marriage 1830 - Death 1877-1916 If the above are true, are birth and death records after 1916 available at the state level and to whom? Also, can anyone lend insight into when any switches were made from registers to certificates? I want to make sure I am getting the best information available. I have heard stories of researchers elsewhere being given copies of the registers only, when a certificate was also be available with more information. 2. Is anyone aware if an index or plot book for Evergreen Cemetery in Hanover exists? Look forward to any information. Thanks, Chris Straight Fairchild, WI researching in Jo Daviess Co. -- Straight, Inman, Bowden, Drane, Breed, Hancock, De Gear, Chase, Cook and others

Ancestry.com has an incredible source available for free (limited time). Check it out asap while it costs you nothing! http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4725.htm -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.