Hi Margaret I have the book "Ottawa Old and New" on page 109 of this book there are a few Pettit's listed, among them is your R.T. Pettit. There is a lot of information so if you would like I can copy this for you and snail mail it to you. I looked up the other names you mentioned and didn't find anything on them in this book. Or what you might want to do is to contact the LaSalle County Genealogy Guild they are at: http://genealogy.org/~dpc The book was $50.00 and I am very happy with it, it had a lot of great information. Let me know. Good Luck Sue K. Colorado > -----Original Message----- > From: Margaret Matthews [mailto:margaretm@excellent.co.nz] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 10:59 PM > To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILLASALL-L] PETTIT's of Ottawa > > > Hi everyone, > I have just joined the list and am researching my partners family and as > you will see haven't got very far in this particular branch! > Roswell Talmadge PETTIT is my partners grandfather, and all I know of > him is that he was a radiologist in Ottawa. His father ran a sanatorium > in the same town. He was married to Dorothy Lord BLATCHFORD and had 2 > daughters. > If any one has any information they can share on the PETTIT family I > would be interested in hearing. Roswell would probably have been born > c1890. > > I have found an ancestral file for Dorothy but with no mention of the > PETTIT's. > I did find a ROSWELL - TALMADGE marriage in the mid 1800's but no link > to Roswell himself. I have been in touch with the Lasalle Genealogy > Guild but as yet have not had a reply. Are they on email? > > Again thanks in advance for any help. > Margaret Matthews > Auckland, New Zealand > > > ==== ILLASALL Mailing List ==== > Don't know which county to choose in Illinois? Do a city > search here - http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo >