You might want to look at the pages described in the attached letter for Livingston County. Dottie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` ----- Original Message ----- From: <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:59 AM Subject: [ILLIVING] Additional research web pages added > hi, > > So much "old" information has been added to my web page that i've added a > couple more pages to it and moved things around to make downloading quicker > and allow for future growth. Each of the three pages has a complete table of > contents at the top showing everything available on all three pages, the > URL's are listed in the the table of contents and the links are also placed > at the bottom of each page. > > Page one has only the surname index of all Livingston County public documents > and the indexing is about half done. > The URL is <A > HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepag e/business.html"> > Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research</A> > > > Page two is named as "Volume Two" for extracted documents, as listed below. > The URL is <A > HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepag e/family.html"> > Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research, Volume Two</A> > > The newly added "Remarried brides of Livingston County, Illinois, up to 1900" > requires an explanation to show how useful this may be. While i was indexing > every marriage for Livingston County from the State of Illinois site for the > surname index i noticed that every time a widow remarried they placed the > title of "MRS" in the name field and about two thirds of the time typed her > maiden name next to it... it soon dawned on me that her maiden name is not > recorded anywhere else... i found a few surprize remarriages in my own family > tree. Practicing the art of cutting and pasting i extracted every remarriage > and placed them all in order by the bride's former married name and left this > list intact, in case someone needed to find out if John Doe's widow > remarried. Then i highlighted each maiden name of 2/3 of the remarried > brides and copied them into a second list of alphabetical maiden names of > brides in case you knew her maiden name but didn't know her first or second > or third husband's name. The leftovers remained as a third list of those > remarried brides who's maiden name is not know, probably because their first > marriage was in another county, yet this will quickly show they did remarry > and the groom's name. BTW a couple of months ago i did a cut and paste of > every marriage for Livingston County and posted them by bride and groom at > the Livingston County Rootsweb Query Board the URL is <A > HREF="http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p =localities.northam.us > > a.states.illinois.counties.livingston&maxrows=25&dir=nex t">Livingston > Co,RootsWeb Query</A> > > Civil War Soldiers listed by their town of residence was also a cut and paste > extraction from the on line State of Illinois Archives site and this is > useful to search for your surname on a town by town basis and is much easier > to spot misspellinks. Something to keep in mind is that the town may have > shown up in multiple places within the State of Illinois or the township name > was used instead of the town and another town existed with the same name (ex: > Newton Township in Livingston County and Newton in Jasper County). BTW this > problem still continues today for Ohio researchers the cities of Bristol are > only about 30 miles apart. This list appears to have many more listings of > Illinos Civil War Soldiers than any others currently available. > > > Page three is "Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research: Counties of > Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, and McLean." Place names are listed by the > county and this might help if your ancestors lived close to the county line > as mine did for over one hundred years... they weren't fenced in by any brick > walls genies often talk about at the county line so they tend to pop up > everywhere. > The URL is <A > HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepag e/writing.html"> > Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research</A> > happy hunting > dennis

The Illinois State Archives and the Newberry Library both have web sites. They also have e mail addresses. I have contacted them in writing and by e mail. They have always been very helpful. I live in California, so they have made a big difference in my ability to do research over a long distance. Diane Poway, CA

Hi, If you need a lookup, I have a copy of the Riverview Cemetery book published by the La Salle County Genealogy Guild. St. Mary's Cemetery was opened in the late 1870's or early 80's, before that Catholics were buried either in Riverview/Riverwood or Lostland's. Joanie LyndaCJones@gateway.net wrote: > > Dear Diane, > I notice you are in my neighborhood. I'm in Rancho Bernardo. Are you active > in any genealogy societies? I am just beginning in Livingston and LaSalle > Counties. Are you aware of any cemetery lists online for these 2 counties? > My ggrandfather is living with others whenever I find him and am trying to > think of other traces he or his families might have left. > Colette Jones > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

Has anyone come across a source of information on Coal Miners in Livingston County? I am particularly interested in when they may have Organized a Union! Thanks for any direction here - Margaret

Hi LaSalle County has nearly all the cemeteries transcribed within it's perimeters. They also have a genealogy guild that can do lookups for you. I've just discovered today they also have a listing of some of the burials in Livingston County as well. Not all of them by a long shot but some of them. There were a few volunteers in Livingston who transcribed the info. and were kind enough to send a copy to the LaSalle County Guild. As they are a volunteer organization your best bet is to send in a request with what information you have and a reasonable donation. LaSalle County has the vital records for it's county up to 1916 along with the census info. (transcribed even!) in addition - if you are looking in the Ottawa area they have the marriage and obit's up to 1920 or so indexed and copied into books from the old Ottawa newspapers. They have some of the early year obituaries indexed for the Streator Times Press as well. Their website address is http://www.rootsweb.com/~illcgg/ Hope this helps! Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: <LyndaCJones@gateway.net> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] Research > Dear Diane, > I notice you are in my neighborhood. I'm in Rancho Bernardo. Are you active > in any genealogy societies? I am just beginning in Livingston and LaSalle > Counties. Are you aware of any cemetery lists online for these 2 counties? > My ggrandfather is living with others whenever I find him and am trying to > think of other traces he or his families might have left. > Colette Jones > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

Dear Diane, I notice you are in my neighborhood. I'm in Rancho Bernardo. Are you active in any genealogy societies? I am just beginning in Livingston and LaSalle Counties. Are you aware of any cemetery lists online for these 2 counties? My ggrandfather is living with others whenever I find him and am trying to think of other traces he or his families might have left. Colette Jones

What is the address for the web site for Newberry Library Lois Illinois

Lynn Thank you - looks like a road trip needs to be made! Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: <PAlbe74721@aol.com> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] City and farm directories > I have dealt with the Pontiac Library many times and I have to say they all > totally helpful, kind and thoughtful - a real great library to deal with!!!! > - Lynn in Calif. > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

I have dealt with the Pontiac Library many times and I have to say they all totally helpful, kind and thoughtful - a real great library to deal with!!!! - Lynn in Calif.

Linda Thank you so much! I'm having a bear of a time tracing John Begley who died in Blackstone in 1890. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony & Linda Kmiecik <tonky@ctnet.net> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: [ILLIVING] City and farm directories > Regarding city directories and farm directories, the Pontiac Library had city directories back in the early to mid 1980s, and Newberry Library on West Walton St. in Chicago had several Livingston Co. histories as well as some kind of farm directory. I would suspect the Pontiac Library also has county histories. I do not know if either one does research by mail request. I think not for Newberry. > > Linda (Lightholder) Kmiecik > Researching LIGHTHOLDER and BROWN (both Catholic Famine Immigrant families) and WALTON in Livingston Co. > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >

Regarding city directories and farm directories, the Pontiac Library had city directories back in the early to mid 1980s, and Newberry Library on West Walton St. in Chicago had several Livingston Co. histories as well as some kind of farm directory. I would suspect the Pontiac Library also has county histories. I do not know if either one does research by mail request. I think not for Newberry. Linda (Lightholder) Kmiecik Researching LIGHTHOLDER and BROWN (both Catholic Famine Immigrant families) and WALTON in Livingston Co.

If someone has city directories in that county, it should show the names of people with farms and how much acreage they had. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret & Randy" <rimfire@ivnet.com> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: [ILLIVING] 1880-1890 Farm Directories Does anyone know if there are farm directories available from 1880 to 1890 for Livingston Co? I am particularly interested in finding it for the Blackstone area. Thanks so much Margaret ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

Thanks! So does anyone have a city directory for the Blackstone area in this time period? Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: unicorn <unicorn@ezworks.net> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] 1880-1890 Farm Directories > If someone has city directories in that county, it should show the names of people with farms and how much acreage they had. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margaret & Randy" <rimfire@ivnet.com> > To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:45 AM > Subject: [ILLIVING] 1880-1890 Farm Directories > > > Does anyone know if there are farm directories available from 1880 to 1890 for Livingston Co? > I am particularly interested in finding it for the Blackstone area. > Thanks so much > Margaret > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Does anyone know if there are farm directories available from 1880 to 1890 for Livingston Co? I am particularly interested in finding it for the Blackstone area. Thanks so much Margaret

D E SHAW b abt1823 ,,ME md ? who died bef1864 and they had at least: 1)Augustin (son) b abt1851 ,,OH D E SHAW b abt1823 ,,ME md Laura b abt1839 ,,MA and they had at least: 1)Morton Lincoln b abt1860 or 1865 ,,IN was a Farmer in 1892 md 31Dec1890 , Livingston, IL, Laura May BELL b abt1872 ,,IL and they had at least: Ray Clinton 20Apr1892 Chatsworth, Livingston, IL i extracted the above information from microfilm by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on vital and census records of Livingston County and nothing more is known about the above families by me at this time. You might want to visit <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research</A> as the BELL family has been documented as living in Livingston County from 1850-1909 and you could easily look up each BELL family on line to see if any tie into yours. Same as for the CHRITTEN family they are documented as being there in the 1850's and the DRAKE family as 1860-1909. happy hunting dennis in reply to: In a message dated 8/19/01 5:01:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ILLIVING-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:06:18 -0500 From: "Margaret & Randy" <rimfire@ivnet.com> To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <002801c12808$1a17c7a0$2b8ca941@computer> Subject: [ILLIVING] Chritten, Drake, or Bell of Livingston Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Is anyone researching the Chritten family of Livingston Co? One of the Chritten's married a Bell and their Children were raised by Christopher Chritten circa 1880. The Chritten's also married into the Drake family and they came to Livingston Co., IL Would love to find fellow researchers and compare notes! Thanks, Margaret >>

Is anyone researching the Chritten family of Livingston Co? One of the Chritten's married a Bell and their Children were raised by Christopher Chritten circa 1880. The Chritten's also married into the Drake family and they came to Livingston Co., IL Would love to find fellow researchers and compare notes! Thanks, Margaret

hi, So much "old" information has been added to my web page that i've added a couple more pages to it and moved things around to make downloading quicker and allow for future growth. Each of the three pages has a complete table of contents at the top showing everything available on all three pages, the URL's are listed in the the table of contents and the links are also placed at the bottom of each page. Page one has only the surname index of all Livingston County public documents and the indexing is about half done. The URL is <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research</A> Page two is named as "Volume Two" for extracted documents, as listed below. The URL is <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/family.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research, Volume Two</A> The newly added "Remarried brides of Livingston County, Illinois, up to 1900" requires an explanation to show how useful this may be. While i was indexing every marriage for Livingston County from the State of Illinois site for the surname index i noticed that every time a widow remarried they placed the title of "MRS" in the name field and about two thirds of the time typed her maiden name next to it... it soon dawned on me that her maiden name is not recorded anywhere else... i found a few surprize remarriages in my own family tree. Practicing the art of cutting and pasting i extracted every remarriage and placed them all in order by the bride's former married name and left this list intact, in case someone needed to find out if John Doe's widow remarried. Then i highlighted each maiden name of 2/3 of the remarried brides and copied them into a second list of alphabetical maiden names of brides in case you knew her maiden name but didn't know her first or second or third husband's name. The leftovers remained as a third list of those remarried brides who's maiden name is not know, probably because their first marriage was in another county, yet this will quickly show they did remarry and the groom's name. BTW a couple of months ago i did a cut and paste of every marriage for Livingston County and posted them by bride and groom at the Livingston County Rootsweb Query Board the URL is <A HREF="http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.us a.states.illinois.counties.livingston&maxrows=25&dir=next">Livingston Co,RootsWeb Query</A> Civil War Soldiers listed by their town of residence was also a cut and paste extraction from the on line State of Illinois Archives site and this is useful to search for your surname on a town by town basis and is much easier to spot misspellinks. Something to keep in mind is that the town may have shown up in multiple places within the State of Illinois or the township name was used instead of the town and another town existed with the same name (ex: Newton Township in Livingston County and Newton in Jasper County). BTW this problem still continues today for Ohio researchers the cities of Bristol are only about 30 miles apart. This list appears to have many more listings of Illinos Civil War Soldiers than any others currently available. Page three is "Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research: Counties of Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, and McLean." Place names are listed by the county and this might help if your ancestors lived close to the county line as mine did for over one hundred years... they weren't fenced in by any brick walls genies often talk about at the county line so they tend to pop up everywhere. The URL is <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/writing.html"> Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research</A> happy hunting dennis

I thought some of you might be interested in this. Pekin isn't all that far from Livingston County and they have some great resources. You're doing a wonderful job Dennis. Your efforts are really appreciated. Wish I was that organized. :) Dorothy Nanninga Sewell dsewell@alaska.net Eagle River, Alaska Ostfriesland Ancestors http://www.alaska.net/~dsewell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A two Saturday seminar on internet genealogy will be held September 8 & 22 from 9:00 am-3:00 pm in Pekin, IL. It is sponsored by the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society. For more details see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iltcghs/workshop.htm Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb ---

I am searching for information on my ggrandparents and their ancestors. Ole and Gunda/Julia Olson and their son John came to Illinois from Norway sometime before 1865. John enlisted in the Union Army in January of 1865, giving a residence of Amity on his paperwork. He married Anne/Anna Olson in 1868. Her parents Andrew and Barbra Olson were born in Norway and Anna was born in LaSalle in 1850. In 1880 John and Anna were living in Amity Township, Livingston County with their children Betsey, Oscar (my grandfather), Josie, and Anna. Later, John and Anna moved to South Dakota so John could "take the hot springs" to alleviate the rheumatism he contracted in his Civil War service. I believe the girls also moved to South Dakota, and somehow my grandfather ended up in Iowa and married my grandmother Jesine (Jessie) Underberg. Barbra is buried in Bode, Humboldt County, Iowa. Any information would be deeply appreciated. Because of creative spelling of the last name, tracking! these people is a definite challenge! Please email me at gramaru@msn.com if you have any clues. Thank you! Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Hi, My MILLER family is found in Howard County Missouri. They are De Witt Clinton MILLER Born-9-Mar-1838 in Wythe County Virginia. Wife Margaret Catherine Cesling GOSE MCMULLIN Born-25-Jul-1837. Children are: Rush, Sarah, Clarinda were born in Howard County Missouri, Emma and Arthur Clark were born in Lamar County Texas. De Witt Clinton and Margaret are buried at Smith Chapel in Howard County Missouri. Susan