Dennis - you are doing a great job - I am searching the surname Yost and having a very terrible time locating the Livingston County Historical Society and would appreciate any help there! The other surname is Hartshorn - thank you for your time, thoughtfulness and kindness in all this wonderful work you are doing? - Lynn in California

seeking to find family of Mary Jayne Clasper -- about 68 years old now -- lived in Pontiac, IL when she was around 16 -- probably married and has another last name. any help would be appreciated. ILLIVING-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain > >ILLIVING-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 58 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships o ["Glenda Argo" <argo2@mindspring.co] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from ILLIVING-D, send a message to > > ILLIVING-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >

Renke ALBERS immigrated to America and settled in Pekin, Tazewell Co, Illinois where he married the widow Janken Hinderks Freerks JANNSEN SCHLUETER in 1869. She was from Ostfriesland Germany and it is believed that he was also. Their children were Trientje, Jacob, and Johanna. By 1880, the family had moved to Flannagan, Livingston Co, Illinois. Renke apparently farmed until blindness in his later years forced a move into town. Renke and Janken are buried in Flannagan. --Trientje is the Friesian/Dutch for Katherine and she was known as Katie. She married William ERKS and they were my grandparents. --Johanna was known as Jennie. She married a ZEHR and lived to age 106 in Flannagan. --Jacob also married and lived in Flannagan. I'd love to get in contact with any of the descendants of Jennie ALBERS ZEHR or Jacob ALBERS. Gretchen Kohl [Alameda,CA] - GretchenKohl@aol.com

hi, I'll be happy to add your family names and anyone else's. As of this morning i've finished extracting and adding A through the letter M of the Livingston County Marriages up to 1900. Don't know if anyone's been able to access the Rootsweb Livingston County site but i recently posted all of the Livingston County Marriages up to 1900 at the site... it was a bit of cut and paste from the Illinois site to do this. If i understand the new system correctly (someone please correct me if i'm wrong) by having all of those marriages posted if someone puts an unusual name in a search engine, that happens to've been married in our county, it will pop up as a match. Hopefully it'll soon be like popcorn popping with matches all across the country. If this works okay i'll soon be doing the same thing for some of our neighboring counties, McLean, Iroquois, and Ford, as some of our ancestors' kin probably married in an neighboring county. I've already extracted the other county marriages from the site and am ready to do massive cutting and pasting, as soon as the system is up and running again. Its hard to eat popcorn and do the keyboard at the same time... if anyone wants me to do another neighboring counties, besides the three listed above, i will... just drop me a line... otherwise i'll continue digging up names to add to the Livingston County site listed above. For anyone just joining in on the conversation, the site that has the towns, townships, and a gigantic list of everyone who's lived in Livingston County (so far there's over a dozen sources listed at the bottom, anyone have ideas for databases i can extract more names from? Does anyone know if the 1880 US Census on CD has a way i could extract the surnames in alphabetical order? I'm thinking of gleaning surnames from the Rootsweb County site) the url is: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> Can't figure out why i'm getting several replies to posting on the new Rootsweb when everytime i try to visit there the screen is a blank form... recently a bright yellow box appears telling me to try back in 6 to 8 hours. Maybe the replies are old ones?? Anyone know? I've been spending most of my time lately added extractions to my web page so i haven't kept up on the Rootsweb county site. Some of the messages say that i'm the author of the message, which doesn't make sense to me and its the same for several other boards i'm tied into... i have about a dozen messages from Rootsweb that are piling up. thanx dennis ps please, just call me "dennis" and not "Mr"... whenever i see or hear "Mr" i still look around for my father, and he passed on over 30 years ago... its a spooky feeling pps Defenbaugh has at least four spellings so far in reply to > Mr. Carter, > I would like to submit a family who lived in Livingston Co., Illinois. > This parents came from Germany to York Co., Pa. They were in Pickaway Co., > Ohio for the 1840 and 1850 Census. The father's given name is Christian and > his son's given name is Edward. > > In the October, 1855 Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward > WALTHAN/WULTHANand Christian WALTHAN/WULTHAN. > In the 1860 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward > WILSON and Christian WILSON. > In the 1865 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are lised as E. > WOLSON and C. WOLSON. > In the 1870 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census Christian WOOLSON is > living with the Henry WESNER and wife > Esther (Defenbaugh) Wesner. > In the 1880 Eagle Twp., LaSalle Co., Census they are listed as Edward > WULZEN and Christian WULZEN. > > I have other spelling variations found in other documents but > descendants today are using WULTZEN and WULZEN. Christian's daughters > married into the DEFENBAUGH, EMMONS, FOWLER, FIELD and OBERLANDER/OBERLENDER > families. > > I will be glad to answer any questions. Regards.....Glenda Argo

Mr. Carter, I would like to submit a family who lived in Livingston Co., Illinois. This parents came from Germany to York Co., Pa. They were in Pickaway Co., Ohio for the 1840 and 1850 Census. The father's given name is Christian and his son's given name is Edward. In the October, 1855 Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward WALTHAN/WULTHANand Christian WALTHAN/WULTHAN. In the 1860 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward WILSON and Christian WILSON. In the 1865 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are lised as E. WOLSON and C. WOLSON. In the 1870 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census Christian WOOLSON is living with the Henry WESNER and wife Esther (Defenbaugh) Wesner. In the 1880 Eagle Twp., LaSalle Co., Census they are listed as Edward WULZEN and Christian WULZEN. I have other spelling variations found in other documents but descendants today are using WULTZEN and WULZEN. Christian's daughters married into the DEFENBAUGH, EMMONS, FOWLER, FIELD and OBERLANDER/OBERLENDER families. I will be glad to answer any questions. Regards.....Glenda Argo ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis V Carter <dvcarter2001@hotmail.com> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 1:50 PM Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co > hi, > > Please forgive the delay in answering as i subscribe in digest form and > don't always see the questions the same day they are posted. Right now > about all i can do is offer the free service of posting surnames of those > who lived in the county, there isn't room on my present web page to offer > sources for each name. My hope is to have room in the future and having a > system in place where we could all FREELY look at an index of thousands of > surnames and see something like this: > > Surname---Source > > ADAMS,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13 > ADDAMS,3,4,11,12,13,14 > ADDUMS,4,5,6,10 > ADDUMSES,5,12 > > Sources > 1=1850 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#001234 > 2=1860 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#002345 > 3=1870 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#003456 > 4=1878 Livingston Co IL Biographies by Stretching DaTruth > 5=1880 US Census Livingston Co, Ill NARA #G246 > 6=1889 Livingston Co, IL Telephone Directory by A G Bell > > In the beginning it won't answer detailed questions like, "What page is it > on," or "Who were the neighbors," or "how many times does the family appear > and on what pages," yet hopefully page numbers could be added in the future. > For now it would just be a beginning, especially on those very unusual > surnames... but at least it would point someone in the right direction, > where prior to this we had nothing to point the way. > > For the present all i can do is show there is proof a family with a certain > surname lived in the county... if everyone matches up to SMITH, JONES, > WILSON and JOHNSON there's not much i can do or say about that... i can > offer my professional services to anyone who either can't or won't do the > work themselves and would rather pay for it. > happy hunting > dennis > > in reply to: > > From: "eleanore" <eleanore@ntwrks.com> > To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:47:55 -0400 > > Dennis, > I just saw your website. I found 11 surnames that are in my genealogy. How > would I find out if > there is any more information on these names from your source? If > information is available, is > there a charge for you furnishing it? I grew up in Pontiac and graduated > from high school there. > Thanks, Eleanore in NC > -----Original Message----- > From: IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> > To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:19 PM > Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co > > > hi, > I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, > their > locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present > Zip > Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. > Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its > boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the > site > is at: <A > HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Liv ingston > Co, Illinois > Genealogical Research</A> > > BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known > to > have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use > and > freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in > other > words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), > Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will > make > it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to > follow > Horace Greeley's advice. > > Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down > the > precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the > appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most > active and your source of information, so i can bring the list > up-to-date: > > Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, > Chicago > and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five > Mile > Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, > McGowan > Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, > Pontiac > Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, > Smith's > Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, > Tucker's > Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown > > I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which > will be > added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating > web > pages :) > than > dennis > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. 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I am very interested in the Yost family of Pontiac and would appreciate any information. Thank you! - Lynn

hi, Please forgive the delay in answering as i subscribe in digest form and don't always see the questions the same day they are posted. Right now about all i can do is offer the free service of posting surnames of those who lived in the county, there isn't room on my present web page to offer sources for each name. My hope is to have room in the future and having a system in place where we could all FREELY look at an index of thousands of surnames and see something like this: Surname---Source ADAMS,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13 ADDAMS,3,4,11,12,13,14 ADDUMS,4,5,6,10 ADDUMSES,5,12 Sources 1=1850 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#001234 2=1860 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#002345 3=1870 US Census Livingston Co, IL LDS FHL Film#003456 4=1878 Livingston Co IL Biographies by Stretching DaTruth 5=1880 US Census Livingston Co, Ill NARA #G246 6=1889 Livingston Co, IL Telephone Directory by A G Bell In the beginning it won't answer detailed questions like, "What page is it on," or "Who were the neighbors," or "how many times does the family appear and on what pages," yet hopefully page numbers could be added in the future. For now it would just be a beginning, especially on those very unusual surnames... but at least it would point someone in the right direction, where prior to this we had nothing to point the way. For the present all i can do is show there is proof a family with a certain surname lived in the county... if everyone matches up to SMITH, JONES, WILSON and JOHNSON there's not much i can do or say about that... i can offer my professional services to anyone who either can't or won't do the work themselves and would rather pay for it. happy hunting dennis in reply to: From: "eleanore" <eleanore@ntwrks.com> To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:47:55 -0400 Dennis, I just saw your website. I found 11 surnames that are in my genealogy. How would I find out if there is any more information on these names from your source? If information is available, is there a charge for you furnishing it? I grew up in Pontiac and graduated from high school there. Thanks, Eleanore in NC -----Original Message----- From: IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co hi, I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site is at: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Livingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow Horace Greeley's advice. Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web pages :) than dennis _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Hi everyone - I think our computer was infected with a virus which sent itself to everyone in my address book. If you received an email from me yesterday with an attachment of chlinst.exe, delete without reading, and you might want to run your virus software. So far, I have been unable to find out any more information about this virus, but some of you have received emails from me that I didn't send. Sorry. Gail

I found one of my McCalla families in Penn hospital for the insane. I doubt that they were insane. I found their son down the street at the Alms house. Tells me that he couldnt take care of them and so he pout them there to be cared for. Also The husband was in one list with the men and the wife with the women. This was 1850 Census. I have McCalla and Macy from Livingston Co I found some neat things in the History of Livingston co.about Ruben Macy and he mentions his son in law John Andrew McCalla. ===== Norrita in idaho Researching MALM,McCALLA ANDERSON,GUSTAFSON,NEWMAN __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

hi, Thank you for the idea... its been one of my favorite sites for ages but wouldn't be any help looking for old ghost towns like i've been looking for, and some could've been gobbled up by larger towns. happy hunting :) dennis in reply to: From: Celia Snyder <cgsnyder@uiuc.edu> To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:30:50 -0600 Hi Dennis, Have you tried: http://geonames.usgs.gov to locate your towns that are missing township names? Celia hi, I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site is at: http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow Horace Greeley's advice. Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the precise location and hope someone out there could at least identify the appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web pages :) thanx dennis _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

I am from Odell and interested in the Odell, Cayuga, Pontiac area. Specifically the Reed, Becker, Roedell families. If anyone has any information on these names I would enjoy hearing from you.

Dennis, I just saw your website. I found 11 surnames that are in my genealogy. How would I find out if there is any more information on these names from your source? If information is available, is there a charge for you furnishing it? I grew up in Pontiac and graduated from high school there. Thanks, Eleanore in NC -----Original Message----- From: IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co hi, I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site is at: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Livingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow Horace Greeley's advice. Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web pages :) than dennis ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

Hello Dennis I could not get to the Livingston County town site would you mind giving the address again? Many thanks. Searching Kiley and Fraher in Cullom. Carmel

For Poorhouse information in various states, try this: http://www.poorhousestory.com/ There most definitely was a poor house or farm in Livingston Co., in one building or another through the years. As far as I know, it is now a retirement home, and they do have the records from years ago, including 1891-2 when my great-grandmother Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Walton was there with two daughters, one my grandmother who was given up for adoption in March of 1892 from there. That building is located on old Route 66, but I do not have its address. Linda

----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Rayburn To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:26 AM Subject: POOR FARMS Can I ask about Poor Farms? Was it a Farm where the poor were made to work to earn their keep? How were they housed? In England we called it the workhouse which was an apt description as it was usually a grim building and it really was a last resort to have to go there. Married couples were separated, any children in the family old enough to work [11-12 years] were found live away from home jobs. Did the same apply to the Poor Farms? I am fascinated to know, I have never seen a link to them on the web pages is there one? I haven't found any of mine in one yet, but suspect that is where I am going to have to look shortly for one family member. Thank you.........Diane Rayburn

Re. this web address, it comes up sorry can't find this page. ----- Original Message ----- From: <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:07 AM Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston Co > hi, > I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their > locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip > Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. > Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its > boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site > is at: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Liv ingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> > > BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to > have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and > freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other > words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), > Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make > it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow > Horace Greeley's advice. > > Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the > precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the > appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most > active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: > > Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago > and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile > Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan > Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac > Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's > Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's > Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown > > I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be > added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web > pages :) > than > dennis > > > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

Diane, It came up just great for me. Elizabeth --- Diane Rayburn <Diane26@btinternet.com> wrote: > Re. this web address, it comes up sorry can't find > this page. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <IllinoyGenealogy@aol.com> > To: <ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:07 AM > Subject: [ILLIVING] Towns & Townships of Livingston > Co > > > > hi, > > I've compiled a list of all the towns for > Livingston County, their > > locations by Township, the years they had a Post > Office or their present > Zip > > Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to > use and freely copy. > > Additionally each township shows a listing of > every town within its > > boundaries with former town names included, and > the 1980 population, the > site > > is at: <A > HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Liv > ingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> > > > > BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of > surnames of families known to > > have lived in the county at the site, its > available to everyone to use and > > freely add to it, provided a source is given for > the information (in other > > words, where did the information come from? Ex: > Rumplestiltskin (IGI), > > Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). > I'm hoping this will > make > > it easier for researchers to find the families who > later went west to > follow > > Horace Greeley's advice. > > > > Here's a list of a few towns that existed > but i can't nail down the > > precious location and hope someone out there could > at least identify the > > appropriate township. It would be nice to know > the years each was most > > active and your source of information, so i can > bring the list up-to-date: > > > > Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, > Cardiff Junction, Chicago > > and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's > Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile > > Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory > Point, McClary, McGowan > > Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North > Cornell, Owego, Pontiac > > Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, > Scattering Point, > Smith's > > Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, > Sullivan Centre, > Tucker's > > Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown > > > > I'm finishing up work on the rivers, > creeks, and streams which will > be > > added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having > difficulty updating web > > pages :) > > than > > dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

hi, I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site is at: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Livingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow Horace Greeley's advice. Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web pages :) than dennis

Hi Dennis, Have you tried: http://geonames.usgs.gov to locate your towns that are missing township names? Celia >hi, > I've compiled a list of all the towns for Livingston County, their >locations by Township, the years they had a Post Office or their present Zip >Code, and have them at my web page for anyone to use and freely copy. >Additionally each township shows a listing of every town within its >boundaries with former town names included, and the 1980 population, the site >is at: <A >HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html">Livingston >Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> > > BTW i'm also compiling a huge list of surnames of families known to >have lived in the county at the site, its available to everyone to use and >freely add to it, provided a source is given for the information (in other >words, where did the information come from? Ex: Rumplestiltskin (IGI), >Boothe (1860 Census), Lincoln (1855 State Census). I'm hoping this will make >it easier for researchers to find the families who later went west to follow >Horace Greeley's advice. > > Here's a list of a few towns that existed but i can't nail down the >precious location and hope someone out there could at least identify the >appropriate township. It would be nice to know the years each was most >active and your source of information, so i can bring the list up-to-date: > >Unknown Twp = Adams, Billing's Grove, Bluegrass, Cardiff Junction, Chicago >and Alton Junction, Clay, Cottagedale, Currier's Grove, Dimmick, Five Mile >Grove, Germanville, Glenwood Mills, Healy, Hickory Point, McClary, McGowan >Corssing, McGowans, Murphy Station, Norman, North Cornell, Owego, Pontiac >Junction, Richmond, Rookside, Round Grove, Saxony, Scattering Point, Smith's >Mound, South Point, Stoddards, Streator Junction, Sullivan Centre, Tucker's >Ford, Waldo, Wilson, Windtown > > I'm finishing up work on the rivers, creeks, and streams which will be >added as soon as AOL figures out why we are having difficulty updating web >pages :) >than >dennis > > > > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

Susan, Does the history have anything on HARTLE? Thanks a bunch! Celia >1878 History of Livingston Co., IL: page 471,472 > MORRIS FOLEY, farmer, P. O. Cornell, IL, was born in Ireland, 1827. >Married Bridget Whalen, ten children living: Patrick, Mary Ellen, Morris, >born Oct 1862, John, Frances Jane, Dennis, Thomas, Hannah, Philip, Katie Ann. > One child deceased Katie Agnes. > >1878 History of Livingston Co., IL: page 476 > JOHN FOLEY, farmer, P. O. Cornell, IL, born in Wexford Co., Ireland >about 1833. Married Catherine Whalen, nine children living: Dennis, Ellen, >Oney, Mary, Philip, Ana, Katie, John and Maggie. > >If you would like the complete biographies, please let me know. >Susan Ulfers Campbell > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp