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

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