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

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 >

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