http://www.crtelco.com/~annette1/ The above address is the web address for the ILGenWeb site for Livingston County Genealogy. It has been on the internet since 1997. We might not have all the information you are looking for, however, we are alive and active out here in the Livingston County prairie. This list you are all posting to is a product of the GenWeb. It is nice that other people are becoming active in posting Livingston County information for all of us to search through. One word of warning however, the material contributed to the US and ILGen Web sites will always be for free to access. This can not be said of all sites. You can rest assured that your family tree information will not be for sale or used for profit by the volunteers who devote their time and energy to maintain these sites. I don't have a problem with the many messages I've seen posted by Dennis on this mailing list regarding his web site as long as the information remains free. If any of you are having problems accessing our web pages and lose the above address. Just type in Livingston County, IL in your search engine and I'll bet it will be within the top three to appear. My email address is annette1@crtelco.com Good luck to all of you. Annette Liptak Livingston County Coordinator ILGenWeb Susan Dillon wrote: > I have not had any luck finding Livingston County, IL information on the > web. It seems > internet genealogy has not taken hold there. I started my family search at > the Newberry > Library by sending for a surname search of the IL Death Index. This is for > deaths over > 50 years ago. It cost $7.00. The web site is at http://www.newberry.com. > This gave me > birth and death dates. I then sent for the certificates. This in turn gave > me addresses > where they lived, relatives and addresses of those present at the time the > death certificate > was filled out and cemetary locations. Since my relatives were buried at > the Chatsworth > Cemetary I wrote to Verda Gerwick. Her address is: > Lexington Genealogy and Historical Society, Inc. > 318 W. Main St. > Lexington, IL 61753 > > The secret to getting Verda's assistance is to send a SASE, ask for > specific info, > be grateful and send her a check. For a cemetary listing of a surname I > sent $10.00. > This got me a burial location, more dates, relatives buried next to them > and some- > times an obit. She does not have obits that ran only in the Chatsworth > newspapers. > I have been unable to find cemetary listings for this area anywhere else. > > I also have found that if you email the Newberry about where to find info > on a particular > group (nurses or miners) they can point you in the right direction. You > will need a > specific location and time period. IRAD has numerous listings on coal > mining. I don't > know if they are in Livingston or not. > > Diane > Poway, CA > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2