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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