Christian WINKERS is listed as an early settler of Mt. Pulaski Township/1837 in the source History of Logan County, Vol I, by Stringer, Chicago: Pioneer Publishing, 1911. Does anyone know anything at all about this family? I am looking for a name similar to "John WINKEN" who was said to have taken in my kin, John VOSHALL, as an apprentice ca 1805/Mason Co. KY. Can't find hide nor hair of either "WINKEN" or of my John VOSHALL between 1805 and ca 1827 when John VOSHALL shows in Sangamon county. I have no idea where he was between that period of time! Thanks! April aerobbins@earthlink.net

I went to look at the DeWitt Co. cemeteries since I am also up-dating the ISGS site before it is converted to a searchable data base and this is the message I received: "Frame ALERT! This document is designed to be viewed using Frame features. If you are seeing this message, please consider upgrading to a frames-compatible browser. " Has anyone else had this problem? Joan At 01:12 PM 10/22/99 -0700, you wrote: >It was a labor of the heart and they are always easiest! >Thank you for taking the time to comment! >Earliene > >-----Original Message----- >From: jriter [mailto:jriter@du.edu] >Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 1:03 PM >To: ILLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [ILLOGAN] DeWitt Cemeteries > > >>===== Original Message From ILLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com ===== >>Do you have ancestors buried in DeWitt County? Check out Earliene's hard >work: >> >>http://members.xoom.com/Earliene/pages/cemetery.htm >> >> >>Cheryl Rothwell >>clrothwell@mindspring.com >> >>Dear Earlinene: > >Thank you for your yeoman efforts on this DeWitt cemetary endeavor. >I havn't found any of my ancestors, but I do recognize the intensity of >work >you have done-what an example to all genealogists! > >Sincerely > >M. Riter >Denver >>==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== >> You can search the surname or county mail list msgs here: >>http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >>For Logan County, enter the word illogan. >>Find the names of other maillists to search: >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > > > >==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== >Logan County is on roll 200 of the 1860 Census. It takes the whole roll. > > >==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== >Logan County is on roll 200 of the 1860 Census. It takes the whole roll. > >

Wyckles may be the correct spelling of my last message. Sorry, Darlene

My ancestor Annie Chance was born in either Cornland or Greene co, OH. Her parents were Somebody Chance who grandma thought died in Greene county and Catherine Wykles. The story is that Catherine brought her kids out in a wagon train from Greene Co. She later married someone named Hullinger but I think that was in Illinois. Any sign of them? Darlene

I received this message. I have never seen this book which is from 1997. Austin Township must be in Macon County. We still have Latham, IL history books available if anyone is interested. They are $35.00 plus $3.00 p/h. There are 190 pages and many photos. The book tells about the history of Latham as well as Austin, Laenna and Lake Fork Townships. The last 67 pages contain family histories. If anyone wants one, e-mail me and I will e-mail the mailing address to you. Mary Ann <rad@frontiernet.net> Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

The records are head of household in 1820 census and cemetery records. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

I don't know if Joseph Penn Black's parents came to Logan Co. IL. from Green Co., Ohio. But, I do know that his mother was from Ohio. Joseph Penn Black was born in 1832 in Logan Co. IL. and I beleive that his family might have been Episcopalians which is considered Protestant. Does any of your data include the birth of Joseph Penn Black? Please respond to remsmith@pacbell.net Mary Black, California clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > If your ancestors arrived in Logan County from Greene County, Ohio, I have > an index to the 1820 Greene County, Ohio census and cemetery inscriptions > for Jefferson, New Jasper, Caesarscreek and Xenia Townships. A congregation > moved almost en masse from Greene County to Logan County about 1825. > > Cheryl Rothwell > clrothwell@mindspring.com > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > Logan County is on roll 200 of the 1860 Census. It takes the whole roll.

Need a census abstract form? http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/00000061.html This is an ad but the forms are just fine. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

I did the Manns privately and emailed the people who listed themselves as researching Mann on our research list. I will do this with all the names I will be studying for myself such as Copeland, Hoblett, Lucas, Turner, Wood. If you have one of those names and are listed in the research list be patient. I will send it as I get it done. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

Tips for searching the marriage archives from an article in Ancestry Daily News: As mentioned in the October 12 Ancestry Daily News (http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_12_99.htm#4), the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index is searchable online at: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html Two warnings about the index and the nature of the records contained within the index. 1) The index is NOT COMPLETE. Some counties are not yet included and the time span covered varies from county to county. A list of which counties and what years are available is at: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marrlst.html 2) The original records in each county generally do not start with the same year as marriage records in Illinois. They usually begin the same year the county was created, but early records might have been lost or destroyed. The online search interface is different from most. Unfortunately, there is no "standard" online search interface. What follows are some techniques I have used to find names in the index. There are certain to be others. ~ It is not necessary to enter the complete name. This can be helpful when you are uncertain about the spelling of the name or a middle initial. ~ Putting Smith in the groom's name box will locate every groom with the surname Smith. It will also locate every groom whose surname is Smithton, Smithfield, etc. The name must begin with whatever has been entered in the search box. ~ If I'm trying to locate a Julie, Juliana, Julia, Julee, etc. Rucker, as a bride, I can enter "Rucker, J" in the bride's box and every bride with the surname of Rucker whose first names begins with a "J" will be returned. A little search creativity is sometimes in order when using any type of online index or database. I wanted to find a marriage for a George Searle and a Lucina Kile in Mercer County. Typing in their names in several variations produced no results. I then searched for just "searl" as a surname for the groom (statewide). This gave me a listing of marriage entries, all of which had a groom whose last name began with "searl." I then used the find feature of my browser and searched for "luc" deciding that Lucenia could be spelled many ways, but hopefully the majority would contain the letters "luc." The entry was located as: "George C. Searle and Lucenia Eile married in Mercer County in 1872." Of course, I could always have printed out the list and looked at it manually. And looking for "luc" would have done no good had her name been listed as "Lusinda." Always keep in mind what your search is not searching for as well as what it is searching for. A similar approach was used to find an earlier marriage. I was searching for a Sylvester Burnsides who married Catharine Kile in the 1850s. There are two ways I could have conducted this search. 1) Searches of Kile, Kyle, etc. under the bride's name would have eventually located this marriage. 2) A search for burnside as the groom's name would have caught "Burnside" and "Burnsides" as the groom's surname. If I had not known the last name of the bride, my search would have been more difficult. One fast approach would have been to have my browser do a search for the letters "ath" hoping that it would locate Catherine, Katherine, Catharine, Katharine, etc. This approach was successful in this instance and located the couple. Of course if the name did not contain the letters "ath" this approach would not have worked. The difficulty was that the marriage was listed as: Marsellus Burnside and Ann Catherine Kyle, married in 1853 in Mercer County, Illinois. Middle names and variations on names again caused the problem. But if everything was spelled correctly genealogists would not face the difficulties they do. Another marriage I was interested in was that of Samuel Otto Johnson and Hedvig Olson in 1888 in Galesburg, Illinois. Entering the names in that fashion did not produce the marriage entry. I tried another approach. I guessed that the surname Johnson was probably going to be in the index correctly. Olson I had seen spelled many ways and could not think of one "fast and easy" way to search for it. So I opted for trying a search of "Johnson" as the groom and just put "ol" for the bride and focused my search for Knox County. There are alternate spellings of Olson not covered by "Ol" (Ohlson comes readily to mind), but it should catch the majority of them. This search produced nearly ten matches, one of which was: JOHNSON, OTTO OLSSON, HEDBIG KNOX 04/23/1888 This search was looking for any groom in Knox County whose name was Johnson that married a bride whose surname began with "Ol." Three things to keep in mind: 1) Remember, if you find your ancestors in any such index, follow up by obtaining the actual records. At best they might tell you more. At worst they might conflict with the index's information. 2) Remember also that if you don't find someone in the online index the original records used to create the records should be searched. While indexes may be a genealogical godsend, they are not divinely created. 3) These search tips are only suggestions and won't solve every index problem. Good Luck! ************************************************************ Copyright 1999, Michael John Neill. Michael John Neill, is the Course I Coordinator at the Genealogical Institute of Mid America (GIMA) held annually in Springfield, Illinois, and is also on the faculty of Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. Michael is the Web columnist for the FGS FORUM and is on the editorial board of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly. He conducts seminars and lectures on a wide variety of genealogical and computer topics and contributes to several genealogical publications, including Ancestry and Genealogical Computing. You can e-mail him at: mailto:mneill@asc.csc.cc.il.us or visit his website at: http://www.rootdig.com/ Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

> Hi Cheryl, > I am also very interested in the email you sent on having a index to the 1820 > Census for Greene Co,Oh. Like Arlen, my interest is also in Michael Mann, his wife, and any other connections. JOHN WILHAM

Hi Cheryl, I am very interested in the email you sent on having a index to the 1820 Census for Greene Co,Oh,; and the Cemetery Inscriptions for Jefferson and New Jasper, plus Ceasarscreek, if it is not to much work. Michael Mann came across with the congregation in 1827. Being the director of our local Family History Library keeps me very busy, but it is a nice type of busy. Arlen clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > If your ancestors arrived in Logan County from Greene County, Ohio, I have > an index to the 1820 Greene County, Ohio census and cemetery inscriptions > for Jefferson, New Jasper, Caesarscreek and Xenia Townships. A congregation > moved almost en masse from Greene County to Logan County about 1825. > > Cheryl Rothwell > clrothwell@mindspring.com > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > Logan County is on roll 200 of the 1860 Census. It takes the whole roll.

I should note that neither of these resources is copyrighted and both contain public domain information anyway. George Evans, head of household, 1820 census of Silver Creek Township and Jamestown, p. 132A No Bustard in index. No Goudy or Goudie in index. Polly Gowdy, p. 140A, Sugar Creek and Bellbrook Samuel Gowdy, p. 145, Xenia Township Alexander Gowdy, p. 150, Xenia Township James Gowdy, p. 152, Town of Xenia Alexander Foster, p. 139, Ross Township Cemetery index has no Evans in the time frame you gave and no Bustards, no Goudy or Goudie. Old Massies Creek Cemetery aka Stevenson Cemetery, located in Xenia Township on Jones Road: Alexander Foster died Nov 24, 1838 in 59th yr. Eleanor, wife of Alex. Foster, b. Jan. 16, 1785 d. July 7, 1819 Veterans buried in Stevenson from WPA map: Alexander Foster, section M, grave 39, war 1812 Veterans buried in Stewart Cemetery from WPA list: Foster, Abraham, no indication of row or grave, war Civil The Old Associate Reformed Cemetery aka the Gowdy Cemetery [Bingo!] located on East Third Street, Xenia -- This cemetery was one of the earliest in Xenia and was discontinued in 1849. 11 Gowdys -- I'll scan you a copy of those pages and attach them to email. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

If your ancestors arrived in Logan County from Greene County, Ohio, I have an index to the 1820 Greene County, Ohio census and cemetery inscriptions for Jefferson, New Jasper, Caesarscreek and Xenia Townships. A congregation moved almost en masse from Greene County to Logan County about 1825. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

As well as the Evans/Bustard families in Illinois, I am working on the Goudy/Gowdy/Goudie family (who did not move to Illinois, they went to Iowa) and the Foster families. They were in the Xenia and Springfield Ohio area from around 1800 to 1855. Do any of these names happen to be on your index? Thanks so much! Nancy Prince

Everton's Genealogical Helper, considered by many to among the top genealogical magazines, is now available free online. http://www.everton.com/genealogy/helper/ Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

The history, Mt Pulaski 1936-1986, includes a bio for Carrie Stoll Leimbach, daughter of Jacob Stoll and Mary Roos. It reports that Mary Roos was born in Kentucky and came to Illinois as a young girl. The account was written by Nellie Leimbach, whom, as you know, is a granddaughter.

I posted to this list when it was first started last month. I listed my grandparents--David and Grace (?) Mowrey. I now have an update to the listing. My Grandmother's maiden name was URY and David moved to Illinois from Adelphi, Ohio sometime between 1900 and 1905. I believe my Grandfather served as county clerk in Logan county also. I am trying to confirm this and the dates that he served. I have one other update. I have located my brother whom I have never met. This has been quite an experience for me. I hope all of you have an experience of equal magnitude in your geneological research. I am now also looking for any information about the URY family and any information about David and Grace Mowrey's other children. Thank you Roberta Mowrey Hollister

Here's another web site you might find useful: http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/immigrant/immpass.html Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

Judy, Mail should be sent to the society at: Logan County Gene. & Hist. Society 11 Arcade Court Lincoln, IL 62656-2743 Hours: 1-4 p.m. Wed. and 9 a.m.-noon Sat. weather permitting. I don't have the number at hand, but if you plan a visit and have a little drive as I do, it's best to call ahead. Dues are $13.00 for single, which includes their newsletter, Logan Roots and Branches. They will publish your query in the paper. Some of the 1999 articles included birth, death, marriages for 1876, and some naturalization records. I believe they have the naturalization records indexed at the Logan County, (Lincoln, IL.) Circuit Clerk's Office at the courthouse. Thanks for all who gave suggestions concerning my source code question. Carolyn