LOOMIS House in Chesterfield Township (yes, Chesterfield, not Carlinville) http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/history/loomis.htm Bios/First Families added or fixed bad link. J D WAGNER http:www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/bios/wagner.htm Joseph Madison VAN ARSDALE (bad link) http://www.rootweb.com~ilmacoup/varnars.txt Ferdinand STRATMANN (bad link) http://www.rootweb.com~ilmacoup/strat.txt New obits at this index: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/obits/m_obitx.htm include William Eggers Meta Louisa Kortum Francy Edward L Cordum Elizabeth Feuss Cordum Ernest Kortum Louis Kortum Jr Louisa Kortum Ludwig H Kortum Ella C Cordum Schaeffer Minnie Kortum Waters W Henry Weyen All of the above are also in the Macoupin County Illinois USGenWeb Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/macoupin/macoupin.htm And, got the birth files in the archives with the url for the index fixed. Check this one at: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/macoupin/vitals/birth-a.txt where I changed the url from: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/birthdex.htm to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/vitals/birthdex.htm (All of the births are now also on the Macoupin page.) An unknown picture submitted is listed on the picture index page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_pic.htm as Where is this cemetery? The file is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_pic-u.htm If I miss announcements to the list of new stuff on the Macoupin page, please don't hesitate to let the list know. Someone may be waiting for that piece of info therefore helping you, too. I need all Macoupin family/other reunions for this year so I can put a list on the main page. We could use some more proofreaders for the 1860 Macoupin Census. A good way to pay for this free information is to proofread a few pages. I want to thank our current set of 1860 census proofreaders: Carolynn Bettis <bettis@ctllc.com> Robert Bissell <r2macb@webtv.net> Robert Commagere <rcommage@ix.netcom.com> Jack Cox <jack_cox@kc.net> Shirley Dawson <bd.sd@townsqr.com> Sharon Haennelt <shaen@jps.net> Sue McMurry <sumcm@worldnet.att.net> Bernita J Riechmann <bjbond@agtelco.com> Yvonne Stedman <stedman@westsound.com> I am batting zero on the url for an IL query site which was found on AOL but can't find it otherwise. Someone mentioned this one as a possibility: http://searches.rootsweb.com/roots-l.html Now, with my huge salary in hand, will check out the highly paid employees who are filling my inbox with proofread 1860 typing. LOL Gloria ------------------ Gloria Frazier Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm