Beni, Macoupin County Genealogical Society is releasing an index to Holy Cross Cemetery at Gillespie shortly. It is at the printer now. Price is yet to be set. Probably $10 - $12. Perhaps you know our cemetery publications chairman, Jill Talley Secoy of Gillespie. The genealogical society has published many of the cemeteries of southern Macoupin county. The Historical society at Carlinville has published cemeteries in the upper two thirds of the county. Mary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the coal-mining towns in Southern Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, etc., attracted immigrants, many of them Lithuanians in the early century. I belong to a Lithuanian geneological list and have volunteered to look up and record Lithuanian names from the cemeteries in Macoupin County, especially Gillespie where I grew up. I have two questions: Is there any information in the historical society in Carlinville about the Lithuanians. I have a feeling they were probably lumped together with Poles and Russians and their identity as Lithuanians was lost. Secondly, I don't relish going to the cemetery and writing down all the Lithuanian names (Holy Cross cemetery is probably over 1/3 Lithuanian). I'm lazy. so, I'm wondering if there is a published list of all the people buried in the various surrounding cemeteries. Thanks for listening. Beni ==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== Submit your Macoupin County family births, marriages, deaths, Bible records, articles, and cemetery information from your own research to be included at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/macoupin/macoupin.htm