Sally Hathaway sent this information to me from the Illinois Roots List. I don't know anything about the journals and books. Mary owns them or finds them to sell so ask her, please. Old journals and books. Maybe some new books if she looks for them for you. Please contact Mary Clapp <YelloLeaf@GlobalEyes.net> if you are interested. Genealogy Society of So. Illinois Journals, 1997 $7.50 each + $1.50 postage. 64 pages each. SUMMER 1997 The Brockmeyers, Randolph & Jackson Cos. Family of James R. & Lucy Hatter Sneed, Gallatin, Franklin, Hamilton Cos.j The Allens & Wards, Franklin Co. William Jones Family, Perry Co. The Search For Harriet Rebecka Burton, Union Co. Creal Springs Cemetery, Williamson Co. Justice of the Peace Records, Ralph Gillispie Williams, 1877 Divorce Records 1877-1878, Jackson Co. Divorce Records 1837-1855, Franklin Co. Index, queries, and more. FALL 1997 Problems with Leards, Randolph Co. Priebes of Dombrowo, Germany, Randolph Co. Pope Co. Early History Stillbirths, 1878-1904 Massac Co. Massac Co. Will Index, 1860-1917 New Liberty Church 1923-25 Union Co Deaths in 1916, Outside Jackson Co. Oldsters of 1875, Franklin Co Old Settlers Reunion, 1874, Union Co. Robarts Provisional Regiment, So. Illinois Carbondale College, 1862, Jackson Co. index, queries. more. Spring 1999 Vol XXVI, #1 Where Three Counties Meet, Marion, Wayne & Clay Cos: The Holidays, N.C. Quakers, Marion Co. The Burketts, Wayne Co Browns of Brush Creek, Wayne Co The Morrises of TN, and Marion Co. The Hurleys, Williamson Co Probate Index, 1840-1870, Jackson Co Free and American, Union, Johnson, White & Franklin Cos. 8 families of color The Hazel Family, Pope Co. The Old 18th Infantry in 1886, So. Illinois The 1882 Anna Fair, Union Co. Treasure in a Red Leather Notebook, Williamson Co. They Called a Boxcar Home, Perry Co. 1900 census, showing a long list of men living in boxcars, DuQuoin queries, index, 64 pages, soft cover. KEEPERS OF THE SEAL, A History of Illinois Secretaries of State, 1977, from Illinois Territory 1809, photos, biographies from Nathaniel Pope, 176 pages, x-library, $15 postpaid. SOME FOUNDING PAPERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 1967, Richard A. Hatch, Birth of Land-Grant movement, Morrill Act, 1871, John Gregory, 139 pages, x-library, $15 postpaid. IT HAPPENED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, 1968, John W. Allen's Classic. Southern Illinois Univ. Press. Author of folkways & regional history, "Legends & Lore of Southern Illinois," old towns, Boy of Battleford (ca 1840 Rev. W. S. Blackman), Cave-In-Rock, Gypsy Caravans, strange beliefs about birds, Josiah Nickolson's Civil War Story, Mother Bickwedyke, Dr. Anna Bigsby, "Bat" Masterson, "Wild Bill" Hickok of LaSalle Co.,and much more. 100s of names, 400 pages, index, no dust jacket, as new, $25. + $3 p/h HISTORICAL & CULTURAL AGENCIES & MUSEUMS IN ILLINOIS 1989-90 Stinson Library, Anna, IL in Union Co. is on the Cover. Names and addresses of all Illinois Historical Societies & Genealogical Societies, map, showing all counties, Indexes, also listings of all societies by counties, 75 pages, soft cover inside a mylar cover, $16 + $3 p/h _______________________________________________________________ THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNODS OF ILLINOIS. 1952. Published by the Mattoon, IL Presbytery, by Wm. Iraine Blair. History of churches, pioneers, photos:Home of the Rev. John McDonald, Pleasant Prairie Church at Lerna & the Log College; a primitive heater used in the Log Cabin churches, maps, Photos of many churches:Shawneetown, Monmouth, Carbondale, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, and others. Decatur's Millikin Univ.; Lake Forest Univ; Presbyterian Hospital; Chicago & Nurses' Home. Photos of Gideon Blackburn, Cyrus McCormick, D.S. Johnson, C. Harmon Johnson, W. S. P. Bryan, John Timothy Stone & many others. 1000s of names. Church Lists by year organized from 1819- 1949. index, 370 pages, x-library, excellent condition. $35. postpaid. __________________________________________________________________ ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PERFECT TRIBUTE, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, 1906 (1956 issue), "This short, moving tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address has become a classic in the years since its publication, stirring new and old readers year after year." Nov. 19, 1863. Illustrated. 47 pages 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". The story of its writing and delivery & his touching visit to the wounded of both sides and the cemetery at Gettysburg. Front hinge is loose, otherwise good. $15 postpaid. ____________________________________________________________________ ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION, (c) 1980 Oscar and Lilian Handlin, A complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. Nothing of importance in his life has been left out. How this tall, lanky young Kentuckian, adrift from a loveless family, acquired the education and power of language to reach out and touch people. Regarding the Civil War, "This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see the end." The Lincolns were poor. Mary went through labor with Robert Todd, named after her father, in the cramped spaces of the Globe Tavern where they rented rooms, without help except for a kindly neighbor. 204 pages, index, x-library, $17.50 postpaid.