This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_912492668_boundary Content-ID: <0_912492668@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII << In doing my genealogy which seems to be for the most part finding family in Alton, Collinsville, and Troy I have a question. These family members came in from New Orleans from Brenen mostly and they all seemed to become coal miners. How many mines were there in 1860-forward tell when they closed? I went down in an elevator in 1946 with my dad so he could show me what they looked like. That was in Troy. I remember there were a lot of small little shacks in Troy where some of the families lived, and they were very poor. I would really like to know more about this. It seems like we had two generations working in coal mining. I also noticed that when they used to talk about this it seemed to be with a sense of shame. Was this the bottom of the line for laborers? >> --part0_912492668_boundary Content-ID: <0_912492668@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: Marennad@aol.com Return-path: <Marennad@aol.com> To: ILMadiso-L@rotosweb.com, Stopan@aol.com Subject: Coal mines in Madison County Illinois Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:02:52 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In doing my genealogy which seems to be for the most part finding family in Alton, Collinsville, and Troy I have a question. These family members came in from New Orleans from Brenen mostly and they all seemed to become coal miners. How many mines were there in 1860-forward tell when they closed? I went down in an elevator in 1946 with my dad so he could show me what they looked like. That was in Troy. I remember there were a lot of small little shacks in Troy where some of the families lived, and they were very poor. I would really like to know more about this. It seems like we had two generations working in coal mining. I also noticed that when they used to talk about this it seemed to be with a sense of shame. Was this the bottom of the line for laborers? --part0_912492668_boundary--