This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/158 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the family of Joseph William Hoffman or Hoffmann, also known as Wilheilm Hoffman. He was married to August Lot. One of their children, Anna Augusta Hoffman, born May 1, 1871, was baptized June 16, 1872 in the Lutheran Church in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois. Any help would be appreicated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yg.2ADI/156.1 Message Board Post: The only Parrott I know of was Elias Edward Parrott who married Nellie Viola Edlen dob Oct. 8, 1889,(she was my grandmother's sister). I don't know if he was the mayor though.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yg.2ADI/157 Message Board Post: Looking for William Edlen dob 1853 m. Alice Carlock dob 1854. Alice was married to Ralston Davis in 1871. Both marriages in Mason County. Bath area.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/92.113.114.2 Message Board Post: Have been doing research in Bureau County for descendants of Elias Carter who died 1870. His wife was a Rebecca Carter who survived him. I cannot find her after time of his death. Do the Carter researchers here belong to his line? Thank you, Wesley Parrott

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PARROTT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/156 Message Board Post: Have been provided with a "possible" family tie of a PARROTT possibly with given name William who may have been Mayor of Bath, Mason County, Illinois and/or owned some type of store. I would guess time frame somewhere between 1850 to possibly 1910. You can see my information is somewhat sketchy, but am fairly certain locale is correct. Would someone please do a lookup on this man and any family he may have had. We know where his grandson or great grandsons live, but they have no more info and we believe them to be tied to our branch of the family. Thank you for any help you can provide.

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This is NOT a recommendation but it might be useful for some people. Ancestry [which hosts these mailing lists through it's Rootweb branch] is offering a beginning genealogy class online beginning January 14. Note that for the two weeks of the class you get unlimited access to the Ancestry.com databases. http://www.irishgenealogy.com/class/computer-genealogy.htm The National Genealogy Society also has an online beginners course: http://www.inetba-asp.com/sites/ngsoc/CourseAbout.asp They also offer a home study course: http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/eduhsc.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RISEN RISIN THOMAS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/155 Message Board Post: I am trying to locate information on the Emmet and Lusanna THOMAS RISIN / RISEN family who were listed as living in Bloomington, McLean Co. Il. in the 1920 census. Emmet was 44 and Lusanna or "Zanie" was 42. Their children included Levervatis, Charles, Fannie, and Arthur. They probably were alive at least to 1942 and were listed as living in Mason City. I am looking for their death dates, burial locations, children information, etc. They were originally from Green County, Kentucky. Thanks in advance. . . . . Jeff

The 1930 Census is due to be released April 1. You might want to see if your local G&H Society, library, etc. is planning to purchase the microfilm so you can use it. The 1930 census asked the following questions: Place of Abode 1. Street, avenue, road, etc. 2. House number (in cities or towns) 3. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation [this number supplied by census taker]. 4. Number of family in order of visitation [this number supplied by census taker]. Name 5. Name of each person whose place of abode on April 1, 1930, was in this family. Relation 6. Relationship of this person to the head of the family. Home Data 7. Home owned or rented. 8. Value of home, if owned, or monthly rental, if rented. 9. Radio set. 10. Does this family live on a farm? Personal Description 11. Sex. 12. Color or race [White (W), Negro (Neg), Mexican (Mex), Indian (In), Chinese (Ch), Japanese (Jp), Filipino (Fil), Hindu (Hin), Korean (Kor), other races spelled out in full.] 13. Age at last birthday. 14. Marital condition. [Single (S), married (M), widowed (Wd), divorced (D).] 15. Age at first marriage. Education 16. Attended school or college any time since Sept. 1, 1929. 17. Whether able to read and write. Place of birth 18. Place of birth--PERSON. 19. Place of birth--FATHER. 20. Place of birth--MOTHER. Mother Tongue (or Native Language) of Foreign Born 21. Language spoken in home before coming to the United States. Here follows 3 columns of "CODE (For office use only. Do not write in these columns)" relating to "State or M.T. [mother tongue]," "Country," and "Nativity." These codes were entered to assist in statistical tabulation and do not provide any information beyond that found in columns 18-21. Citizenship, etc. 22. Year of immigration to the United States. 23. Naturalization. 24. Whether able to speak English. Occupation & Industry 25. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, salesman, riveter, teacher, etc. 26. Industry or business, as cotton mill, dry-goods store, shipyard, public school, etc. 27. Class of worker. Employment 28. Whether actually at work yesterday (or the last regular working day)--Yes or No 29. If not, line number on Unemployment Schedule. [Note: Unemployment schedules no longer exist.] Veterans 30. Whether a veteran of U.S. military or naval force--Yes or No. 31. What war or expedition? [World War (WW), Spanish-American War (Sp), Civil War (Civ), Philippine Insurrection (Phil), Boxer Rebellion (Box), Mexican Expedition (Mex)]. Farm Schedule 32. Number of farm schedule.

Here's Dick Eastman's explanation of the problem with the Bureau of Land Management site. Remember, Illinois Land Records, which sometimes differ from BLM records, are available on the State Archives site at: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/data_lan.html - Bureau of Land Management Computers Knocked Offline By Judge Because of a lawsuit, Cobell v. Norton, genealogists are being denied access to the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management Web site. This site contains (or did contain) hundreds of thousands of records related to homestead claims and land sales. The site has been very popular amongst genealogists looking for records of ancestors in the western states. The site is offline today with no planned date for its return. It seems that U.S. District Judge Royce has threatened yet again to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt as he ordered her department to "immediately" disconnect from the Internet every single computer, server, and system that has access to individual Indian trust data. The problems and lawsuit arose from the government's extremely long delays in paying for oil royalties and grazing leases. The records were housed in a computer infrastructure that was so weak that a court-appointed investigator and his team of security experts were able to break in and repeatedly access, modify and even create data -- all without raising a response from the government. Judge Royce ordered Secretary Norton to "immediately" disconnect from the Internet every single computer, server, and system that has access to individual Indian trust data. The Secretary of Interior did just that. If you try to access the Bureau of Land Management sites, you simply get an error message saying, "Not available."

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCCONNELL, INGERSOLL, WILTON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/154 Message Board Post: >From the _Mundelein News_, published by Lakeland Newspapers, Lake County, IL Date: 21 Jul 2000 Page: B11 Kathryn McCONNELL Age 86, formerly of Peoria, died Wednesday, July 12, 2000 at the Lutheran Home, Peoria. She was born Dec. 11, 1913 at Easton, to Edgar and Fern Culp Ingersoll. She married Lowell R. McConnell on Feb. 24, 1940 at Wilmette and he died Nov. 29, 1971 in Peoria. She was a graduate of the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing; a past member of the Mt. Hawley Country Club; a past member of the Peoria County Law Wives; a member of the First United Methodist Church. Surviving are one son, Thomas C. (Mary Jane) McConnell of Antioch; one duaghter, Cathie (Richard) Wilton of Peoria; one brother, Charles E. Ingersoll of Redding, Calf.; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at the Cumerford-Endsley-Diggle Funeral Home, Peoria, with Rev. Dr. John H. Stanley officiating. Interment was at the American Mausoleum. ----- Transcriber's notes: I assumed that when the obituary named Easton, it meant the one in Mason County, Illinois. I have no further information on this person/family.

Rootsweb says the mailing lists threaded archives are finally working again. They've been up and down all year. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ I don't know how much use that is since it still requires you to know the month of posting. The other option is the mailing list archives where you can search by year BUT you'll only get a listing of messages posted. Then you click on that and see one message, not the whole conversation. http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl I figure by 2005 they'll have it so you can do something useful like search for a subject and get the whole thread. Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/ Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb

I have heard the name, Beulah, but know nothing about her. Would be happy to receive information about her if someone can help me. Dick Beck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Lund" <j-lund@uiuc.edu> To: <ILMASON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: [ILMASON] Conklin > Beulah Conklin, who is now deceased a couple of years, probably worked on > the Conklin lines too. I know she worked on the Wendell lines which is one > I was interest in since they marry in many of my collateral lines. All her > files etc are in the hands of her daughter who was putting them on a > computer when Beulah died. She lives in Mason City but I don't know her > married name. Maybe someone on the list does. > > Joan Black Lund, > grand daughter of Harry L. and Nina Ginther Agnew. If you lived in Mason > City during the 1930's and 1940's until Grandpa retired and have a letter > from "Santa", Grandpa probably wrote it. > > > > >Message Board URL: > > > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/153.1 > > > >Message Board Post: > > > >Mary Eliza Conklin married R.A. Curry in 1866 in Mason County. I list at > >least three children through 1875. There may be others. I have a little > >more if this helps. > > > ==== ILMASON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send an email to ILMason-L-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > >

In a message dated 12/15/01 8:01:58 AM Central Standard Time, ILMASON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Folks, this IS true. The Bureau of Land Management site is down. An Illinois alternate, not as accurate, is the Sec of State's public land records. The court did order limited access for DOI sites but not for those with Indian information. >> What a BIG disappointment and loss. Karen Foster Montgomery

Folks, this IS true. The Bureau of Land Management site is down. An Illinois alternate, not as accurate, is the Sec of State's public land records. The court did order limited access for DOI sites but not for those with Indian information. > The U.S. Department of the Interior, has been directed by court order to > disconnect all databases that allow access to "individual Indian trust > data". Since the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is under the directive > of the DOI, it has been disconnected, along with some other vital > databases. > > You can read the DOI memos concerning the court orders at: > > http://www.doi.gov/ > > Below are more links if you are interested in the latest news about the > court order disconnecting the DOI's databases, including our favorite > Land Patent Search at the Bureau of Land Management. > > Briefly, the databases that seem to be affected are: > > Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) > Bureau of Land Management (BLM) > Bureau of Reclamations (BOR) > Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) > Minerals Management Services (MMS) > National Parks Service (NPS) another favorite! > Office of Surface Mining (OSM) > > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/11/interior.reut/index.html > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48980,00.html > > Official US Executive Websites and their acronyms: > http://www.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb

Beulah Conklin, who is now deceased a couple of years, probably worked on the Conklin lines too. I know she worked on the Wendell lines which is one I was interest in since they marry in many of my collateral lines. All her files etc are in the hands of her daughter who was putting them on a computer when Beulah died. She lives in Mason City but I don't know her married name. Maybe someone on the list does. Joan Black Lund, grand daughter of Harry L. and Nina Ginther Agnew. If you lived in Mason City during the 1930's and 1940's until Grandpa retired and have a letter from "Santa", Grandpa probably wrote it. >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/153.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Mary Eliza Conklin married R.A. Curry in 1866 in Mason County. I list at >least three children through 1875. There may be others. I have a little >more if this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/153.1.1 Message Board Post: Dick, Please send me anything you have to ccrc9@netscape.net Thankyou.

Just a reminder. DO NOT post your address, phone number, or information about living people on the genealogy lists [or, really, any list]. Send a private email for those details. While only subscribers may post to the list the archives of these lists can be read by anyone. Do not give the world's creeps any help. Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/153.1 Message Board Post: Mary Eliza Conklin married R.A. Curry in 1866 in Mason County. I list at least three children through 1875. There may be others. I have a little more if this helps.