I just got the Heritage Quest CD for the 1870 Peoria census, it looks wonderful, but is not indexed and I haven't figured out any search function for names. I wondered if anyone with an index could tell me what page James Metcalf, wife Rachel and son Edwin were on. Otherwise it will be like searching microfilm, not easy for the City of Peoria. Pat Thomas Post Office Box 885 Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885 1-507-452-8290 mailto:[email protected] Knox County, Illinois USGENWEB CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/knindex.htm

Adolph Landuyt is my grandfather. Spriet was his mother's maiden name. I am happy to share information. Luanne Landuyt Webb

-------- Original Message -------- From: Alene Vogel <[email protected]> Subject: 1870 Census To: [email protected] Does someone have a copy of the 1870 census for Peoria County? I need the information for James CROSON, 1st Ward Peoria, Peoria County, page 266. Would be most appreciative of assistance. Alene

Does someone have a copy of the 1870 census for Peoria County? I need the information for James CROSON, 1st Ward Peoria, Peoria County, page 266. Would be most appreciative of assistance. Alene

The Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein is relatively rare in libraries of the United States. Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison selected the 1883 copy in our collection as one of our first digitization projects because of its usefulness for genealogists. The atlas helps in tracing the roots of families with origins in any part of the German empire from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Besides Germany, the maps of this atlas also cover the bordering portions of present-day Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Due to the large scale of its maps (1:850,000) and its thorough gazetteer of place-names, one can locate even small towns and villages on the maps in the Ravenstein atlas. A special feature is the marking of the locations of churches on all of the maps as well as one special map with an accompanying table giving statistics on the religious denominations found throughout the German empire down to the Regierungsbezirk and Kreis governmental units. http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/

I see you are researching Clarks. What kind of information do you have about Clarks in Peoria Co.? I am searching for information on Almon Clark who married Letitia Trego, Almon Clark who married Laura West, and De Joinville Clark, who might be the brother of one of the Almon Clark's. Thanks in advance. Patricia Max ----- Begin Included Message ----- From [email protected] Mon Aug 14 21:49:20 2000 Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:48:07 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Mon Aug 14 20:48:06 2000 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:47:54 EDT Subject: Re: [ILPEORIA-L] PEORIA CO. GEN. SOC. Old-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 120 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2033 X-Loop: [email protected] Resent-Sender: [email protected] Content-Length: 1051 hello, I met you in the family tree chat a long time back. I am on this list because I have other names I am researching. OVEREND, BALE, CHRISTIAN, CLARK, WILLMS. I just went to the ZETTLE reunion of which is also my DERRY family connection. Most of my DERRY family is/was from the Macomb, IL area. My great grandfather was a DERRY. His name was Lougene Derry. He was born in Astoria, IL & died in Carthage,IL. I have not done any research yet on the Derry family. BUT, I am sure you could find more information in the Macomb area. That would be in McDonough county. There is also the college of Western ILlinois University, which has a genealogy area I was told. I will check with some cousins who still live in Macomb and see if any of them have done DERRY research. Debbi Whitman ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received when you subscribed. Feel free to contact the list administrator, Cheryl Rothwell, [email protected] ----- End Included Message -----

The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2000 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. - Find All Your Ancestors Online! A person who apparently is a newcomer to genealogy research posted a message this week on a British mailing list challenging why anyone would spend time looking for genealogy information in books and in dusty old records offices. Roy Stockdill responded with what I think will become a classic answer. Roy kindly has given permission for it to be republished here: Dear All Welcome to my super-fast instant ancestry programme! I am proud to announce the launch of an exciting new service for wannabe family historians who find research the old-fashioned way rather boring. You, too, can have a family tree back to Adam and Eve ENTIRELY from the Internet!!! Here is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be repeated offer..... SEND me 10,000 dollars, your date of birth, your chest and inside leg measurements, the location of the pub where your granny met your granddad and the name of that milkman with the hairy nose that your Auntie Maude had the wild affair with - and I guarantee I will have your family tree at least back to Nebuchadnezzar the Daft of Outer Mongolia in the 3rd century BC before you can say "IGI" !!! NO more listening to boring old farts droning on about how you need to read a book on family history. Books - outdated, who needs 'em? NO more need to visit dreary old Record Offices or waste your precious time looking at boring bits of paper covered in squiggly writing that you can't understand anyway. NO more need to listen to self-appointed, so-called experts who try to tell you they can help you just because they've been in genealogy since March 1897 and who will try and persuade you to join a family history society where you will meet hordes of equally boring people who also think they know it all. I absolutely guarantee you a family tree you can be proud of, that will show your descent from such famous historical figures as Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Francis Drake, William the Conqueror, Charlemagne, the Norse god Woden, Charles II's head coachman's illegitimate son, a 4th cousin twice removed of Henry VIII, Cyril the Incontinent of Babylon, Frederick the Flatulent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Frankenstein, Joan Collins and the Man in the Off-Licence Round the Corner. How do I do it? Simple - I log onto the Internet, spend half an hour or so trawling the world wide web and - bingo! - there is your Instant Family Tree! Here's how it works... First, I find the marriage of your great-granny on the IGI, then I find someone of the same name who was born in a parish 100 miles away from where she was married, so that's bound to be her, isn't it? Then I ring up this mate of mine who specialises in doing look-ups from the 1861 census [which hasn't been indexed] in places like London, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow. He sticks a pin in anywhere on the census and gives me a couple more names to work with. I reckon they have as much chance of being your gt-gt- grandparents as anyone else, so it's back to the Net. I feed the names into umpteen databases and websites until I come up with someone of the same name who claims to be descended from Edward III. Ah, yes, this looks as good a bet as any. Nobody is going to notice if I casually slip your gt-gt-grandad and granny into a GEDCOM that shows they were also descended from Alfred the Great and the monk who did the slopping-out at Whitby Abbey, are they? So there you have it - a wonderful, Instant Family Tree, and all from the Internet. And what I don't find I simply MAKE UP!!! What could be easier? Apply now for the bargain of all time and discover how to make Internet genealogy really work for you! Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock "Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845)

The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2000 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. - Ancestry.com to Place U.S. Census Images Online The dream of many genealogists is about to come true: we will soon be able to view original hand-written census records on our PC screens while seated comfortably at home. In this case, it will be all of the U.S. census records that have been released by the government, including the years 1790 through 1920. Once completed, this online database will contain more than 450 million names. Ancestry.com, the sponsors of this newsletter, released the following announcement: CENSUS IMAGES ONLINE COMING TO ANCESTRY.COM Images Online(tm) Enables Members to View and Print Images of Census Records Instantly Ancestry.com, part of MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online family network, today announced the launch of an immense project to create digitized images of every record from the U.S. Federal Census between the years 1790 and 1920. Beginning today, sample images from census records have been posted to the site, enabling users to preview the types of information contained on these original documents. These census records, which Ancestry.com recently obtained from the National Archives, contain more than 450 million names. "The ability to view census records online is one of the most significant advancements in online genealogy to date," said Curt Witcher, manager of the Historical Genealogy Department of the Allen County Public Library. "Viewing original documents online not only saves people time and money by enabling them to view census records in their own living room, but original documents contain a wealth of information and may help researchers go beyond what they can find in an index." Once these images are launched as part of the new Ancestry.com Images Online(tm) service, the original census records will be viewable and printable online with an Ancestry.com Census Subscription. Through Images Online(tm), these census records will more faithfully reproduce original documents than mere indexes or bi-tonal, black and white images available with competitive offerings. The first images will be posted this fall, and subsequent postings will bring hundreds of millions of images to the site throughout the year. With the addition of these new census records, more than 1 billion records will be fully searchable on Ancestry.com by the end of this year. "By offering images of these census schedules, Ancestry.com is taking online genealogy to the next level," said Andre Brummer, general manager of Ancestry.com. "Census records are one of the most significant sources of family history information. Making original documents available online enables people to view and print documents that have traditionally been stored on microfilm and are only available in limited numbers of archives and libraries throughout the nation." In addition to the 450 million new records, Ancestry.com recently began an innovative project to reconstruct the vast amount of information lost when a 1921 fire destroyed nearly the entire 1890 census. The census substitute is the largest project of its kind and will fill the void that was created when the fire destroyed insight into an entire generation's family demographics, occupations, and much more. Ancestry.com is using remaining fragments of the original 1890 census, 1890 special veterans schedules, several Indian tribe censuses for years surrounding 1890, state censuses (1885 or 1895), city and county directories, alumni directories, and voter registration documents to construct a census substitute. More than 20 million records have been identified for inclusion in the census substitute. You can view sample census images online at: http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/census.htm The 1890 Census Reconstruction Project is at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/1890sub/main.htm This obviously will be a huge boon for genealogists. SierraHome's Generations brand and Heritage Quest made a similar announcement a few weeks ago. They said that they would offer the entire U.S. census online "sometime this fall." (See my July 8, 2000 newsletter for details.) The new Ancestry.com announcement says that "The first images will be posted this fall, and subsequent postings will bring hundreds of millions of images to the site throughout the year." In other words, the two companies will be releasing the first documents about the same time. Does this sound like a race? You bet. And genealogists will benefit. Both companies will be enhancing the original images to improve readability. The online images should be easier to read than many of the microfilmed copies. The Ancestry.com Web site says that the Images Online census records will more faithfully reproduce original documents than mere indexes or bi-tonal, black and white images available with competitive offerings. The records will be easier to read since they will be viewed in full 256 shades of gray. SierraHome also has a lengthy description of their digital enhancements of the original handwritten records on their Web site at http://genealogydatabase.com/learnmore.html. Ancestry.com already has some sample images on their Web site today from the 1790, 1860, 1870 and 1900 U.S. censuses. I took a look at these samples and indeed they are easy to read. The images are first displayed in a Java Applet viewer. I was able to look at the images in a standard Internet Explorer or Netscape browser. However, you can add a lot more functionality if you download and install the free MrSID plug-in for your browser. Full instructions are on the Ancestry Web page. With the MrSID plug-in installed, I was able to make the displayed image larger or smaller, zoom in and out, and save to a file or print on local printer. I found that I could zoom in to the point where only a few names filled most of the computer screen. I could look at the individual strokes of the enumerator's (census taker's) handwriting. Every single example that I looked at could be decoded, even those made with mediocre handwriting. I also saved one image to a disk file and then later imported it into Microsoft Word. The whole thing was simple. This brought the entire census page into Word. If I write a book or even an article about a particular ancestor, I probably would only want to import a part of a page: those lines that list the ancestor, his or her family, their property and possibly a few other lines showing their neighbors. To do that, I would first use a paintbrush program of some sort to cut out only the part I want to use and save it to disk. I can later import only that snippet into my genealogy document. You can view sample census images online at: http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/census.htm The Year 2000 looks like a great one for anyone researching U.S. ancestry. This is the year in which U.S. census records become available online for all. If you want to see the current issue as well as back issues of the newsletter, look on the World Wide Web at: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/d_p_1_archive.asp To subscribe [free] send an e-mail to [email protected]

On this same vein I see the following Surnames in the ALL-INDEX book Gilette Vol 4 Gillet Vol 6, 9 Gillett 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, Gillette, 4,6, 9, 10 Gillott, 3 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > Ian, > > There were many Gilliatt's residing in Creve Coeur, Tazewell County, > Illinois, which is contiguous to Peoria County. Is it possible that the > surname was Anglicized? > > Kevin > >

Ian, There were many Gilliatt's residing in Creve Coeur, Tazewell County, Illinois, which is contiguous to Peoria County. Is it possible that the surname was Anglicized? Kevin

I have an ALL-NAME INDEX of surnames of people who appeared in early volumes (I - XIII) of Prairie Roots, the publication of the Peoria Genealogical Society. I see mention of Gilyart and Gilzeart in Volume 4. Remember each Volume has 4 issues. These might still be available through the Peoria Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1489, Peoria, IL 61655-1489, or through a library. Diana [email protected] My Genealogy site updated 8/4/2000: http://www.my-ged.com/davis/

Hi! If anyone sees the name Gilyeat or Gilyeart in any of your searches I would appreciat anthing that you find. The specific family would be James Gilyeat or his brother John Gilyeart. Both of Elmwood, IL circa 1860-1880. Thanks, Ian Gilyeat Arizona, USA [email protected]

Hi Listers, my name is Lynn John and I live in Cardiff,South Wales,U.K.Checking the ss death indexes I found,who I believe is my Edith Savage(b.1886) died August 1967 in Peoria.If she is the right one she was the wife of Joseph Savage,and sister to Mrs.Ethel Rhome of Wellesley,Norfolk,Ma. Could sks look up an obituary for her,it should give a burial place.I would be most grateful. If I can reciprocate with look ups over here in Wales,please let me know. regards, Lynn John [email protected]

Hi Listers, my name is Lynn John and I live in Cardiff,South Wales,U.K.Checking the ss death indexes I found,who I believe is my Edith Savage(b.1886) died August 1967 in Peoria.If she is the right one she was the wife of Joseph Savage,and sister to Mrs.Ethel Rhome of Wellesley,Norfolk,Ma. Could sks look up an obituary for her,it should give a burial place.I would be most grateful. If I can reciprocate with look ups over here in Wales,please let me know. regards, Lynn John [email protected]

Free for ten days PEORIA JOURNAL STAR (IL) OBITUARIES, 1991-99 Source Information: Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. "Peoria Journal Star (IL) Obituaries, 1991-99." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original electronic data: From the electronic newspaper newsfeed service of the Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3634.htm Cheryl Rothwell [email protected]

Joan Lund, webmaster of ISGS, has updated the page on finding information on cemeteries in the state. http://www.tbox.com/isgs/finding.html Cheryl Rothwell [email protected]

Karen: Yes, thank you. I was having trouble with my browser for a few days and didn't download right away. Thanks for the reminder. Roger

Can anyone tell me if the 1880 census for Brimfield has been transcribed? I am looking for Thomas and Ann PEPPER, and their sons John, Thomas and Robert and their granddaughter Sarah who I am suspecting will all appear on this 1880 census. They only spent about 3 years in Brimfield. Any other records I might look at in this area that would help me track down this family? Any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks Alex Maxwell

Hi Debbi -- Yes, I do remember the "Rannelli" name in the e-mail address. How are you? I am still "digging" away at my DERRY line (sigh) -- sometimes good -- sometimes not so good. I haven't come across the first name of LOUGENE before -- how interesting! Do you have your ancestral tree done and how far back does Lougene's line go? Would be interested in having it, if you care to share. Thanks for your contact -- will be in touch -- Joan Derry

hello, I met you in the family tree chat a long time back. I am on this list because I have other names I am researching. OVEREND, BALE, CHRISTIAN, CLARK, WILLMS. I just went to the ZETTLE reunion of which is also my DERRY family connection. Most of my DERRY family is/was from the Macomb, IL area. My great grandfather was a DERRY. His name was Lougene Derry. He was born in Astoria, IL & died in Carthage,IL. I have not done any research yet on the Derry family. BUT, I am sure you could find more information in the Macomb area. That would be in McDonough county. There is also the college of Western ILlinois University, which has a genealogy area I was told. I will check with some cousins who still live in Macomb and see if any of them have done DERRY research. Debbi Whitman