Dear friends, For the sake of new subscribers to the forum who may not already be aware of our work, I would like to post our website address again, below. Our library has a large collection of church records, periodicals, minutes, photos, obituaries, books, biographies, etc., from which we have been trying to help genealogists since 1988, when we formally organized our library. We have over 54,000 names of members mostly in the midwest entered into a database in our computer, together with the year of birth and death when available, and the date they joined the church when known, etc. We are adding to this database, and to our collection, as much as time permits us to do so with our very limited volunteer staff, consisting of my wife and daughter and myself. We hope 2006 will be a good year for you, and welcome you to write to us if we can be of any help. Our website is: http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html Elder Robert Webb The Primitive Baptist Library Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois

Robert, thank you very, very much for posting this. I just found the names of several of my ancestors and the families into which their siblings married in Saline, Pope, and Williamson County IL in your database. I have always suspected that the glue that pulled them all together might have been a church, and now I know what it was. I also discovered from your website that the Friendship Church (in whose graveyards two of my ggg grandparents are buried) in Warrick County IL was also a Primitive Baptist Church. I also noticed that you do not yet have any information in your database about Scott County Missouri. Rev Thomas Malcolm Boardman, who was the pastor of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (also called Boardman Chapel) in Scott County MO from the decade the turn of the century till the 1920s was my gg grandfather. I would like very much to know if that church was also Primitive Baptist. I suspect it was, and I suspect my gg grandfather was a member of the Friendship Church in Warrick County IN, before he left there to take up a new ministry in MO. I have some photos of the Pleasant Valley Church in Scott County and of Rev. Boardman, my gg grandfather, and I would be happy to share with you if it turns out his church was Primitive Baptist. Please feel free to contact me at rmstrng@aol.com. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Webb" <bwebb9@juno.com> To: <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:06 AM Subject: [ILPOPE-L] Website of the Primitive Baptist Library, Carthage, Illinois > Dear friends, > For the sake of new subscribers to the forum who may not already be > aware of our work, I would like to post our website address again, below. > Our library has a large collection of church records, periodicals, > minutes, photos, obituaries, books, biographies, etc., from which we have > been trying to help genealogists since 1988, when we formally organized > our library. We have over 54,000 names of members mostly in the midwest > entered into a database in our computer, together with the year of birth > and death when available, and the date they joined the church when known, > etc. We are adding to this database, and to our collection, as much as > time permits us to do so with our very limited volunteer staff, > consisting of my wife and daughter and myself. We hope 2006 will be a > good year for you, and welcome you to write to us if we can be of any > help. > Our website is: > http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html > Elder Robert Webb > The Primitive Baptist Library > Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois > >