OOPS. I meant to type Warrick County IN, not IL in my previous post. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Armstrong" <judy@armstrongs.org> To: <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Website of the Primitive Baptist Library, Carthage, 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 >> >> > > > >