The following link is the new homepage for the Catholic Cemeteries of St. Louis. This site has many of the Catholic cemeteries of St. Louis including the biggest - Calvary Cemetery (over 350,000 graves). <A HREF="http://www.stlcathcem.com/">Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of St. Louis - Home</A> http://www.stlcathcem.com/ This link is shorter than the one given earlier to some Lists and should work. Enjoy!

When I get your e-mail, it is just like it appears here. I receive no actual news. I do receive the queries and they are compete. Am I doing something wrong in opening these?? gg ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:02 AM Subject: ILSTCLAI-D Digest V02 #124

Dear List: I'm in need of some help. I am looking for my great-grandparents living in St. Clair County in 1920. They lived at one time in East St. Louis on Natalie Avenue around 1950 to 1971. They are: Lovelace Brown born 18?? Lillian Brown (nee Dolphus?) born 188? Mildred Brown born 1917 anyone that can help please contact me. Thanks, John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com

Looking for information on ancestors or descendants of William Willoughby who came to American Bottoms from Delaware in 1835. His son James Goforth Willoughby is ggg grandfather. One report indicates that William was married to Hettie Goforth, so I'm interested in that family as well. The family lived near Lebanon, and also in southern Madison County in and around Collinsville & Edwardsville. I'm willing to share what I have put together as well - thanks for any help - Nancy

Could someone find this Obituary and email me what it says? I don't have the DAY , but I do have the month and year. I hope this is enough to find it Thank You for Any help! Carol Name: NELLIE STUFFLEBEAN Died: FEB. 1985 (born: December 7, 1922)

I am trying to locate some of my great-great grandmother's brothers. I believe they came over on the ship from Switzerland with her, her husband and their children, landing in New Orleans and up the Mississippi. I would appreciate any information anyone has on the surname Schulthaes or Schultheiss. I am especially looking for their location of origin in Switzerland. Many thanks. Conni in Ohio

Dear wonderful list I want to thank you as a whole for your response to my query On Aramowicz in the 1920 census. The response has been overwhelming. I now have information which should allow me to begin searching again. Regards John Aramowicz Researching; Aramowicz, Alexander, Monroe, Adams and Pelo [email protected] Perth, "Sunny All The Time" Western Australia Our Home Page http://www.arach.net.au/users/aramweb/

The St. Clair Gen. Soc is looking for a volunteer to make mailing labels for the Newsletter and Quarterly, who has MS Access, and lives relatively close to Belleville. We know not all members can attend the meeting and this is not required. A set of labels is printed a few days after the monthly meeting for each newsletter (10 times a year), and 2 to 3 times a year for the quarterly depending how often we can coordinate a mailing with the newsletter. Please reply to Diane at [email protected] (may have to cut and paste) In behalf of SCCGS, Thank You! Diane

Thank you listers. SCCGS now has two volunteers who will continue indexing the B'ville News Dem obituaries for deposit in the Bellville Library. FYI SCCGS members have been doing this since c1985.

I recently aske if anyone knows the exact location of Alton Junction. I know it is not in St. Claire Co. But would appreciate any knowledge you could give. gg ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: ILSTCLAI-D Digest V02 #119

Go to this site http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form type in Alton Junction select Illinois as the state, enter nothing else click on the bottom SEND QUERY and you will find it. Rosie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grace & Lee Gettings" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:45 AM Subject: [ILSTCLAI] Re: ILSTCLAI-D Digest V02 #119 : I recently aske if anyone knows the exact location of Alton Junction. I : know it is not in St. Claire Co. But would appreciate any knowledge you : could give. gg : ----- Original Message ----- : From: <[email protected]> : To: <[email protected]> : Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:03 PM : Subject: ILSTCLAI-D Digest V02 #119 : : : : :

Will Jill Bloomquist please get in touch with [email protected] I have new Kuehn info.

Hi list I am looking for Konstanty ARAMOWICZ or Veronica ARAMOWICZ. Does anyone have access to the 1920 census and could look up this family for me. They could be in either East St. Louis, Ill or in St. Louis Mo. Thank you for your help. John Aramowicz Researching; Aramowicz, Alexander, Monroe, Adams and Pelo [email protected] Perth, "Sunny All The Time" Western Australia Our Home Page http://www.arach.net.au/users/aramweb/

Dear List, I realize that this is in Washington County but I don't belong to that list. I am looking for the address of St. Johns Church but can't seem to even find a Plum Hill in any online phone book. Can sks look in a local phone book and give me the address? Thank you very much, Julia in California

List, My apologies...an O'Fallon, Illinois volunteer is needed (not Collinsville) who is able to save their Belleville News Democrat for the project below. ALSO we can arrange for someone to pick it up at your house. > Purpose: Save your copy of the paper for an O'Fallon area volunteer who will index the obituaries for deposit in > the Belleville Public Library. Probably all that needs to be saved are sections A and B. > > Kindly reply privately to me at [email protected] (may have to cut and paste) > Thank you! Diane

To inform yourself about the Homestead Act, try these sites. http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds/homestead.htm http://www.beatricene.com/homestead/history.html http://www.nps.gov/home/home.htm http://www.time-passages.com/homestead-act.html http://www.nathankramer.com/settle/article/homestead.htm (has a copy of the original act) To see if an ancestor received a patent (deed) to public land through homestead or other means, search the online government records at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ First click on the phrase "Search Land Records" on the green line at the top. They will ask you to enter your ZIP code to measure service to various areas I suppose, and then you are free to search. You can view the copy of the patent online in many cases, and there is a way to get a form to send to the National Archives for the application. If a copy of the patent is not available online, the site tells you how to obtain one. I have found this site productive beyond my imagination. The patents before Pres. Wilson were signed by the president himself. The applications contain the ancestor's actual signature and much information. The fees are quite nominal. Jerry in Boise

Can someone please tell me what the Homestead Act of 1851 entailed and what the amendment of 1857 to the Homestead act was? I have come across references to them in deeds dated 1858 and 1862 in St. Clair County. Any information is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cheryl Jordan Clinton County, Ohio

Dear listmates, Needed: A Collinsville, IL area volunteer who receives the Belleville News Democrat Purpose: Save your copy of the paper and deliver it twice a month to another Collinsville area volunteer who then indexes the obituaries for deposit in the Belleville Public Library. Probably all that needs to be saved are sections A and B. Kindly reply privately to me at [email protected] (may have to cut and paste) Thank you! Diane

I would like to include a copy of the page in the census records in which my Baldus family appears. I am working on a deadline and am not certain I will receive the microfilm from Salt Lake City in time. Is there anyone who would be willing to go to the Belleville Library and make copies for me? I will pay reasonable expenses. My ancestors are George and Josephine Baldus. I believe they are listed as Balthus in the 1860 census. This would be the first census in which they would appear as they came to the US in 1854. Many thanks. Conni Braun Columbus, Ohio

hi, At one time it was common practice to have several towns of the same name in the state, and many towns and cities had former names with a few having had several, so if you have used a current map to find an old town name you may have created your very own brick walls or even worse you have connected with the wrong lines. "Bloomfield" is an excellent example of this common practice, just look at any current map and find it now in Johnson County close to Vienna, in 1958 it had a population of 80. Did you know there was another Bloomfield in Adams County? Close to Quincy, in 1958 it had a population of 25. There were others in Edgar, Fulton, Greene, Johnson and Scott Counties and all were spelled "Bloomfield." Plus precincts in Johnson and Scott Counties by the same name of "Bloomfield." Nine localities, all named "Bloomfield." Do you need more examples, maybe hundreds of examples? Sure hope you can easily see the point i am trying to make... many genealogies are out there now with improper connections because an inexperienced genealogist has picked the wrong county and matched up the wrong "SMITH" or "JONES" or "WHOEVER" because they thought they had the right county to chose from. Wrong connections are now made as the names that were available in that county were close so they figured a few misspellings or similar names would suffice. Or the town was the correct town but the county changed several times? Some still can't make the connection and are experienced enough to know that close doesn't always count, so they know they have hit a brickwall. My suggestion is that you jot down the towns your ancestors are known to have lived in and look them up on the statewide list of over 16,000 place names using your Ctrl/f keys to do the search. Copy down each county that each town appears in after the town name and you'll probably be amazed to find that instead of them moving all around the state they lived in a few neighboring counties. For details of when the town was active you could consult the web pages listed below for the 25 Northeast Counties and the 44 South Counties as those are now online, and the last 33 West Counties should have details online this week. When those new pages are up and running i'll send out an updated e-mail on each Rootsweb county list as each county becomes available for research. BTW every fact is documented on every entry. The following web pages are enormous and each will take over three minutes to download if your connection is a dial up modem and AOL is NOT busy and your computer is PROPERLY tuned. If you get a message that AOL is busy just rapidly tap on your reload button a few times and AOL wakes up and lets you in. It works for me as i use the IE browser instead of the AOL browser... here are the url's: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/writing.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of Each Illinois County</A> is a statewide list of over 16,000 towns, cities and townships known to have ever existed, grouped by county, covers all 102 counties. Each county now has "last updated date: brief description of the last update" at the beginning of each county listing. Each county has it's own listing of US Post Offices of 1859/60. If a dash (-) after the name that indicates it is either obsolete or you won't find it on most current maps but it may appear on an older more detailed map, and as other counties are completed this will show on them as well. If i determined a listing was made either in error or it conflicts with other more reliable sources i've listed the source of information. This is the most complete list of its kind to be found anywhere. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/tv.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Northeast 25 Counties</A> is a detailed list of everything known about each town, city and township, with over 5567 listings. Each county now has "last updated date: brief description of the last update" at the beginning of each county listing. Each county has it's own listing of US Post Offices of 1859/60 as well as a listing of the 1876 RR's and the towns the RR ran through. The following is listed on each town or city, if known, in this order: how it got it's name; former name; alias name; later name; present name; a dash (-) after the name indicates it is either obsolete or you won't find it on most current maps; the township the town or city is in; another county the town may overlap into; date of incorporation; elevation; railroad name of old and new; (Post Office history of: former name; when established and in which county; when discontinued; new name if changed; if active and the current zip); RFD in 1960 or 1990 mail to town; and 1990 population. For each township, if known: how it got its name; former name; later name; every town that has ever been in that particular township; currently the town that accepts mail for this township; and 1990 population. Each has all towns and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1990. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dennisvcarter1/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Southeast 44 Counties</A> now has the following recent county additions (# of place names): Alexander (119), Bond (115), Christian (112), Clark (116), Clay (71), Clinton (103), Coles (136), Crawford (82), Cumberland (77), Dane (0), Douglas (63), Edgar (136), Edwards (45), Effingham (96), Fayette (120), Franklin (137), Gallatin (85), Hamilton (103), Hardin (53), Jackson (169), Jasper (79), Jefferson (122), Johnson (84), Lawrence (86), Macon (178), Macoupin (202), Marion (120), Massac (83), Monroe (125), Montgomery (157), Moultrie (65), Perry (100), Piatt (110), Pope (134), Pulaski (78), Randolph (178), Richland (73), Saline (136), Shelby (139), Union (106), Wabash (88), Washington (106), Wayne (147), White (116), and Williamson (234)... each starting off with all towns, cities and townships known to have been in existence from before 1818 up to 1960. Later... current information, up to 1990, will follow in the summer or fall with over 4984 listings in total. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dcarter956/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the 33 Western Counties</A> now has the following recent county additions (# of place names): Adams (171), Brown (66), Bureau (209), Calhoun (114), Carroll (101), Cass (88), Fulton (198), Greene (123), Hancock (166), Henderson (100), Henry (137), Jersey (87), Jo Daviess (157), Knox (156), Lee (142), Madison (455), Mason (93), McDonough (110), Menard (81), Mercer (130), Morgan (146), Ogle (175), Peoria (313), and Pike (184), Rock Island (203), St Clair (572), Sangamon (422), Schuyler (90), Scott (59), Stark (59), Stephenson (153), Warren (125), Whiteside (165)... each starting off with all towns, cities and townships known to have been in existence from before 1818 up to 1960. Later... current information, up to 1990, will follow in the fall or winter, with over 5550 listings. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/livingstoncounty/myhomepage/tv.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Timeline for Genealogy</A> is from the year 1400 to present, a chronological history of Illinois, United States, Germanic, British, France, and other European countries, each of these events have a bearing on family history. This list has been designed to help you also study your other lines that lived outside Illinois and each of the several thousand entries has been cited with its own source, over two dozen sources cited, and links to "the rest of the story" in many cases. This is the most complete list of its kind to be found anywhere. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/livingstoncounty/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Family History Research: Genealogy</A> is a master index of every family known to have lived in this county from 1831-1985. Several thousand surnames are listed alphabetically and each surname has each source cited, several hundred surnames have multiple sources cited, and 30 sources have so far been used. Many of these sources are online so you can easily confirm your suspicions of connections within a few minutes. Sources include records from biographies, cemetery, census, church, death, land and deed, marriages, military, etc., and a system is used so that by looking at the code following a surname you'll know the decade the record came from as well as the type of record and actual source. Many researchers from other states have found quickly found their missing connections from this index and i challenge other researchers to do this with a county of their choosing so others may quickly confirm their connections and be encouraged to research their roots. happy hunting dennis