Folks, Until we get some legal definitions on the circuit court index which we non-lawyers can reasonably understand, use this 1856 Law Dictionary as a guide http://www.constitution.org/bouv/bouvier.htm Diane

Jesse, The information I have that relates to the JUEN family begins with a HENRY JUEN most probably born sometime before 1870. I base this estimated date of birth on the fact that he had a son JOHN L. JUEN born 17 June 1891 in Belleville, he married CORDUELLA E. STAUDER on 21 June 1921 in Belleville. They had at least three children, KENNETH, ROBERT and LORETTA. The above Henry Juen was living in El Paso, TX in 1927 when John died. Henry and his wife had the following children Dr. Henry Juen of El Paso, William (Toots) Juen of Belleville and Ida Juen also of El Paso, Adolph Juen of St. Louis, Lawrence of El Paso and Barbara of El Paso. I have data on the descendents of John and his wife Corduella and would be interested in working with you. Bill Buchholz Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

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SCCGS agreed to post the following Circuit Court Index 1819-1840 online prior to any other form of publication as a service to the genealogical community at large. From this link to the SCCGS home page, scroll down to COURT CASES and take it from there. NOTE: the search engine has not yet indexed these new pages, so you will have to search for DEFENDANTS and slaves on each subsequent page until 'spidered'. When finally spidered you should be able to use the search box at the bottom of the home page. Future pages will include a list of terms found in case files, plus about 10 case files transcribed in full. We hope to also include a page pointing out the 'clues' found within each of the case files that point to other record groups you might want to search as a result of the documents preserved in the file. If any of the index pages do not look right to you (information should be in columnar format), or if you have suggestions for better page presentation/explanations, please email me privately by pressing the REPLY button (in outlook express), and thank you. Diane Walsh webmaster for SCCGS

https://www.stclaircountyrecorder.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi Recorder of Deeds, St. Clair County 1986 - present There are no plans to put earlier records on the computer though. The earliest deed record books (through about 1875) are at IRAD in Carbondale http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html as are indexes through c1927 [contact info: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradaddr.html . The Belleville Library has deed indexes through c1908

Is anyone researching the name Kardinsky from Belleville? Please contact me if you are. Thanks!!! Eddie Lubinsky

forwarded at the author's request: The Belleville News-Democrat was nice enough to run an article yesterday on the following class, but somehow got the date wrong. The information below is correct. Thanks, and hope to see you at the program, Tom Pearson Colonel Friedrich Hecker Camp #443 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Proudly Presents: "Your Civil War Ancestor" By Tom Pearson St. Louis Public Library The presentation is FREE and the PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND Wednesday Evening at 7:30 P.M. April 6, 2005 Meeting Room at Southwestern Illinois College's Programs and Services for Older Persons Corner of North Church and East B Street, Belleville, Illinois "Grandma said my great-granddaddy fought with Sherman!" Do you have a Civil War soldier ancestor you've always wanted to research, but didn't know where to begin? Here's your chance to find out! Tom Pearson will tell us about research strategies and the varied resources available to researchers at the St. Louis Public Library. Tom is a reference librarian and Civil War historian with 16 years of experience researching Civil War soldiers and regiments. Here's your chance to put his knowledge to work for you! Bring, share a remembrance of your ancestor's Civil War experience. For more information contact: Dennis A. Hermann 618-235-5720

I am searching for information regarding Theodore Juen and wife Regina Batleg who I believe were living in St. Clair County, Illinois in the 1860's. Their son, Henry Thomas Juen was born in 1861 in Belleville, Illinois. I also know that Henry was married to Barbara Walter 5/15/1888 in Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Jesse __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Great news! SCCGS has received the long-desired, necessary, permissions to begin purchasing Probate-related microfilm for use at the Belleville Public Library! There are somewhere between 800 - 900 rolls in all, so the Society will have to acquire these over the years as the budget allows and through donations. Each roll costs $20.00 and will be silver positive film - the longest lasting. This just happened so we have no details on how long it will take to receive the first batch and prepare them for use. Rest assured the Mail List will be one of the first to know when the first rolls appear in the Library. Should anyone like to donate $20.00 towards purchase of a probate roll, donations may be made/mailed to the St. Clair County Genealogical Society - Probate Project P.O. Box 431 Belleville, IL 62222-0431 We will put an acknowledment on each box (one person, one couple, or one family per box; different person, couple or family on second box if you like; or same acknowledment on several boxes) upon your request. Diane

FYI---from another site: -------------- The Alton YWCA is sponsoring an all-day genealogy workshop on 2 April 2005 at the YWCA in Alton. The workshop will be presented by Michael John Neill, and the following topics will be included: Online Search Strategies Tried and Tested Tidbits Census Records Registration is limited and includes lunch and an extensive handout. More details can be obtained at: http://www.rootdig.com/ywca.html Thanks! We hope to see you there. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

Diane Walsh has graciously shared an old 1875 article from the Weekly Advocate which I've transcribed and will make available at my genealogy/history site struggling to document those Eymans and Imans of very early Illinois and on back. Abraham Eyman, some of whose land dealings were the focus of the article, was among those early explorers of New Design with David Badgley and the rest. From perhaps Mennonite or dunker/Brethren roots (there's some confusion), this old carpenter, blacksmith, and likely sheep rancher (he had a wool carding machine in the area before Belleville was a town) came to the area from Hardy County of today's West Virginia and found a couple of roles in history. He helped escort Jacob Stookey, retrieved from the Indians somehow, back to Hardy County after decades -- in time to badly mess up an estate settlement of his father which was tied up in court for years. Abraham was one of three citizens of Belleville who were elected to the second House of Representatives in a burst of anti-slavery sentiment, and he was long celebrated in the area as one of the first pioneers. Diane will know lots more than I about where and how to learn about land transactions in the county. Her article provides proof of how difficult it was for some of these people to secure title and hold onto land -- buying it out of hock from the sheriff as one could. I've had trouble confirming what I found described as "Virginia land grants", and learned how complex things were at a period often considered the "start" of Illinois history. What I came to realize more firmly, in looking at land records is that Abraham, in going out to American Bottom, wasn't so much at the edge of a new frontier, as he was part of a group, including many land squatters when politics wasn't sufficiently stable that land rights could be secured, who were taking over lands and settlements long held and by the 1800s being vacated by French. Eymans, it seems were spread out around Monroe and St. Clair, though all of them are not well accounted for. They seem to have been affiliated most with Stookey/Stuckey, McClintock, McGuire, Lacey, Clark, Whiteside, Cruse, etc. There's no proof at all, but it seems probable that Abraham's elder brother Christian, and his nephew Henry carried the Iman name, though Abraham was sometimes labeled with this one as well, and some of the Iman descendants chose to be known with the more traditional version. Care and appreciation, Steve Iman The story, as best we can know it for now, of an old Swiss family and it's migration through Conestoga and Hardy to Illinois (Monroe & St. Clair), Missouri, and points West. <http://www.enthuz.com/friends/family>http://www.enthuz.com/friends/family <http://www.enthuz.com/friends/family/illinois/index.htm>http://www.enthuz.com/friends/family/illinois/index.htm

If anyone on the list has an obituary or other document stating someone was buried in Harrison Cemetery (c1853 - 1880?) in Belleville, please contact me with particulars. Thank you Diane Walsh rengen@compu-type.net

In a message dated 3/15/2005 6:03:25 PM Central Standard Time, Sue12632@aol.com writes: Looking for proof that the following 2 women are SISTERS. & DAUGHTERS of - ========== HONNECKER, CHRISTIAN FUTTERKNECHT, LOUISA 01/02/1887 / 00002125 ST. CLAIR Couldn't find proof but did find this marriage in St. Clair County on the Illinois Marriage web site. www.cyberdriveillinois.com Hope this helps. Gloria

Looking for proof that the following 2 women are SISTERS. & DAUGHTERS of - George Fred. HOEHN (1798 Germany - 1849 St Clair Co., IL - marr. 1820 Germany to Catharina LAUFER (1798 Germany - ?) 1. Katharina (HOEHN) HONNECKER (1827 Germany - 1872 St. Clair Co., IL ) marr. 1846 prob. in St. Clair Co., IL to Jacob HONNECKER (1819 - 1884) 2. Maria Elis. (HOEHN) BECKER (1822 Germany - 1895 Madison Co., IL) marr. 1845 Germany to Johann Jacob BECKER (1816 -1895) Sue in NY

I am trying to research my 2nd Great Grandfather, Benjamin Stedman. His trail runs to Phelps County but I don't have any more information then this. Do you know who his parents are? Do you have any information about this man? Benjamin Franklin STEDMAN, Sr., was born in 1830 in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, and was buried in Thomas Fairview Cemetery, Phelps Co, Missouri, USA. Noted events in his life were: He homesteaded a farm before 1861 in Big Dry Fork Creek, South Dillon township, Phelps County, MO Benjamin married Martha THOMAS, daughter of Charles L THOMAS and Milberry WINTERS, on 1 Sep 1858. Martha was born about 1841 in Missouri, USA, died in 1873 about age 32, and was buried in Thomas Fairview Cemetery, Phelps Co, Missouri, USA. They had five children: William Albert, Charles M., Mary E., Alice A., and Hugh W.. This informaiton was from the Phelps County Genealogical Society, Phelps County Missouri Heritage, Volume II (Rolla, MO, Phelps County Genealogical Society, 1994), p88, col 2. Jonathan Bohlmann jebwhs87@hotmail.com

Hi Everyone, The St. Louis Public Library is pleased to invite you to an exciting new genealogy class, "Genealogy for Beginners #2: Organizing Your Genealogical Materials". We will cover keeping your materials organized, documenting your research, and a bit on the differences between paper records and computer genealogy programs. The class is for beginners to intermediate genealogists. The class will be held on Saturday, April 2, from 10AM to Noon. The location is St. Louis Public Library's downtown Central Library, 1301 Olive St, 63103. The class is free, and parking is free. You do not need to have a St. Louis Public Library card, or be a St. Louis resident, to attend. We do appreciate an RSVP - please reply to Kathy Smith at mailto:ksmith@slpl.lib.mo.us or call (314)539-0385. ***Please Note*** This is NOT the same as the St. Louis Genealogical Society's "Organizing Your Genealogy" class, which is also on April 2. Yes, the date is the same, and the topic is much the same - clearly great minds think alike. However, we don't want anyone to get mixed up and be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hope to see you all there! Sincerely, Kathleen J. Smith Librarian History & Genealogy

I obtained two copies (uncertified) of the death certificate of one William TROST, b. 16 June, 1843, in Louisville, KY, to John TROST and Katherine REYBERG, both b. Germany. Died 28 May, 1917, in Belleville. The place of death was Swansea, St. Clair Co., IL. The informant was John TROST. Unfortunately, for me, this wasn't the William I was looking for. I'd be glad to forward these certificates on to someone who might be looking for this William. Jane Brown Researching TROST, LETTER, HEMMER, HAUMESSER, WRIGHT, WUERTZ, SCHOENBURG, among others in St. Clair Co., IL and St. Louis, MO

I am looking for desc of William Llewellyn (abt. 1846 to abt. 1920) and Josephine Forquer (abt. 1847-abt. 1930). They had two children: 1. Samuel J. Llewellyn, 1879 2. John A. Llewellyn, 1885 1. Samuel J. Llewellyn was born Abt. 1879 in St. Clair Co., Illinois, and died Aft. 1930. He married Julia Rose Regelmann Abt. 1908, daughter of Heinrich Regelmann and Margaretha Lux. She was born 27 Jun 1885 in Illinois, and died 02 Jun 1981 in Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., California. Children of Samuel Llewellyn and Julia Regelmann are: i. Ida May28 Llewellyn, born Dec 1909 in St. Clair Co., Illinois. ii. Florence J. Llewellyn, born Abt. 1911 in Illinois. iii. Melvin Llewellyn, born Abt. 1917 in Illinois. iv. Clarence Llewellyn, born Abt. 1916 Any descendants out there? Steve

For those of you who live in the Belleville/St. Louis area and are able to go and hear Lloyd Bochstruch (Lord knows if I spelled that one right), do yourself a favor and go!!! He is excellent! Don't miss it. Jane, Pearland, TX

Tracy Press newspaper, page A3, no date on page Tracy, California Marion James Millard Oct 18, 1916 - Nov 19, 2002 Private services are planned for World War II veteran Marion James Millard, 86, who died Nov. 19 at Modesto Memorial Hospital. Born in East St. Louis, Ill., Mr. Millard lived in Ripon 20 years. He worked for Pacific Intermountain. He served in the U. S. Army. He was a member of American Legion Post 190 and Kiwanis Division 27, both in Ripon, Elks Lodge 1282 in Modesto, Moose Lodge 468 in Vallejo, Aahmes Shrine 121 in Livermore. He was also a master Mason for 54 years of service and an active member of the Consistory and Scottish Rite Temple Association in Oakland. He enjoyed dancing, traveling and working on cars. He will be remembered as a loving father and grandfather. Mr. Millard is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Eugene and Trudy Millard, and Richard and Marcella Millard, all of Tracy; five grandchildren, Barton Millard of Manteca, Shannon Costa, Scott Millard and Lacey Millard, all of Tracy, and Joel Millard of Chico; and two great-grandchildren, April Millard of Manteca and Alyssa Costa of Tracy. He was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Fern Millard, and a sister, Thelma Parker. Fry Memorial Chapel, 550 S. Central Ave., is handling the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners Children's Hospital, 2425 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, 95817.