Here are some upcoming Illinois genealogy events as posted in Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Cyndi Howells will present three Internet genealogy programs and a question and answer session at an all-day conference hosted by McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society at McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois on September 29, 2001. For additional information and to request a registration flyer, contact: mcigs@mcigs.org Explore the Future of Your Past with Michael John Neill on Saturday, September 29, 2001 at the 2001 Fall Conference of Fox Valley Genealogical Society in Naperville, Illinois. Lectures by Mr. Neill will include "Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources," "Tried and Tested Tidbits," "Documentation Roadblocks on the Information Superhighway" and "How to Use the LDS Family Search Website." For more information, look at: http://members.aol.com/fvgs1/index.html/ The Fox Valley (Illinois) Genealogy Society's 2001 Fall Conference will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2001. This year's event will feature "Explore the Future of Your Past" with Michael John Neill. Lectures by Mr. Neill will include "Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources," "Tried and Tested Tidbits," "Documentation Roadblocks on the Information Superhighway" and "How to Use the LDS Family Search Website." Genealogy vendors; lunch provided. Early registration strongly suggested. Information is available from: orienespri@aol.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release Date: 8/7/01

This is not an endorsement and is forwarded for your information. The following is a review from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2001 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. It might be cheaper to buy the CD than to obtain the records from the National Archives but you need to know EXACTLY which CD you need. - Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files Heritage Quest has just released a new set of CD-ROM disks with a long name: "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants." In fact, this huge set of 898 CD-ROM disks contains images of the original applications. I didn't have time to test all of the 898 CD-ROM disks, but I did spend some time this week with one of the disks. The CD-ROM disks offers enhanced digital images of the National Archives M-805 microfilm series in an easy-to-use CD-ROM format. Each CD is copied from the microfilm and assigned a number to correspond with the microfilm's National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) identification number. I used disk M805-293, which conveniently has all Revolutionary pension applications for men named Eastman as well as other names that are close to Eastman when arranged alphabetically. Some years ago I examined the same records on microfilm. I inserted the CD-ROM into my PC, loaded the software, and dove in without reading any instruction. I was soon able to find ancestors in the index and then see the original pension application records. These are not transcribed records; they are images of the original handwritten records. Most applications contain 6 or more pages on each individual. Quoting from Heritage Quest's description: The records contain both genealogical and historical information. A veteran's pension application normally gives his former rank, unit, and period of service, age or date of birth, his residence, and sometimes his birthplace. Property schedules often give names and ages of a veteran's wife and children. The application of a widow seeking a pension or a bounty land warrant may give her age, residence, maiden name, date and place of her marriage, and date and place of death of her husband. Application papers submitted by children and other heirs or dependents seeking pensions or bounty land warrants generally contain information about their ages and residences. Applicants often submitted the family-record pages from family Bibles and other documents to substantiate their claims. These Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files contain genealogical records from an estimated 80,000 individuals who served in the American military, navy, and marines, both officers and enlisted men, in the Revolutionary War. Most of the records were dated between 1800 and 1900. I found the navigation of the Heritage Quest software to be a bit confusing at first. However, within a few minutes I was able to figure out the indexing software and then I was able to navigate easily. There is no manual with the CD-ROM, but there is a built- in Help file. Once I had used the CD-ROM disk for a while, I found that I could navigate through all the images and then enhance, magnify, zoom, copy, save and print any of the original source documents that I wished. Printing one of the documents on the CD-ROM produced a better image than most of the photocopies of the microfilm images that I have made in past years. Also, I was able to enhance some of the images within the Heritage Quest software. I was able to adjust the brightness, contrast and gamma. However, for more advanced image enhancement, I simply saved the image to my hard drive as a .TIF file and then used a more sophisticated image-editing program. I could then import the image into a word processing document or into many modern genealogy programs. You can use the image of the Revolutionary War pension application in the same manner as any other scanned image. The handwriting on these records varies a lot. Some of the records are in beautiful penmanship while other applications appear to be filled out by paintbrush. By zooming in on individual letters and occasionally enhancing the images in a sophisticated graphics editor, I was able to decode words on a letter-by-letter basis, something I could not have easily done had I seen the same images on microfilm. In short, I found the CD-ROM images to be better than the microfilmed images of the same records. Heritage Quest's new "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants" CD-ROM disks require Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000, a 100 MHz Pentium or faster CPU, at least 16 megabytes of RAM memory, a 4- speed or faster CD-ROM and 88 megabytes free hard drive space. These new digital CD's are offered with a special "Buy 3 Get 1 Free" offer through September 30th. The retail price is $19.95 although members of the Heritage Quest Research Club pay $14.95. Those prices do not include postage or any possible taxes. Earlier I wrote that the "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files" CD-ROM disks are new. In fact, they are so new that I could not find them listed on Heritage Quest's Web site. I suspect this will change within a very few days. I'd suggest that you frequently check http://www.HeritageQuest.com. Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release Date: 8/7/01

Here's a resource for information on Odd Fellows and Rebekahs: http://norm28.hsc.usc.edu/IOOF/FamilyResearch.html The grand lodge for Illinois is located in Lincoln, Logan County: Grand Lodge Secretary - Lyndall Pigg, PO Box 248, Lincoln IL 62656-0248. e-mail: glioof@ccaonline.com Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release Date: 8/7/01

Kathy, I don't think so, my family didn't come to the US till 1858.

This couple attends our church -- please help them pray. Thanks, Leah Goolsby ************************************ My Name is Gary "Nick" Hogman, Some of you receiving this know me, some do not. My wife Cindy is 32 years old and has just been diagnosed 3 days ago with stage 4 cervical cancer and her chances for survival are very slim. She was pregnant with out second child and had miscarried at 5 months and now we know why. This is a request for you to forward this email to everyone you know asking for prayer. The more people that pray for her to be healed the better. Company email distributions, friends, family, people you don't even know. Just forward them this email and let them do the same, Pray and forward. It only takes a second to hit forward and click on any distribution list you have. Please do it and don't delete this, your prayer will help save her life. Please pray and ask everyone you know to pray to the Lord for the HEALING of Cindy, removal of all cancer in her body so she may enjoy all that life has to offer, and to continue to be the wonderful mother to our 5 year old son Michael. The power of Prayer is unsurpassed. Unsurpassed. I want the whole world to have her in their prayers the next few weeks. God will hear our cry. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this and helping with our quest for healing, no words can express how much power we have when we do a little extra to come together Regards, Cindy's in love husband.

Do you think you have a Revolutionary patriot (male or female) in your family tree? The DAR will search their database of proven Revolutionary patriots free of charge. This service is available at www.dar.org

Hi List, Will try this again. So far have had no luck. Lookinf for: John Miller b abt. 1812 to US 1858 from Hesse Darmstadt, Ger. wife Elizabeth b abt 1814 Children: GEORGE MUELLER b 29 Sep 1844 hesse Darm. marr 3 Sep 1874 Washington, Tazewell, IL. Died 16 May 1928 Hudson,KS. Peter Miller b abt 1846 Hesse Darm. marr. Josephine? prob. lived in Paxton, Ford, IL. Mary Miller b abt 1848 Hesse Darm. Jacob Miller b abt 1850 marr. Minnie? prob lived in Washington, IL. Daniel Miller b abt 1852 . George went by Mueller the rest used Miller, I think. Would really like to find some more of my family. Debbie

I guess I'm behind times but I just heard of this site called Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://raogk.rootsweb.com/index.html and have signed up as a volunteer. It's only once a month and I thought some of the rest of you might be interested. Dottie

This may be of interest -- you never know with partials: IL / Fulton / 1870 (Partial) Dist/Twp/City Keeton Twp. ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/fulton/1870 pg0106a.txt partial.txt 14 index files

Hello I"m looking for information about Jesse McGee who lived in Tazewell County, from about 1830 (or before) for many decades. He may be the same Jesse McGee who taught school (probably very briefly) on the Tazewell-Peoria County border in 1824. Does anyone have access to a Tazewell County history, which might have information on this family? I believe he is closely related to Ann McGee, my ancestral grandmother who lived just into Peoria County, across from Tazewell County in 1832, with her husband John RIDGEWAY. If anyone recognizes this line, I have more data on this family in Tazewell county--what I don't have is a ancestry for this Jesse McGee. Thanks for any information on this family. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <cashby2587@lvcta.com> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:56 PM Subject: Re: subscribe > You have added to the subscriber list of: > > ILTAZEWE-D@rootsweb.com > > the following mail address: > > cashby2587@lvcta.com > > By default, copies of your own submissions will be returned. > > Welcome to the ILTAZEWE mailing list! Please SAVE this message for future reference. > > Please use good net manners when posting to the list. Do NOT back quote the entire message when you reply. Be nice to newbies who may make a few mistakes when they start out. Stick to the topic, ie, Tazewell County, Illinois, genealogy. Save the jokes, virus alerts, self promotion and the like for your favorite chat list. > > You are currently subscribed in > "digest mode", which means that several postings made > to ILTAZEWE will be consolidated together and sent to you as a single > large message. The directions on how to change to mail mode (where > you receive every message as a separate e-mail) are given below. > > 1. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to > > ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains (in the body of the message) the command > > unsubscribe > > and no additional text. > > 2. How to subscribe. Whatever you just did worked, or you'd > not be getting this message. But for future reference (for instance, > if your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you > want to resubscribe), just send the command "subscribe" to > ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com. > > 3. How to change to mail mode (each posting is sent to you as a > separate e-mail). There are two steps. First, send the command > "unsubscribe" to ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue digest > mode. Second, send the command "subscribe" to > ILTAZEWE-L-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving individual messages. > > 4. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode. > All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe > when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them > to start again, simply subscribe again. > > 5. If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing > list receives it, just send it to ILTAZEWE-L@rootsweb.com. It > will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode. > You don't need to send it explicitly to both. > > For your verification, a transcript of the original subscription > request is included below. > -- > > > >From cashby2587@lvcta.com Fri Jul 20 19:56:40 2001 > >Received: from newmail.rootsweb.com ([192.168.1.103]) > > by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6L1ueO12200 > > for <ILTAZEWE-D-request@lists2.rootsweb.com>; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:56:40 -0600 > >Received: from mail.lvcta.com (mail.lvcta.com [207.177.68.4]) > > by newmail.rootsweb.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6L1udv28902 > > for <ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com>; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:56:40 -0600 > >Received: from f4z2v2 [207.32.10.131] by mail.lvcta.com > > (SMTPD32-6.06) id A1911D1F00B8; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:57:37 -0500 > >Message-ID: <000601c11187$45cffbc0$830a20cf@f4z2v2> > >Reply-To: "carol ashby/rey gogel" <cashby2587@lvcta.com> > >From: "carol ashby/rey gogel" <cashby2587@lvcta.com> > >To: <ILTAZEWE-D-request@rootsweb.com> > >Subject: subscribe > >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:48:41 -0500 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > >X-Priority: 3 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 > >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 > > > > > >subscribe > > >

1840 Census of Revolutionary War Pensioners for Illinois: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840il_al.html Main page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/index.html Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com

Dianne, I check Tazewell Co IL Cemeteries, Fondulac and Hittle Townships, Vol 3 (published 1981) and found no listing for Alexander and/or Anna HARPER. Susan McGeesGirl@aol.com wrote: > Hi : Im hoping to find someone willing to do cemetery book look-ups?Im > looking for Alexander Harper buried at Fon-du-lac cemetery and his wife Anna > E Harper may also be there

1830 Peoria & Putnam County http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/il/peoria/1830/ Abstracted by John C. Jacoby; Second Transcriber Candace Horton 1850 Tazewell County (Partial) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/il/tazewell/1850/ Abstracted by Mary Bradley; Second Transcriber Needed

My John andrew McCalla was born 5 Oct 1840 Eagle creek OH, came to Tazewell co. with his mothers family when he was 11 (1851) was there for two yrs and the family moved to LaSalle co. Any thing in regards to this family will be appreciated. Norrita from Idaho ===== Norrita in idaho Researching MALM,McCALLA ANDERSON,GUSTAFSON,NEWMAN __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Are there any other cemeteries in the area? ----- Original Message ----- From: <Histree60@aol.com> To: <acevedo@ourtownusa.net> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [ILTAZEWE] Lakeside Cem. > Hi Deb, > > I saw your posting on the Tazewell message board. I have a copy of the Pekin > township cemetaries book and Lakeside is in it. I checked for John and > Elizabeth and they are not in there. If you need other lookups for Pekin, > let me know. > > Tammy Russell

Hi : Im hoping to find someone willing to do cemetery book look-ups?Im looking for Alexander Harper buried at Fon-du-lac cemetery and his wife Anna E Harper may also be there Thanks in Advance Dianne

Hi listers. I'm new to this list. I found a piece of paper that told of a lakeside cem. that my gggrandparents may be buried there John & Elizabeth MILLER They were born abt 1812 & 1814. Don't know when they died. Can anyone help. Thanks.

Here's a web page with a list of abbreviations that might be found on old gravestones: http://olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/grave_symbols.shtml Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com

Looking for any information about the Barnard or Chaffer families from the many Tazewell County resources that they have been written up in. My ggg-grandfather Abraham Chaffer owned a large amount of farm land in the Deer Creek area. He also owned the first store there and the post office. He was a town supervisor in 1867-68. Abraham's eldest child Rachel married Robert Barnard in 1852, they were my gg-grandparents. Both Chaffer and Barnard families are buried at Glendale Cemetery. If one of the member of this list lives close to the cemetery and is willing to take pictures of the grave I would be very grateful to them. I appreciate any help that can be given to me. Hazel ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Would anyone happen to have any information on Araham Chaffer's first wife. Abraham bought 80 acres of land in Tazewell COunty, Deer Creek, on 11/24/1836. He opened the first store there and was also appointed Postmaster. His first wife died after 1844 and before 1847. He had four children by his first wife, Rachel, Abraham, John and Frederick. In 1847 he remarried to Sarah Huxtable. Hopefully there is some type of record listing who Abraham's first wife was. Thank you very much for any help that you can give to my endless searching. Hazel ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.