This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zh.2ADE/1924.1 Message Board Post: Here are two websites that may be of help. WHITESIDE CO IL ... http://www.iltrails.org/whiteside/ AND http://www.elca.org/os/archives/regsyn.html ELCA Home | ELCA Library | Directories |Search 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60007 (847) 690-9410 | archives@elca.org REGION 5 In addition to holding material from the districts and synods of The American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America, it is also the main repository for the former Iowa Synod, a church body that existed from 1854-1930. Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan: The Rev. Robert C. Wiederaenders ELCA Region 5 Archives 333 Wartburg Place Dubuque, IA 52003-7797 (563) 589-0320 E-mail: bwiederaenders@wartburgseminary.edu Denise TAMPICO HISTORICAL SOCIETY www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com