I don't know whether anyone else has discovered what happened to the city of Plainfield in the 1920 census on line, but I have found it. After sending messages to Ancestry that they did not have Plainfield in the census, I now find it in Plainfield Township, in Joliet City, ED # 200 and #201. Of course Joliet is not included at all, as I think Joliet is probably in Joliet township, but at least Plainfield is there and searchable. Mildred in Lake Geneva, WI

searching for my relatives in will county am willing to share what information that i have richard harrigan 780 water street hobart indiana 46342 219 712 6108

Thanks Sheila -- I shall call them tomorrow. Lorraine At 08:49 PM 4/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Lorraine: I don't find a listing for the school. The address for the St >Cyril Convent is 701 Landau Ave., Joliet, Il. 60432. Phone 815 - 723-0061. >Hope this helps. Sheila S-K

Lorraine: I don't find a listing for the school. The address for the St Cyril Convent is 701 Landau Ave., Joliet, Il. 60432. Phone 815 - 723-0061. Hope this helps. Sheila S-K Lorraine Moore wrote: > I need to write to the Nuns who are operating the school, if it is still > open. If not, I guess I will have to write to the Pastor at the Church. > > Thanks much > Lorraine > Baton Rouge, LA > > ==== ILWILL Mailing List ==== > To contact the listowner, send mail to xWillCo@yahoo.com > Will Co, IL website address is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwill/

I need to write to the Nuns who are operating the school, if it is still open. If not, I guess I will have to write to the Pastor at the Church. Thanks much Lorraine Baton Rouge, LA

zavada" <zavada@uti.com> wrote "For Bill Patterson, According to the charts done by Patricia Brucki up on ancestry family trees(free search)" Pat Brucki is my sister, most of the info, if not all is what I have given her. I am trying to fill in the gaps for the time the family moved from Saratoga TWP to Spring Valley, Bill

Hi list! Does anyone know of Debi Youskevitch in Coal City, IL. Im trying to contact her and lost her email address. If you would please ask her to contact me thru my address. THX Mike Swartz AZ Bohunkjoe@aol.com

For Bill Patterson, According to the charts done by Patricia Brucki up on ancestry family trees(free search) Robert Patterson wife Elizabeth Patterson died in Spring Valley,Bureau County,IL the followiong children were born in Saratoga township,Grundy county Mary 1869,John 1878,Elizabeth 1879,George T.1882,William 1884,Thomas 1886. She lists the other siblings you mentioned also. You should be checking the grundy county death index-there is a link from the grundy county genweb to this index. You should also be checking in Burea County. Have you checked the illinois state wide marriage index? Will county website under resources has a link to Illinois state archives which in turn will link to marriages,etc. Braidwood,Reed twp will county suggests possibly a coal miner? Braidwood sits on the county line between will and grundy. You spit in Braidwood and you hit Coal City and Diamond in Grundy county. Hope this helps Kathy

Hello listers: I am researching Christine PATTERSON and her parents and siblings. Christine was born in Saratoga Township, Grundy County, Illinois to Robert and Elizabeth Patterson. I have an 1880 federal census that have them on School Street in Braidwood, Willl County, Illinois. Christine, along with her siblings Hugh, Mary, Janet and Agnes were in School. This is not much information, if you can point me in a direction. School records, City directory, Phone directory, Marriage records, death index. Etc. I would appreciate any help Thanks in advance Bill Patterson Ohio

For those of you in the Chicago area, The Newberry Library Friends of Genealogy presents: Friends of Genealogy Fourth Annual Workshop, Beyond the Courthouse Door Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Our speaker this year will be Michael John Neill. Mr. Neill is an experienced courthouse, library, and archive researcher who has been doing genealogical research for nearly twenty years. He is currently an instructor at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois, and is on the staff of the Genealogical Institute of Mid America. This year's Keynote Speaker is Tony Hoskins, Head of Genealogy, History, and Archives at the Sonoma County Library (Santa Rosa, CA). He served many years at the Newberry Library as Local and Family History Reference Librarian. He will speak about how genealogy impacted the life of Barbara Stenger Burditt, in whose memory this event is sponsored. Workshop Schedule 7:30 - Doors Open 8:00 - 8:30 - Registration 8:30 - 8:45 - Welcome 8:45 - 9:45 - Researching the Entire Family 10:00 - 11:00 - An Introduction to the Court House 11:00 - 11:45 - Keynote Speaker, Tony Hoskins 11:45 - 12:45 - Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 - Land Records 2:00 - 3:00 - Court Records Location The Newberry Library 60 West Walton Chicago, IL 60610 312.943.9090 www.newberry.org Admission to all four lectures, a detailed syllabus, and a box lunch is $60 ($45 for members of the Friends of Genealogy). Reservations are required and can be made by calling (312) 255-3510. Reduced Rate Parking: Available at the Chestnut Street Garage located at 100 West Chestnut. The rate is $6 for up to 7 hours and $8 for up to 9 hours. Space is limited, and tickets must be validated at the Newberry Library kiosk.

Deb, I checked the genealogy.com 1900 census and didn't find any Joseph Foster in either of those townships. In Wilton Twp, I did find the following - Foster, Frank J. b Nov 1822 Germany, widow; he was living alone. Does this fit? If not, if you could give a bit more information (such as date and location of birth, possible other first names), I would check a bit further. Ginny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Historian Gal" <familyleaf@hotmail.com> To: <ILWILL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: [ILWILL] 1900 Foster-Lookup > Hi > Does anyone have access to the 1900 Will Co census? If so can someone please > look up Joseph Foster. Wilton. Wilmington. Wife Amelia. Thank you > Deb > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > ==== ILWILL Mailing List ==== > To contact the listowner, send mail to xWillCo@yahoo.com > Will Co, IL website address is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwill/ > >

Hi Does anyone have access to the 1900 Will Co census? If so can someone please look up Joseph Foster. Wilton. Wilmington. Wife Amelia. Thank you Deb _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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The Lockport Area Genealogical & Historical Society presents Brother Joseph F. Martin speaking on "Tips and Tricks for Genealogy Research" on Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Gladys Fox Museum, 9th & Washington Streets, Lockport, IL. The program will highlight resources and techniques for beginners in family history research. Attention will focus on archives and libraries in Illinois and on internet resources. Joseph F. Martin is a De La Salle Christian Brother at Lewis University. Author, educator and public speaker, he has been researching his family history since 1970. His articles have appeared in Everton's Genealogical Helper and online with Ancestry Daily News. To reserve a seat for this presentation or for more information, please call Char Giardina at 815-353-5662.

It's not too early to start making plans to attend the Fox Valley Genealogical Society's Fall Conference. Details are: DATE: 28 Sep 2002 TIME: 8:00AM - 3:30PM PLACE: Grace United Methodist Church - Naperville, IL PRICE: $30 non-members, $25 members, $35 for all after 15 Sep 2002 Price includes continental breakfast and lunch Program: Unlocking Ancestral Mysteries with Henry Z Jones, Jr. Mr. Jones will present 4 sessions - When the Sources are Wrong, Tracing the Origins of Early 18th Century German Palatine Emigrants, Family Tradition: How to Separate Fact From Fantasy in Genealogical Research, and How PSYCHIC ROOTS Became an Unsolved Mystery. Mr. Jones has been actively climbing the family tree since he was 8 years old. He wrote his first book while still in high school. After graduating from Stanford University, he began a 20-year career as a character actor in motion picutres and television, appearing in many situation comedies and Walt Disney movies that still come back to haunt him today via cable TV. His years of work pursuing and documenting the German Palatines, immigrants to colonial America in the 18th century, have resulted in the following books: The Palatine Families of Ireland, Westerwald to America (co-written with Annette Burgert), The Palatine Families of New York-1710 (for which he received the Donald Lines Jacobus Award as Best Genealogical Book of the Year), More Palatine Families, Psychic Roots: Serendipity & Intuition in Genealogy, and his latest volume More Psychic Roots: Further Adventures in Serendipity & Intuition in Genealogy. Besides writing his books and innumerable articles, Hank is known for the lectures and seminars he gives around the country. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Genealogical Speakers' Guild and is a Trustee of the Association of Professional Genealogists. He recently received the Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society " in recognition of distinguished work in genealogy." In addition to the program, we will again have genealogical vendors and exhibits. Please see our web site at http://members.aol.com/fvgs1/index.html/ for more information and a registration form. You can also e-mail us with any questions at FVGS1@aol.com. We hope you will be able to join us for this very exciting genealogical conference.

MacListers & Friends, You are invited to attend: Walt "Ask the Experts: Chicago Resources" to be held on Thursday, October 10, at 6 p.m. at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Panelists will include speakers from the Circuit Court Archives, the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the Newberry Library. For more information, call (312) 255-3510. ________________________________________________________________ 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/web/.

Hello everyone, If you live in the Chicago metro area, you might be interested in the following program, presented by The Fox Valley Genealogical Society: TOPIC: Resources at the FHC SPEAKER: Deanna Spingola, Director - Naperville Family History Center DATE: Thursday 11 April 2002 PLACE: Naperville Municipal Center 400 S. Eagle Street Rooms B & C TIME: 7:30 PM We hope you will come to hear about all the new resources available to you at the Naperville FHC. Visitors are always welcome and there is no charge. You can park in the underground garage, only one set of doors to enter building, signs for rooms are just inside the doors. Hope to see you there! Question: E-mail me or check our website at http://members.aol.com/fvgs1/index.html/

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 15,750 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 as those are now online, the 44 South Counties will have details online beginning later this month, and the last 33 West Counties should have details online beginning this summer. When those new pages are up and running i'll send out an updated e-mail here and i'll post it on each Rootsweb county list as each county becomes available for research. The following web pages are enormous and each will take over four 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 15,750 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. For the 25 Northeast Counties, 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 5280 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. When the list is complete, as the first 17 of the 25 counties are, the following will be 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. The following 17 counties are completely done: Boone, Champaign, De Kalb, De Witt, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McLean, Putnam, Tazewell, Vermilion, and Woodford. The following eight counties are not yet completely done, each has all towns and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960, but lacks the next 30 years, and in the next month will be brought up to 1990: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, Will, and Winnebago. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dennisvcarter1/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Southeast 44 Counties</A> is in development and will begin later this month, with over 5261 listings. Will start off with all towns, cities and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960 and current information, up to 1990, will follow in the summer or fall. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dcarter956/myhomepage/heritage.html"> Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the 33 Western Counties</A> is in development and will begin later this summer, with over 5209 listings. Will start off with all towns, cities and townships known to be in existence from before 1818 up to 1960 and current information, up to 1990, will follow in the fall or winter. <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. Hard to use the keyword and eat popcorn so i'll have to close for now... btw i buy my popcorn already popped and butter flavored in jumbo 36 ounce bags so it saves time and isn't oily... do wish it wouldn't hide out in my beard! 8>:{}##] happy hunting dennis

Have you tried asking for a SURNAME search at the South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society? For a small fee you might get some great info. You can check it out at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ssghs/research.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon" <gordono@ameritech.net> To: <ILWILL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:42 AM Subject: [ILWILL] John B. GRAY & Christina F. BALL > I am researching my great-great-grandparents who met while John was > working on Christina's family's farm in Lockport. They married in 17 Oct > 1882, presumably in the area (but there is no record in the Illinois > marriage index). My great-grandmother Ann Elizabeth GRAY (later to > become SPEARS) was born in Lockport 13 Oct 1889 (but again, no record). > They appear in the 1900 census in Joliet Township, along with all six > children and Christina's brother. Family lore goes that Ann was born on > a farm in Lockport that is now part of Statesville prison. This is my > direct line and I'm interested in getting any kind of documentation I > can on this family. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be the > best places to try to get places and dates? > > Thank you, > Gordon > > > ==== ILWILL Mailing List ==== > To contact the listowner, send mail to xWillCo@yahoo.com > Will Co, IL website address is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwill/ > >

I am researching the following individuals who lived in/near Joliet, Will Co, IL - David MITCHELL b 1856 Wales was mar to Martha WILLIAMS b 1853 Wales; they immigrated about 1891 Their son, David MITCHELL b 1883 Wales married Rose JENSEN b. 1882 IL; they migrated to AL abt 1910 Rose JENSEN was the daughter of Niels Peter JENSEN b abt 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark and Caroline Wilhelmine SORENSEN b abt 1840 Copenhagen Anyone connected? Ginny Arveson