I'm having the same luck finding my great-grandparents. Sorry that I can't help. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Daniel Knight <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 11:45 AM Subject: [ILWILL-L] Looking for Barrs, 1960s to present >Hello, i'm trying to determine what happened to my relatives James Worrell >Barr and wife Louisa Britt Barr. They were living in Joliet, IL, by c. 1950 >and still there in 1963. A cousin thinks Louisa died in Arizona about 1968, >but I can find no record of it. Are there Joliet city directories I could >get anyone to check? Is there a cemetery where they would likely be buried? > I have a death date (not sure of the source) for Louisa; the cousin said >she died in Arizona, but the folks in Arizona could find no record of it. >Perhaps since she had lived in Joliet for so long, there was an obituary >there? > >Louisa Britt Barr, daughter of Joseph E. Britt SR (d. 1958) and first wife >Zennie McGee Britt (d. 1912), was born in Georgia in 1906. I have record of >her in Joliet from obituaries in 1954, 1958, and 1963, and from a deed in >1958/59. Her brother died childless, and her father's obituary mentions >several grandkids (no names), so I presume she must have had children. > >I live in Georgia and so am quite a distance away. Can anyone suggest >sources I could try or people I could contact? Most on-line records seem to >be pre-1900, so I'm having a hard time finding these people (no luck with >SSDI or switchboard). > >Thank-you for any help or suggestions, >Sincerely, >Danny Knight, >LaGrange, GA > >