This coming Saturday, Duane Funk will be the speaker at the Illinois Interest meeting. He will be presenting a program on Illinois Cemeteries and, as always, when Duane speaks, we all learn! The group meets in the GFO Library between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. On the second Saturday of all months (except Dec, Jun, and July). (Putting that on your calendar now will ensure that you don¹t miss a meeting.) Duane will present some ways to be successful with sites such as GenWeb (for each county), and Find A Grave (for the whole state). Some times your information is more detailed than other times. Both sites can help you find someone, even if you know very little about where they might be buried. He will present some other sites too‹ones that I should learn more about too‹that approach things from a different angle than either of the above. With good luck you will find an ancestor¹s grave and even have a photo of it for your files. You may have added information you didn¹t know you could find. I had no real idea when Grandma Mary Jane died other than between the last sighting in New Jersey and Grandpa¹s arrival in Illinois with Step-Grandma Ann Elizabeth. I know that everyone who attends will learn something new about searching the cemeteries in Illinois...or even another state. You can take the information from this class and use it in many other places. So if you are wanting to improve your cemetery searching skills, just join the group!