A little over a month ago I asked the list for any info on Taylorville, which I thought was in PA. Just this week I found out that it is actually in Illinois. My grandfather's cousin, Felice BONI, worked as a miner in Scranton and moved to Riverton, Illinois, around 1910. I found this info at http://www.calascio.com/frat1.htm, which is a page listing Italian men from Riverton who applied to the Foresters of America. If you lost an Italian between 1906 and 1917, you should check it out. :) The Ellis Island site is where I read that he lived in Taylorville in 1912, but the page was so blurry that I didn't see the state was not 'PA', but 'IL.' So, even if you *think* you know the area where your family lived, if you are having trouble locating them, look somewhere else! If you have lost an ancestor who worked as a miner, you might want to give the central Illinois area a search. There were quite a few coal mines in the area. Besides the rootsweb message boards and lists for the state, there are also some records online at http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradaddr.html Thanks, Richard, for your help with this search. Terri =================== Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 06:21:39 -0400 From: "Richard M. Reese" <richreese@fast.net> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Wayndotte St., Taylorsville My street atlas shows that there is currently no Wyandotte street in Taylor. There is a Taylorville in Schuylkill Co., near (s.w. of) Ashland, and two Tayllorsville, PA's - the first on the Delaware River in Bucks Co. near Washington's Crossing, and the second just n.e. of Indiana, PA. None of these have a Wyandotte street either. As for Wyandotte Ave. / St. There is currently one in Berwick, North Catasaqua (Allentown) and Bethlehem, PA. However somehow the street name rings a bell, if I figure out where it may have been, I'll let you know. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/