The Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly does a better than average job of publishing more than record transcriptions. In the Winter 2008 issue editor Oriene Morrow Springstroh organizes them under the heading of "Telling Our Stories." "Don't be discouraged if your children or grandchildren aren't interested in what you have to say right now," she advises. "There are others to follow in the coming generations who wil cherish your words and be glad to meet you through the work you have done for them. They will also wish you had written more." In the issue:
"Coffee Time," by Gary K. Hargis
"Olivia's Story," by Jane Gwynn Haldeman
"James Miller Morrow of DuPage County, Illinois -- In His Own Words"
"Faces from the Past -- Identifying Photos with Marge Rice"
"How to Start a Writing Group for Your Society," by Oriene Morrow Springstroh
*"Using School Record Books," by Robert W. Frenz, with a focus on McHenry County
"Ask the Retoucher!" by Eric Curtis M. Basir
"Family Bible Collection," comp. Kristy Lawrie Gravlin
* footnoted.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Illinois' Winter 2008 Quarterly
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Northeastern Illinois county histories...
...digitized by Illinois Harvest recently. These are what we now call the "collar counties" of Chicago:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois... (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890). 771 pages.
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County, Illinois... (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1900). 628 pages.
History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Aurora: Knickerbocker & Hodder, 1877), by Edmund Warne Hicks. 438 pages. Any ancestors of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in here?
History of Kane County, Ill., Volumes 1 and 2, by R. Waite Joslyn (Chicago: The Pioneer Pub. Co., 1908).
History of McHenry County, Ill., Volumes 1 and 2 (Chicago: Munsell Pub. Co., 1922).
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