My wife and I explored Southern Illinois this weekend - stopping at several of the hiking paths and other sites along the Shawnee Hills Wine...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcrib...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Below I have transcribed the three...

The Belleville News-Democrat reported on Monday that the city of O'Fallon, Illinois has put their city records online. O'FALLON -- ...

CURRENT INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND HERE One of the problems with the blog-format is that one finds oneself rewriting old posts with updated ...

Last Friday I posted the classic poem by Longfellow, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport . I commented that Longfellow's concern for a '...

The theme for the 71st Carnival of Genealogy is: Local History As genealogists, we are used to tracing our ancestors and the history of the ...

I mentioned a few weeks ago my issue with the birth record of Clifford Cruvant in Cook County (Chicago) Illinois. The name in the index di...

FamilySearch has been indexing their images for the Cook County Birth Reports (1878-1922) (Currently input through 1915) Below is the Birt...

In March I mentioned the American Bottom Riverweb site, which contains a large digital archive of artifacts related to the American Bottom ...