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The "Surnames" button on the left leads to a gedcom file that has been published to html.

The surname list below is to other sites, maintained by descendants in that line. For some surnames there is more than one site, so the surname is listed and linked more than once.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2004  

Added obituaries for Bruce E. Sayers and Harold E. Meyer to death records. To see these additions, click on Death Records above, then on Obituary Bruce E. Sayers or Obituary Harold E. Meyer.

posted by Susan | 7:54 PM


Sunday, March 21, 2004  

Added 1900 and 1910 Illinois census data for John and Dennis McMullen, brothers of Annie McMullen Allensten. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, then McMullen Text.

posted by Susan | 2:14 PM


Thursday, March 18, 2004  

Added 1900, 1910 and 1920 Illinois census data for Bernard and Jane [McMullen] McQuillan. Jane was the sister of Annie McMullen, wife of Ferdinand Allensten. To see this addition, click on Census Records above, then McQuillan Text.

posted by Susan | 8:33 AM


Wednesday, March 17, 2004  

Added the obituary of Maryann Allensten Banke. To see this addition, click on Death Records above, and then Maryann Allensten Banke Obit.

posted by Susan | 9:48 AM


Monday, March 15, 2004  

Added 1880 Missouri census data for John Meyer, and Illinois census data for Edward Meyer, sons of John and Angela Meyer. Added 1900 census data for Charles and Rosa Rothgeb and Angela Meyer in Quincy. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, and then Meyer Text or Rothgeb Text.

Added a site search feature on the index page of the site, which allows the entire site to be searched, and also allows subsearches of the search results. See the upper right quadrant of this page, for this feature.

posted by Susan | 7:32 PM
 

Added quite a lot of Borstadt census data from census years 1860 through 1920, in Illinois, Colorado, California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. To see these additions, click on Census Records above, and then Borstadt Text. Updated the Family Histories pages, and added the LeGrand Family History, which is in PDF format. To see this addition, click on Family Histories above, then LeGrand Family History. It's a 2MB PDF file, so might take awhile to load on slower systems.

posted by Susan | 5:31 AM


Saturday, March 13, 2004  

Added numerous obituaries and some death records to the Death Records section. Split the Death Records page into two pages, to be more manageable. Most of the obituaries are from the Chicago Tribune, and are for ancestors who lived in the Chicago area, and who relate to the John Francis "Frank" and Ellen Hinchey Meyer line. To see the additions, ciick on Death Records above.

posted by Susan | 7:15 PM
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