Volume 1 is now available for purchase in the RICIGS Shop Free to members (login required) Rock Island County Illinois Genealogical Society Member Janet Pease started abstracting early Rock Island County newspapers in 1973. Her goal was to make items of interest to genealogists easier to find. What treasures can […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
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This animated map shows the evolution of the United Sates from the Thirteen Colonies to its current form. Helps you understand that if your ancestors lived in today’s Illinois in 1804, they really lived in Indiana Territory.
The Port Byron Globe, October 1890-1893 The Port Byron GLOBE was in publication before 1890, but this volume indexes the earliest known copies of that newspaper. The GLOBE regularly carried items from other communities in the upper end of Rock Island County in addition to items from Sharon in Whiteside […]
By Linda Bergren Polich As we start another new year, and a new decade, it’s a good time to start some new habits or improve on our current ones. Let’s make a few genealogy resolutions together. Review the information you have in your files to be sure each fact has […]
Proceed with caution when using DNA as part of a genealogical conclusion Consider tree completeness When using DNA evidence in evaluating how you are related to an individual, the normal process is to use family trees to find a common ancestor. A study at Ancestry found that only 30% of […]