Monthly Archives: May 2020

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Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 21 – The Rock Island Evening Argus, 1868 and The Rock Island Daily Union, 1868

NEW for May 2020 Volume 21 is available Free to members (login required) and is also available for purchase in the RICIGS Shop.  This volume includes abstracts of items of genealogical interest from all existing newspapers from Rock Island County for the year 1868. The newspapers frequently included news from […]

Conference Keeper – Online Genealogy Events Calendar

Want to get notified about free webinars and online classes from MyHeritage, Legacy Family Tree Webinars and more for free? Follow the posts and calendar at Conference Keeper (https://conferencekeeper.org). This is a FREE resource that lists a variety of upcoming genealogy events, both online and in-person. The mission of ConferenceKeeper is to curate […]

Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 20 – The Rock Island Argus – 1867; The Rock Island Daily Union – 1867; The Rock Island and Moline Daily Union – 1867

NEW for May 2020Volume 20 is available Free to members (login required) and is also available for purchase in the RICIGS Shop. In this volume RICIGS member Janet Pease abstracted all existing newspapers for Rock Island County for the year of 1867. Newspapers frequently published lists of letters being held […]

Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 6 – The Moline Daily Dispatch, 1895

Volume 6 is now available for purchase in our RICIGS Shop and is also free to members (login required) January issues of this paper for 1895 are missing. Content includes birth, wedding, and death announcements as well as obituaries, marriages, baptisms, and items disclosing the contents of recently probated wills. […]