This week we highlight another article from our Family Histories Collection from RICIGS member, Kathy Elliott. Kathy used her ancestor’s Civil War service as a Union patriot to apply to the National Daughters of the Union. Read about the information Kathy found in her research on Sylvester Butler and his […]
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If your ancestors lived in Rock Island County between about 1850 and 1906 the Genealogical Abstracts for Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers is a great place to find information about their lives. In the early 1970’s, Janet K. Pease, a charter member the Rock Island County Illinois Genealogical Society, realized […]
Check out the ‘Genealogy Sources for Rock Island County’ page on our website! It should be your number one stop for information in your family history research! It provides general information on county research. Topics include birth record indexes, marriage record indexes, death related indexes, cemeteries, county histories, directories and […]
By Linda Bergren Polich We have all been taught in research classes to read all information on documents about our ancestors. Sometimes, it is easier to transcribe this data – that forces us to read every word. But all too many times, when you find a naturalization record, land record, […]
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.