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Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 23 – Rock Island Evening ARGUS, 1869 and The Rock Island and Moline DAILY UNION, 1869

NEW for July 2020
Volume 23 is available Free to members (login required) and is also available for purchase in the RICIGS Shop.

Abstracts in this volume include items of genealogical interest. Only some of the lists of letters at the Moline and Rock Island post offices have been included. 311 p.

The Rock Island Evening Argus, November 15, 1869
The rural dean of Harstock, Somersetshire, England has written to an Episcopal clergyman in Davenport, Iowa seeking information on a Thomas Lock, who has been away for 16 years and is supposed to be in Iowa. His wife is still in England and has raised their son and two daughters.

You can find an index of the volume here

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