Updates to Mercer County, Illinois Web Site on Rootsweb

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A word of warning: We have received (kind) comments about missing information in our files. We have only researched our own families in depth. For others we are including genealogy as we find it in the readily available county records - WE ARE NOT DOING IN-DEPTH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH. We hope to provide hints to researchers about where to look for the primary records they need to complete their families' genealogies. Even our history research has not carried as far as 1900 yet for many families. Do keep those comments coming however - hearing from real relatives and knowing that they have visited the pages is what makes it fun and worthwhile.

To the many kind people who have submitted their family information with permission to use it - I am roughly two years behind in postings but it will get there!
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Updates

822/2008 We are working on a major update to the Pullen page.
8/21/2008 Added Delphey information to Miscellaneous Families
8/3/2008 Moved the McGreer family information from Miscellaneous Families to a new McGreer family page.
7/10/2008 Started a page for the Leech Cemetery in Eliza Township - will work on this from time to time - currently complete for the Pomroy family.
7/9/2008 Added brief notes about the Bergen/Bergin family to Miscellaneous Families
6/21/2008 We are beginning work on a Benedict Page.
6/11/2008 We are beginning work on a Perry page.
6/8/2008 Added Foreman Moore family to the Moore page.
5/5/2008 Added Belcher to Miscellaneous Families.
4/10/2008 We have started a Vanatta page.
3/30/2008 We have started a Roberts page and have two families up.
3/26/2008 Have added a Jenkins page.
3/23/2008 Have added a good deal of information to the new Shields page.
3/18/2008 Added a Lytle page.
3/16/2008 Added more information to the William Pullen family.
3/14/2008 Added information on the Whitacre family on the Miscellaneous Families Page.
3/10/2008 Added information to the William Pullen family on the Pullen page.
3/1/2008 Added Milligan families to the Millikan page as Millikan is sometimes spelled as Milligan (though we don't think the Millikans and Milligans of Mercer County are necessarily related.
2/29/2008 Added Lingafelter to the Miscellaneous Families Page. We are hoping to plunge into the Shields page, a connection of the Lingafelters.
2/26/2008 Added information on the burial of Dora Elizabeth Fuller to the Fuller page.
2/25/2008 Added Charles Fred Lytle, physician, and his father George Lytle, druggist, to the Medicine page. We will be adding a family page later.
2/24/2008 Added the John Maddox family to the Miscellaneous Families Page.
2/14/2008 Added a link about Illinois High Schools that includes several in Mercer County at the bottom of the Schools page, thanks to Lois Retherford.
1/26/2008 Added 1900 census information for John and Margaret Powers Welch to the Welch page.
12/1/2007 Lois Retherford kindly sent us three articles from the Aledo Weekly Record and they are linked as a pdf file on the Artz Cemetery Page.
11/24/2007 Added Peniel and Old Brick Cemetery photos to the Mercer County Cemeteries page, courtesy Lois Retherford.
10/31/2007 We have started a page for the Beverlin family.
10/20/2007 Added a brief explanation of the meaning of "Grand Army of the Republic" to the History Part 5 page.
10/15/2007 Added the Charbonneau family of Huron Island to the Miscellaneous Families page. Check this out if you happen to know of a source for old maps of Huron Island.
10/14/2007 Added the Bigelow Family to the Maine Families Page.
10/13/2007 Added information to the Fish family on the Maine Families Page. Added to the Moore Family Page.
9/18/2007 Added a page for the Jay Family. They mainly lived in Keithsburg and Abington Township but there are burials in New Boston Cemetery.
8/20/2007 Added a page for the Bell Family of New Boston. Cousin Jill visited New Boston in 2006 and we have added two of her photos at the bottom of the home page.
7/21/2007 Updated the Sabin page with new information on Charles and Eliza Martin Sabin.
6/16/2007 Did a cosmetic update to the Mercer County Cemeteries page and added many more Findagrave links.
6/9/2007 Added a Bear Family Page.
5/30/2007 Added a Brown Family Page.
5/28/2007 Added a Kirlin Family Page.
5/2/2007 Added a Beach Family Page.
4/27/2007 Added a Gray Family Page.
4/17/2007 Added new information and made some corrections to the Shoemaker page.
3/23/2007 Added a few notes to the Shoemaker part of the Glancey Cemetery based on DAR records.
3/17/2007 Updated the Shoemaker Page based on new information from a researcher and from census records.
3/14/2007 People have sent us many wonderful things over the years and now that we have the site moved to Rootsweb from time to time we will be adding some of those things. Today we added a poem by Walter Hodson on the Battle of Champion Hill Mississippi sent to us by Don Finch.
3/2/2007 Added several updates to the Shoeamker Page furnished by descendants.
2/16/2007 The W names have been moved over (there are a couple of the Willits pages we will finish this weekend). This finishes the transfer!
2/12/2006 The S, T, and V names have been moved over.
2/6/2006 The O, P, R names have been moved over.
1/31/2006 The M and N names have been moved over.
1/29/2006 The H, K, and L names have been moved over.
1/26/2007 The F and G names have been moved over.
1/24/2007 The D and E names have been moved over.
1/19/2007 The C names have been moved over - see the Surnames Page.
1/14/2007 The balance of the B Names have been moved over - see the Surnames Page.
1/13/2007 Over the past few days we have moved over Cemetery pages, Civil War pages, Resources pages, Iowa Connections, and B Names through Beeson. Go to the Home Page and the Surnames page for access.
12/30/2006 Moved over the gold fever and Poorhouse pages.
12/27/2006 Moved over the Schools Page.
12/25/2006 Added a Part 6 page and moved over the Part 4 page.
12/22/2006 Moved over the History Part 2 and Part 3 pages.
12/17/2006 Moved over the Anderson Page. Moved over the Albee/Allbee Page. Moved over the Sylvanus Atwater Page. This completes the "A"s that we have in Mercer County. Moved over the Part 1 History of Mercer County and the New Boston Ferry Page.
12/16/2006 Moved over the Maine Families Page. Moved over the Alyea Family page.
12/14/2006 Moved over the Adams Page.
12/12/2006 Updated and moved over the Sanders Page.
12/9/2006 Moved over the Lawrence/Larrance Page
12/8/2006 Moved over the Commons Families Page.
11/29/2006 Moved over the Mercer County Beard Families that connect to our Woodward Families.
10/10/2006 Moved over the Mercer County Cemetery Maps and linked them to the home page. This was probably one of the most difficult pages for one rather inexperienced in the html language so it was an experiment to see if it could be done (the result wasn't too bad!). Yahoo is still totally unresponsive as far as customer service and we have set a goal to have everything moved by July of 2007 so will have to work on it from time to time. 9/7/2006 Added early census records for the Essley family to document their movements.
9/4/2006 Added information on Josiah W. Essley, grandson of John Essley to the Essley page.
9/2/2006 Added information on William Lemon Essley, grandson of John Essley to the Essley page.
9/1/2006 We are beginning to make some sense out of the Essley data and nondata and have added to the Essley page.
8/21/2006 Updated the Welch Family page with information on John and Bridgett Kane Welch.
8/19/2006 We have started an Essley page. This will be a long (and somewhat painful) process to complete but whenever we work on the page we will post a note here.
5/19/2006 Moved the Welch Family Page to this site.
5/18/2006 Moved the Mercer County Woodward Families Page to this site.
5/14/2006 Moved the Honeyman Family Page to this site.
5/6/2006 Moved the Long Families page to this site.
9/22/2005 Created a new Johnson page on this site.
9/17/2005 Moved the updated Davis page from the Yahoo site.
9/16/2005: Moved the updated Nevius page from the Yahoo site. Other pages have been moved here - those linked on the Surnames page.