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Find Volunteers in Illinois counties, starting with:

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Find Volunteers in Illinois counties, starting with:
[ A thru C ]      [ D thru J ]      [ K thru L ]      [ M thru P ]      [ Q thru Z ]

ILLINOIS Volunteers

The Volunteer table below provides a list of Illinois5 volunteers who will provide research assistance in the specified counties.

County Volunteer's Name Volunteer Services
Rock Island Ken and Bev Bonnen OBIT lookups for Rock Island Co., IL

Will take grave pictures ONLY for the cemeteries in Edgington; Zion Lutheran - Taylor Ridge; & IL City.

Sangamon Ron Hallberg Microfilm lookups of obituaries from collection of Illinois newspapers at Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. Request must include place of death and either date of death or date of obituary. Name of relevant newspaper helpful. The Library charges a fee for copies.
Sangamon Lori Little Still photos of tombstones and obituary lookups for Sangamon Co. from microfilm at Lincoln PUBLIC Library (NOT from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library).
Stephenson Cidney Engberg "In the Foot Prints of the Pioneers of Stephenson County, IL", published 1900, by the Stevenson Co. Genealogy Society. Book is indexed. I do not live in this county.
Vermillion Cidney Engberg Burials at Danville IL. Vermillion National Cemetery - MILITARY VETERANS ONLY 1899-1943. Marriage License Abstracts vols 1-6 1826-1899 info from marriage applications, has ages & parents names. Portrait and Biography of Vermilion County by Chapman bros. 1889 a county history book with index. , 1 to 2 surnames per request please.
Whiteside Denise McLoughlin Obituaries., Gravestone pictures. Have access to Tampico Tornado Newspapers, pub. 1876-1966. I will do look-ups for obits or misc. information contained in this newspaper. The TORNADO covered news in Tampico, Deer Grove, & Prophetstown/Leon in Whiteside county and Yorktown & Thomas in Bureau County. I Also have website that has already transcribed many obits/bios/headstone photos in area: www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com, We have an on-going cemetery project which gives index of cemetery, headstone photo, obit & other info such as family photos, bios, etc. It is an on-going project. Please contact me for specific name if you do not find it already transcribed. Check the TABLE OF CONTENTS for all the cemeteries we include for parts of Whiteside & Bureau Counties. www.tampicohistoricalsociety.com
Winnebago Cidney Engberg Pioneers of Winnebago and Boone Co.'s before 1841. Names indexed.

Note: I do not live in these counties. No obit. lookups.

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