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Comment by Kim Eisman on August 21, 2009 at 4:15pm: I am researching the following surnames from White County: MCDANIEL, MCDONALD, COZART, TUCKER, UTLEY, DARLING and others.

Would love to share info

Comment by Mildred Mayfield on August 12, 2009 at 5:11pm: I am researching Asbery B Thornhill b:22 Jul 1824 Tennessee and Mary Abbott b:5 Feb 1825 Illinois who married 13 Jan 1848 in Adams Co., Illinois. They went from Illinois to Kansas to Missouri to Oklahoma.

Comment by Rosemary Taylor on August 10, 2009 at 11:33am: I research the descendants of Joshua Reagan, born c.1804 Sevier Co., Tennessee; died 1874, Macoupin Co., Illinois. He married Jane Huskey. I descend from their son James M. Reagan, who married Susan J. Sullivan. They migrated to Missouri

Comment by louise duncalf on August 10, 2009 at 11:19am: im also in a group for swedish ancestry. a large group of swedish and german settled in rock island county illinois. i posted on that group there is a college in rock island called augustana lutheran college. it has a research center devoted primarily to swedish immigration history. its called swenson immigration research center. in rock island and area there a lot of churchs with german and swedish in the title. they went to that area for jobs on railroad and john deere. they started going in that area 1841 but highest in 1860's.

Comment by Vera Moore on August 10, 2009 at 11:01am: Hello all,

I am researching the family of Johannes TRAUTMANN b. 1827 and Katharina Margaretha 1829 of Ober-Kainsbach, Reichelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany.
Their children: Margaretha, Adam, Peter and Elisabeth all born Ober-Kainsbach.
Family arrived at NY on 11 Mar. 1872. They arrived also with a Conrad WEBBER who shows up in the household of the widowed "Catherine" Trautmann in the 1880 census of Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinios. Johannes d. bet. 1872-1880. I am descended from Peter who married Juliene FEICK abt. 1889, dau. of Georg Heinrich FEICK and Anna Catharine MADE/N of Wersau, Odenwald, Hessen-Darmstadt.
Margaretha m. Johann Leonhard RIPPER 22 Jan. 1880 Tazewell County, ILL
Elisabetha m. Charles Carl HEILMANN 19 Aug. 1886 Tazewell County. They were enumerated in Tazewell County for 1900, 1910 and 1920.
Adam m. Helena SCHREBE

Peter and family moved first to Columbia Twp., Knox County, NE and finally to McLean County, ND

I would like to hear from others researching the descendants of Johannes TRAUTMANN.

Comment by Rosemary Taylor on August 9, 2009 at 5:36pm: Hello. I am researching Wilkinson and Taylor in Pike and Adams Counties before the Civil War. I am also interested in the surname Pigg before 1900.

Comment by Carol Weldon on August 8, 2009 at 10:56am: These are the surnames and counties of my main Illinois lines
Adams Co. - ALLEN, CRUTTENDEN, LEWIS
Coles Co. - BENCE
Cook Co. - IRVING
DeWitt Co. - MORRIS, WARD, WELDON
Edgar Co. - MAYNARD
Grundy Co. - ELDRED
McLean Co. - WELDON
Morgan Co. - ALLEN
Moultrie Co. - BENCE, DECKER, MAYNARD
Shelby Co. - BENCE, DECKER, MAYNARD

Comment by donna l nesbit on August 7, 2009 at 6:22pm: I am looking for any information on rhymers in Union and Alexander co. in
Illinois, and originating from North Carolina. Names of interest are Henry
Rymer and James K Rymer. Name was later changed to Rhymer.

Comment by Gerry Sawyer on August 6, 2009 at 10:01pm: I am researching the following surnames: primarily Simpson, and associated names of Hunsaker, Veach, Whiteside, Murrie and Kuykendall, all of whom lived in either Adams or Johnson county, IL from the early 1800's onward. My best known ancestor is William Simpson who came from Kentucky in about 1805 when IL still was a territory and is credited with being the first white settler family in southern Johnson co. around present day Vienna. I believe Simpson township & Simpson Hill were named for this family and they were among the founders of the Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church in that area. William and other family members are buried in the Double Bridges cemetery. Simpsons intermarried with all the families previously mentioned. Are there other Simpson researchers in this group? G. Sawyer

Comment by William S Dean on July 31, 2009 at 7:39pm: Researching surnames: DEAN, BROWN, FOWLER, HARMON, AND GANT