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| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander | Angela DiBlasi | I can do lookups in: 1820, 1840, 1855 State Census; 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 Federal Census; 1850 & 1860 Mortality Schedule; 1850 & 1860 Agricultural Census. |
| All | Cidney Engberg | Record of Military burial places in IL. up to WW2. All branches of service MUST HAVE THE COUNTY THEY ARE BURIED IN, no surname index. |
| All | Jerry | ILLINOIS MINING ACCIDENTS, fatal (1889-1948) and non-fatal (1889-1925); can provide date, usually miner’s age, residence, and reference source. Accident report reference source for major fatal accidents for all years before 1999 if year and mine name or city is known. |
| All | Kathy Ramirez | Online lookup of federal census records for the following years: 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910 and 1920. Please send me as much info as possible. |
| All | Shelli | I can give you a link to check marriages 1763-1900 and deaths pre 1916-1950 for most counties in IL., |
| Bond | Jim Pauk | Gravestone pictures |
| Boone | Richard Johnson | Gravestone pictures. |
| Boone | Cidney Engberg | Pioneers of Winnebago and Boone Co.'s before 1841. Names indexed. I do not live in these counties, no obit. lookups. |
| Brown | John Liggett | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Obituaries., Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. Will photograph in all cemeteries of Brown County and several in the adjoining counties |
| Carroll | Donna Baumann | I will look for closed wills/probate cases in Carroll Co only |
| Carroll | Pat Ely | Still photos of tombstones, driving directions to cemeteries, references to who is buried in most cemeteries. Obits from local papers. |
| Cass | Ginger Weston | 1934 Tiger Yearbook and the First Evangelical Lutheran Parish Records Book 1835-1900. I can scan photos from the yearbook if you find your surname listing which I posted in Illinois Roots. |
| Champaign | Sharon Hansen | Public Records lookups and copying. Take pictures of tombstones only in Champaign,IL |
| Christian | Sharon Tate | I have CD's for the county of Christian for the years of 1860, 1870, partial 1880, 1900 partial, 1910 and 1920. Do not live in the county now but will do lookups on these CD's. |
| Clark | Karen Vackert | I will do look-ups for 1870 and 1880 cenus. I will also do 1860 if township is known since I do not have this year indexed. |
| Clark | Eleanor Macke | I will do obituary lookups in the Marshall newspapers for people who lived in the eastern area of Clark County. |
| Clay | Linda Lents | Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Coles | Marybeth | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Obituaries., Gravestone pictures. I have a scanner and a digital camera, so there shouldn't be any kind of reimbursement needed. For actual cert. or licenses, I would just fill out the application and email the application to the person requesting the info and they can mail it in themselves with payment. |
| Cook | Barbara Rohde | I have a copy of the Echos yearbook from New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois for 1946. I will be happy to look up and send a copy of the photo in the yearbook. I do not live in Illinois anymore so please no other requests., |
| Cook | Kay Nolan | Will do address look-ups in 1947 Chicago telephone book. No telephone numbers. If more than 5 of one surname is found, I will need a first name. Results returned by email. Also, 1955 Chicago reverse directory. Give me an address, I'll tell you who lived there in '55. I can't look up names and cannot photocopy pages as the book is huge and fragile. City of Chicago only, no suburbs. |
| Cook | Shelli | I can check Cook Co. marriages 1930-1960, Cook Co. deaths 1908-1988, and Cook Co. births 1916-1935. I can give you a link for free Cook Co. marriage cert. 1871-1920., |
| Cook | William Wheeler | Digital photographs of headstones in cemeteries located in the NW suburbs of Cook County as well as headstones in the counties of Lake and McHenry. Please be sure to include name of cemetery, full name of individual and lot location. |
| Cook | Lauren | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Gravestone pictures. Specifically Oak Park, IL or surrounding area., |
| Cook | Bonnie Selig | I have a copy of the Cicero City Directory from 1940 and would be glad to look up names in it. I don't live in the county, so can't do anything else! |
| Cook | Amanda Price | Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. I will photograph tombstones in cemeteries in Cook County north of Chicago except for Rosehill cemetery. Please include name of cemetery, full name of person (including alternate spellings) and lot location. |
| Cook | Tami | I have a copy of the 1930-1931 Park Ridge/Des Plaines, IL phone directory. Please put in subject line "lookup" and in body of message put which town (Park Ridge or Des Plaines) and names. |
| Cook | Gene | Suburbs of NW Cook and Southern Lake Counties, NW of Chicago. I will gladly do email photos of gravesites, and their cemeteries. (Signage, etc.) YOU will need to know gravesite locations, etc. before I can go. I will make every attempt to help, but nowadays the staff of cemeteries offer little or no help to a stranger. Grave markers are typically not legible and many are covered over with grass. (Impossible to find!) I'm located at the 'edge' of Cook and McHenry counties. (Please map this if you are unfamiliar.) I am happy to photograph gravesites and cemeteries, etc. (I adhere to RAOGK's policy to reimburse volunteers.) |
| Cook | Lois Hanley | Obituary lookups from microfilms (need exact date of death, no month/year), photos of headstones, search for naturalization records. Cook County does not have a way for me to view birth, marriage or death certificates. You have to write to them to purchase a copy of the vital record. I do charge for postage, copy and film developing fees. |
| Cook | Jim Heckenbach | Obituaries. Online lookups of articles in Chicago Tribune archives 1855-1985 through HeritageQuest. Sometimes I can find non-obituaries, or articles after 1985, or from the suburbs. Other times there are no articles at all. These are copyrighted, so no republication is allowed. |
| Cook | Audrey B Florentine | Still photos of tombstones in Town of Maine Cemetery/Park Ridge, Forest Home Cemetery/Forest Park, Oak Ridge and Glen Oaks Cemeteries/Hillside. No winter visits. Name of deceased, date of death and lot location. |
| Cook | Cidney Engberg | Cook Co. IL early birth index starts in 1871 and ends in 1916. Index is on microfich and I can do limited lookups. First name needed on common surnames. |
| Cook | Dan Klute | I am willing to go through the newspapers from Cook County on microfilm to look for any obituaries people might be looking for. |
| Cook(Northfield Twp.) | Leslye Winslow | Northfield Twp. genealogy questions. Digital photos or lookups for cemeteries in Northbrook/Shermerville and Glenview (IL) ONLY (these are NOT in Chicago): North Northfield, Northfield Union, St. Peter, Sacred Heart, St. Mary at Techny, Northfield Oakwoods, St. John, Immanuel Lutheran, Russell-Techny Cemeteries. |
| Crawford | Judy Hudson | Will do Census Only lookups for Crawford Co. I have all census records from 1820 to 1930. Must give a full name. The age if possible. |
| Crawford | Sue Jones | all courthouse records before 1920 obits if name, and at least month and year are given, family file folders and/or books at library cemetery index look up all census records up to 1910 |
| Cumberland | Donna Rohwedder | Still photos of tombstones. |
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