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From: "Tim and Lynda Minter" <>
Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: No Subject
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 17:22:10 -0700
References: <180.7761f3d.2a0c62b5@aol.com>


Dave,
would you perhaps consider doing look-ups for other folks??
i also have the History of Henry co. 1877..do you have other references, as
well??
Lynda
SULLIVAN, MCKEEBY, MADISON, etc. in Henry co.
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> Dick,
>
> No, I am relativeky new to the list. I'm aware that there were multiple
> books, in fact, I copied much of the web page text from the site, and saw
the
> references to a variety of books. I probably already said this, but I
have a
> copy of the 'History of Henry County, Its Taxpayers and Voters', 1887.
This
> book was signed, in pencil, "Presented to David Dwight Blish from C. C.
> Blish". David, who I am named after, was my great-great-grandfather, and
C.
> C. Blish is Charles Chenet Blish, another member of the family and the
banker
> in Kewanee.
>
> If I have my story straight, without reading the book, James knox blish
was
> his son, and author of the "Genealogy of the Blish family in America". I
> have 2 copies of that book, on was my father's amd one my grandfathers. I
> also have a copy of the Supplement of the Genealogy.
>
> Thank you about the 4 bios. Somebody sent me that info already.
>
> I am disabled following a bicycle accident at age 50, and now
unemployable.
> I have 2 Macintosh systems and some attachments, have used WORD since
1987,
> and spend most of my time working on somebody's family history.
>
> I am creating a family tree database of the Kewanee and Wethersfiels
> townships, as Sylvester and Charles and James lived there. I got
interrupted
> and still have 2- pages or so to read and do data entry. So far the
database
> is over 3,000 people, including all of the ancestry of the Blish
relatives,
> back to 1637.
>
> I will create a searchable database from thatlater, when I finish entering
> the data from the book.
>
> I contacted several people there, asking if they had text pages of the
book,
> meaning mine. I received one response, and that didn't have names and
bios.
> If I had thoes pages in WORD format, I could easily use Copy and Paste to
add
> that to the database. I would make the result available to whoever wants
it,
> as a gedcom fil and as an EXCEL type searchable database.
>
> I'm having a bad hair day today. I was using my new jack knive, and cut
my
> index finger to the bone. So I wrapped it up tight. I wouldn't consider
> going to a VA hospital to get it fixed. Been there, done that. Its a
horror
> story, like being in a German WW II prison camp. Really!
>
> Thanks for the data. you can send text from WORD if its sent as RTF. A
> regulat text file gets trashed by AOL, as its changed to MIME, chopped up,
> sent out of sequence, then stuff gets lost andduplicated and sent out of
> sequence. Obvious snail-mail worked, but its expensive.
>
> Can I assist you any searches from Henry County, 1877? DaveB
>
>
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