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From: Jan Roggy <>
Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: No Subject
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 20:13:11 -0500
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I have the 1885 Portrait & Biographical Album of Henry Co., & I would be
glad to do lookups. I also have the 1880 census on cds. Jan

Tim and Lynda Minter wrote:
>
> 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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> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: No Subject
>
> > 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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> >
> >
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