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From: Sharon Mills <>
Subject: Re: [INPARKE] Re: coal miners
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:04:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <38.3a48f3ce.2c213900@aol.com>
I suspect you might be right about the reports, but I also suspect these
might have been done more thoroughly toward the turn of the
century. Wonder if the Department of Natural Resources would be the place
to inquire? If records were sent to the State and stored, they would be at
the Indiana State Archives depository.
I agree with your perspective on knowing as much as you can about
background. Never know what perspective you will gain.
Sharon
At 11:39 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>In Illinois, There were Coal Reports done every year. It listed the deaths,
>non fatal injuries, improvements of mines, closures or opening of mines, etc.
>These reports were divided into districts which contained the various
>counties
>thru out the state. Maybe the same kind of reports were done for Indiana. I
>am assuming that the large mining corporations owned mines also in Indiana. I
>also know that I have found same kind of reports in West Virginia.
>On cyndislist.com there is Occupations listed which has mining. There is also
>a mailing list on Rootsweb related to Mining also.
>Good luck.
>P. S. genealogy doe not only deal with surnames, it also includes history of
>the area where our ancestors lived. The political arena, various occupation
>information, various disasters such as earthquakes, sinking of ships, the
>various wars. That's just to name a few topics that are included when
>researching
>our ancestors.
>Granny from Illinois
>
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