Posts in August 18, 2025

A tree compiler indicated that a relative of mine was born in a specific small town in Illinois in the 1860s. I won’t repeat the name of the town or the relative in this public forum. But I was intrigued because the location was a significant distance from the general area where several of us conjecture he was born. I was more intrigued because there are no local birth records in Illinois in the 1860s. Their source, which could very well be reliable, was something I was interested in. Their tree had three sources for the specific village–the 1870, 1880 and 1900 census record. I had seen the census enumeration for this person, but doublechecked it just in case. All it said was Illinois as the place of […]