What's New
Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to this Edwards County ILGenWeb site.
2022 Feb 01 - Edwards County ILGenWeb made Available for Adoption
2021 Aug 19 - Added 1890-1899 and 1900-1901 death listings
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 May 27 - Changed Donna Sheraden's email from sheradendk@webtv.net to donnasheraden1974@gmail.com
2021 Mar 22 - Thanks to Pam Reitsch, added 1895 Rand McNally Atlas map
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links
2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource links to Illinois Secretary of State Databases and Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
2020 Nov 28 - Added 1884 Dec 25 newspaper extractions from Albion Journal
2020 Mar 28 - Added 1918 article about the History of Episcopal Church
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new
ILEDWARDS query board and mailing list
2019 Dec 04 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Bunting, Doty, Griess,
Land, Massey, and Wilson obituaries
2019 Oct 20 - Added extractions & Resource link for Stories from Illinois
History
2019 Oct 19 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Roosevelt obituary
2019 Oct 16 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Goodson and Witter obituaries
2019 Oct 07 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added O'Donnell obituary
2019 Sep 24 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Lingafelter obituary
2019 Sep 14 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Hinderliter obituary
2019 Aug 28 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Cook, Gard, and Gillete
obituaries
2019 Aug 22 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Baxter and McDowell obituaries
2019 Aug 01 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Eikenhorst obituary
2019 Jul 30 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Vaughan obituary
2019 Jul 18 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Mann obituary
2019 Jul 15 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added more obituaries
2019 Jul 03 - Thanks to Charlie Cowling, added John Cowling descendants
2019 May 25 - Added a few Edwards County births from Cook County records
2019 Feb 03 - Added extraction and Resource link to History of the Disciples
of Christ in Illinois
30 Nov 2018 - Thanks to Robert Webb, added Resource for copies of Deeds
11 Nov 2018 - Added 32 biographies from 1912 History of Southern Illinois
volume 3
03 Nov 2018 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added Josie Allen obituary
03 Nov 2018 - Added extraction of Albion history from 1883 Combined History
29 Sep 2018 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added more obituaries
25 Aug 2018 - Added extraction of Dixon history from 1883 Combined History
15 Jun 2018 - Thanks to Jerry Williams, added obituary for Ray PRITCHETT
08 Jun 2018 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added Resource link to Sanborn Maps
05 Jun 2018 - Extracted a few more tidbits from 1884 newspaper
16 Apr 2018 - Thanks to Sue Walker, added Thomas WALKER query
07 Apr 2018 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
01 Apr 2018 - Thanks to John Stone, added Resource link to STONE-RHODES
family website
28 Mar 2018 - Added links to a GSSI map of Edwards County
15 Feb 2018 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Korean War Fatal Casualties list
12 Feb 2018 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Vietnam War Fatal Casualties list
03 Feb 2018 - Added portions of a newspaper article
16 Jan 2018 - Added Bruce Campbell biography
23 Dec 2017 - Added Edwards county extraction of 1883 Chapter 7
11 Dec 2017 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added
Mexican-American War Resource link
14 Aug 2017 - Added BOND, BUXTON, and TIETZE descendants charts
12 Aug 2017 - Added remaining 1883 biographies, added James SMITH family
group sheet
11 Aug 2017 - Added some births from FamilySearch.org
29 Jul 2017 - Added a few 1883 biographies
27 Jul 2017 - Thanks to Carol Lee Yarbrough, added Civil War resource link
30 Jun 2017 - Restored Military Land Grants for War of 1812 & Indian Wars
20 May 2017 - Added GSSI resource link
19 May 2017 - Added extraction from Illinois Society Sons of the American
Revolution
10 Apr 2017 - Added extraction from A History of Southern Illinois
20 Feb 2017 - Added Table of Contents of 1909 History of English Settlement
25 Jan 2017 - Added Servitude & Emancipation list
22 Dec 2016 - Added Walter Mayo biography
26 Nov 2016 - Added a map
13 Nov 2016 - Added 1883 military pensioners
30 Oct 2016 - Added Marriages and 1916-1950 Deaths
26 Oct 2016 - Added World War II army enlistments
24 Oct 2016 - New Look courtesy of Marsha Bryant of Templates in Time, and
added lists of Black Hawk War veterans, Civil War soldiers, Spanish-American
War veterans, 1929 Roll of Honor, and Soldiers & Sailors Home Residents
15 Oct 2016 - New County Coordinator - Norma Hass