Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to this LaSalle County ILGenWeb site.
2024 Nov 22 - Spruced up the site design and removed broken links
2024 Nov 19 - Norma Hass re-adopted LaSalle County ILGenWeb
2022 Feb 01 - LaSalle County ILGenWeb made Available for Adoption
2021 Aug 14 - Fixed broken Back-to-Top button at the bottom of the pages
2021 Aug 13 - Removed broken drop-down menus from naviation line
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 Apr 09 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, because the St. Hyacinth Anniversary book images
did not turn out well, we are starting again from scratch, building a new 1925 and a new 1950 St. Hyacinth collection.
The previous 2 batches will remain available until the new collections are complete.
2021 Apr 06 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added Starved Rock postcards
2021 Aor 06 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added more pages from St. Hyacinth book
2021 Apr 02 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added St. Hyacinth's Anniversary book
2021 Mar 29 - Added Joseph SARWINSKI descendants report
2021 Mar 24 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added SARWINSKI family collection
2021 Mar 18 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added 24 portraits
2021 Mar 17 - Thanks to Peggy Calhoun, added 91 portraits
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links
2021 Feb 08 - Thanks to Ann Marie Liakos, added John FENTON family info and query
2021 Feb 06 - Thanks to Steph McGrath, added Kennedy O'BRIEN 1886 biography
2020 Dec 21 - Added a few 1840-1841 Ottawa Free Trader newpaper extractions
2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource links to Illinois Secretary of State Databases and Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
2020 Jun 13 - Thanks to
Viv Toepfer, added photos of school children
2020 Mar 30 - Thanks to Jean Spiegelberg, added to MAROHN family collection
2020 Mar 06 - Thanks to Jean Spiegelberg, added to MAROHN family collection
2020 Mar 05 - Thanks to Jean Spiegelberg, added to MAROHN family collection
2020 Mar 04 - Thanks to Jean Spiegelberg, added MAROHN family collection
2020 Mar 01 - Thanks to
Jean Spiegelberg, added Heinrich MAROHN family group sheet
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new
ILLASALLE query board and mailing list
2019 Nov 30 - Thanks to Cheryl Rothwell, added Resource link to Coal Mining in Illinois
2019 Oct 21 - Added an extraction and Resource link for Stories from Illinois History
2019 Aug 14 - Thanks to Dee Archuleta, added John D. ALLEN family group sheet
2019 Jul 10 - Added Resource links to Free Trader newspapers and a few excerpts from Illinois Free Trader
2019 Jun 13 - Added 44 more bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2019 May 13 - Added 29 more 1900 bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2019 Mar 17 - Thanks to
Hilde Fagernes, added her IVERSON query
2019 Feb 23 - Thanks to
Diane Inman, added Caspar RUDY family group sheet
2019 Feb 18 - Added information about Wenona Community Cemetery
2018 Dec 19 - Added 32 more bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2018 Nov 08 - Added remaining transcription of 1932 Stories of Pioneer Days
2018 Sep 22 - Thanks to
Matthew, added HOLMAN ARTHUR marriage announcement
2018 Aug 24 - Added remaining transcription of 1882 City of La Salle (a
business directory)
2018 Jun 06 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added links to Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps
2018 May 24 - Restored family photos, Robert Raley family group sheet, and school board photo
2018 Apr 24 - Thanks to
Mary
Saggio, added GARFIELD, KESSLER, McELHENIE, and SCHREINER
obituaries as well as McELHENIE autobiography and wedding article
2018 Apr 07 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
2018 Mar 25 - Thanks to
Georgene
Brookman, added her COOPER query and GODDARD/COOPER family info
2018 Feb 15 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Korean War Fatal Casualties list
2018 Feb 12 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Vietnam War Fatal Casualties list
2018 Jan 27 - Added early land sales listings
2017 Dec 25 - Thanks to
Nola, added HINSHAW/RIBBONS query
2017 Dec 22 - Added more bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2017 Dec 11 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added
Mexican American War link
2017 Aug 19 - Added some bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2017 Aug 18 - LaSalle ILGenWeb is now more mobile friendly courtesy of Marsha
Bryant of Templates in Time
2017 Aug 11 - Added a Table of Contents for the 1882 Business Directory
2017 Jul 17 - Added some bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2017 Jun 30 - Restored Military Land Grant listings
2017 May 19 - Added Revolutionary War veteran burial
2017 Apr 10 - Thanks to Gerry Lynn Thompson, added a modern highway access map,
biographical newspaper article about Samuel R LEWIS and the
Underground Railroad, 3 obituaries (LOWMAN, MICHAELS, and WEISS) and
resource links to IndexMundi, John Hossack, NPS, and IHPA
2017 Mar 21 - Thanks to Gerry Lynn Thompson, noted that Park Lawn Cemetery has
been absorbed by Summit View Cemetery.
2017 Mar 03 - Added 1800 1899 birth listings
2017 Jan 27 - Thanks to Gerry Lynn Thompson, added list of veterans buried in
Summit View cemetery
2016 Dec 29 - Thanks to Gerry Lynn Thompson, added obituary for August BETTGER and
improved cemetery listing
2016 Dec 26 - Added some bios from 1900 Biographical and Genealogical
Record of LaSalle County, Illinois
2016 Nov 29 - Welcome new co coordinator Gerry Lynn Thompson
2016 Nov 15 - Added listings for Black Hawk War, Mexican American War, Civil
War muster & descriptive rolls, and Spanish American War
2016 Nov 05 - Restored queries, and added 1900 Marshall biographies
2016 Oct 07 - Added 1929 Honor Roll and Soldiers' & Sailors' Home Residents
2016 Sep 17 - Added 1908 History of the Swedes biographies for Algot CARLSON
and Charles FRITZ
2016 Aug 13 - Thanks to Judith Hinton, added Wm STRINGER descendants chart
2016 Jul 16 - Thanks to Judy Kunz, added to JOHNSON & NELSON info
2016 Jun 18 - Restored 1901 Wiggins' Directory, 1850 & 1860 Mortality Schedules
2016 May 07 - Thanks to Judy Kunz, added JOHNSON & NELSON info
2016 Apr 02 - Added downloaded pdf files from DPLA
2016 Mar 31 - Added off site Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) resource
2016 Feb 21 - Thanks to Cheryl Rothwell, added Primitive Baptist Church resource
links
2016 Jan 30 - Added resource links to "Life of a Woman Pioneer," Directory of
former Ottawa residents, and Starved Rock.
2016 Jan 24 - Added to Families charts (fgs & dsc for DOYLE)
2015 Dec 12 - Added marriage listings Q Z
2015 Dec 06 - Added marriage listings K P
2015 Dec 04 - Added marriage listings A J
2015 Nov 29 - Added to Families (BURGESS, HILLER, KELSEY, MORGAN)
2015 Nov 26 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths T Z
2015 Nov 25 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths O S
2015 Nov 01 - Thanks to
Carol
Kreider, added Elizabeth HARMESON descendants chart
2015 Oct 31 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths N
2015 Oct 11 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths L M
2015 Oct 10 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths J K
2015 Sep 19 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths G I
2015 Sep 07 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths D F
2015 Sep 05 - Added 1916 1950 Deaths A C
2015 Aug 01 - Added Dysart and Salisbury family charts
2015 Jul 26 - Thanks to Angela Seaman, added Seaman Long marriage certificate (and
family charts)
2015 Jun 06 - Added extracts from 1932 Stories of Pioneer Days
2015 May 25 - Added Townships, Places, and Maps
2015 May 10 - County Coordinator Norma Hass implemented new look courtesy of
veteran USGenWeb coordinator Marsha Bryant of Templates in Time.
| Lee | DeKalb | Kane |
| Bureau |
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Kendall |
| Putnam | Grundy | |
| Marshall | Woodford | Livingston |
