Iroquois County Genealogical Society is turning 40 years old in 2010.

We are trying to come up with some ideas to celebrate this milestone

Please feel free to share your ideas and check back for updates

We are thinking a cookbook would be fun but since Historical did that last year we are not getting much support for ours

We are thinking T'Shirts - What do you think?

Mary and Denise have a surprise Item in the works. You will be able to see it at the annual meeting in November

We are completing the process of making the STALKER available electronically. If you want to receive the STALKER via email please send your email address to iroqgene@yahoo.com so we can add you to the list.

-- We still need your help!!

The Iroquois County Genealogy Society would like to put together a cookbook for our 40th anniversary.

We would like to gather recipes that your grandmother or even great grandmother used to make. We are looking for recipes of your ethnic background; foods you ate as a child.

As you enter a recipe we would like your name, state, and whose recipe it originally was. (Such as Mary Buhr, Illinois in memory of my mother Clara Allen.) Then, please give the ethnic background for the recipe such as French, German, Pioneer American, Early East Coast American, Belgian, Italian, Southern, English, etc.

You may enter as many recipes as you wish. You may e-mail them to us at iroqgene@yahoo.com or mail them to Iroquois County Genealogy Society at 103 W. Cherry Street, Watseka, IL 60970. E-mail is the preferred and quickest to have the recipes arrive.

If the recipe is in the original handwriting or language you may scan it and e-mail it to us and we can print it in that form.

All recipes MUST be turned by September 1, 2009. We hope to have the book ready for Christmas giving 2009.

In order to give us an idea of how many books to print, you may request that we reserve copies for you. Just call the office at 815-432-3730 or add the request of the number of copies you want when you send in a recipe. You do not have to be a member of the Iroquois County Genealogy Society to submit a recipe or reserve a book.