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E-mail: Bill Murray Thu Dec 25 19:33:52
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E-mail: carl cawdery
Fri Jan 16 11:35:08 1998
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E-mail: Ginni Morey Sun Feb 1 20:03:02
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E-mail: Bob D.
Schliem Mon Feb 2 15:31:01 1998
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Great Work. Keep it Up While browsing the Graduation List I found my Aunt's
name in the 1927 List. I have downloaded a copy which I will give to her for
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E-mail: Bob D.
Schliem Thu Feb 12 18:11:43 1998
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Interested in contacting FHS class of 1939-1944
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E-mail: COL Bruce M. Jones
Mon Feb 16 18:36:32 1998
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Monroe Family
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E-mail: Glen Woolsey
Fri Feb 20 22:57:30 1998
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E-mail: Amy Robbins-
Tjaden Wed Feb 25 08:43:41 1998
Home page: http://www.summitsoftware.com/pwa/saathoff.htm
I'm interested in exchanging information with those interested in ancestors
from Ostfriesland (now
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E-mail: Phil Chirnside
Mon Mar 2 17:33:47 1998
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Seeking information about my great grandfather John Chirnside
, who is supposed to have homesteaded in Jefferson Co. about 1865-1868. also his descendants.
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E-mail: Ken Eckert
Thu Mar 12 16:24:40 1998
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Excellent!! I signed up for the list and got very good response. I am
researching a branch of my EDGINGTON family and several people were very quick
to do some look-ups and help me out. Thanks neighbors!! Ken from
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E-mail: Jean West Knox
Edwards Thu Apr 2 19:49:12 1998
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Hello! I was born in
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E-mail: Frank Jordan
Mon Apr 6 22:16:06 1998
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Just checking this out, and wanted to say hello.
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E-mail: Edmund Wheatley Starr, Jr. Fri Apr
10 10:24:49 1998
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E-mail: Joannah
Chatfield Wed Apr 29 19:22:30 1998
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E-mail: quent swartz
Sun May 3 00:12:01 1998
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Just checking in on my town. A great place to live.
Good start on a page hope to see more in the future.
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E-mail: GLENDA RYALL
Sun May 3 13:37:34 1998
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Enjoyed Jefferson County pages. I was born in Fairbury and have long history
there.
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E-mail: Jim Morey Thu May 7 08:50:21 1998
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E-mail: Lana Grammer
Rempel Thu May 14 06:44:14 1998
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Enjoy your site! Keep up the good work! It's nice to see all the people
interested in Fairbury and/or the people that live(d)
there!
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E-mail: Linda Vess
Sat May 23 11:33:06 1998
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It's great to see so much here! My grandfather James Jackson and his sister
Jean were born in Fairbury back around 1913 and 1918.
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E-mail: Philip L. Browning
Thu May 28 20:01:00 1998
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Nice Web page. I have roots in Fairbury area (e.g. Junker, Frederick &
Browning.) Thanks for your great efforts.
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E-mail: Lois Andrews- Band
Thu Jun 4 09:05:33 1998
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Thanks for providing a great resource for many unanswered questions. I hope the
Steele City 125 reunion will answer more at the end of June 1998. I would be
glad to hear from anyone with information about people and life in Jeff co at
any time.
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E-mail: Harlan Diller
Tue Jun 9 20:51:11 1998
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Am great grandson of Jacob Diller.
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E-mail: Vesta Bowers Sat Jul 11 13:09:27 1998
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E-mail: Lowell L. Miller
Sat Jul 11 16:39:22 1998
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E-mail: Mary Takami Sun Aug 2 22:43:29 1998
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E-mail: Harry J. Friesen
Wed Aug 5 13:46:11 1998
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I really like this site. I graduated from Fairbury High in l929. My compainion
and hi school seetheart graduated ln 1930. Her name is La Berta Blair. We got
together again after not seeing each other in over 60 years. I am interest in
high school classes starting with 1929, 1930, etc. Can you help with this? I
lived in
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E-mail: Betty DeHolt Fri Aug 14 19:09:52 1998
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E-mail: Sam Watts Wed Aug 26
14:41:24 1998
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My father, Henry Jolly Watts, was born
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E-mail: Ardythe
Crawford Fri Aug 28 01:57:02 1998
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A great site!..... lots of
kudos to Ms Busing!.... found my husband's Grandfather and great grandfather....
understand there are still some Relatives of William T. Brawner in Fairbury and
E-mail: Twila Davis
Reed Sun Aug 30 01:06:08 1998
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/2087
Great site...very informative! I am currently searching for relatives or anyone
who knows of Robert T. Mahoney or Katherine Anne Brawner. These are my
great-grandparents and we are trying to find more information about them or any
of their relatives. Please contact me with anything you might have. Robert was
born around 1836, as was Katherine.
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E-mail: Carolyn C. Marvin Sat Sep 12 21:44:12
1998
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E-mail: Earl
"Skip" Michels Thu Sep 17 22:29:44 1998
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Have been working on the Michels - Fandrei - Meyer family tree. Would love to share info. Believe we all need to know more
about our past. Congrats to all the people donating their valuable time!
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E-mail: Jeannine Slater
Anderson Mon Sep 21 15:32:17 1998
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Searching information re Sanford and Sarah Van Wye Slater. Will
be in Fairbury October 2, 3, & 4, 1998. Any assistance will be
greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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E-mail: Roland
Elliott Tue Sep 29 10:31:50 1998
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Elliotts of Rosecreek in the 1860-80's
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E-mail: HAROLD E. LIGHTBODY
Sat Oct 10 17:53:54 1998
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Researching "LIGHTBODY'S", would like to exchange information. This
is a very good site, keep up the good work
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E-mail: Diane Dickerson
Tue Oct 13 17:13:45 1998
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I enjoyed browsing your page. Have a great uncle and others buried at Fairbury.
You've made a great start at getting some important indexes online. Keep up the
good work.
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E-mail: Abby Brown
Sat Oct 17 21:18:34 1998
Home page: http://cyberenet.net/~abby
I enjoyed your page. Keep up the good work! Feel free to visit my page. It's
cool too.
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E-mail: Sam Watts Mon Oct 19
14:18:07 1998
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Hello! I've visited this site several times & have enjoyed each visit. Thank you, volunteers, & all responsible. Would like to
make a small correction to my August guestbook comments :
my great- grandfather Samuel Watts, son of Joseph & Lydia Watts of Butler
County, Ohio, ran a mill at
E-mail: Sam Watts Mon Oct 19
14:21:44 1998
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Complete address:
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E-mail: Richard Brickell Sun Oct 25
07:59:04 1998
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E-mail: WILLIAM A.
SCHLIEM Thu Oct 29 21:40:23 1998
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BROUSING AND SEEN THE NAME . WHERE YOU FROM? I'M FROM
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E-mail: Linda Lofing
Thu Nov 5 06:17:26 1998
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I grew up in
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E-mail: Eva Light Goeken Sat Nov 7 11:48:12
1998
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E-mail: Donna
Nelson Mon Nov 9 14:20:59 1998
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No comment.
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E-mail: Joy Salerni
Mon Nov 9 20:03:35 1998
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What a great web site. Still have lots to look at. I am researching the
McDowell's. I understand that Woodford G. McDowell and his brother started the
town of
E-mail: Tiffany
Hoban Thu Nov 12 12:50:01 1998
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I'm a teacher in western
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E-mail: Mark Kahler
Wed Nov 25 14:37:20 1998
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What a great website! My father Marvin Kahler was born on a farm near Fairbury.
Both his parents have roots in Ostfriesland (northwestern corner of
E-mail: Tim Penner
Fri Dec 4 20:20:56 1998
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Decendent of Abraham T. Friesen... If you're researching the Friesen name and
have Abraham T. Friesen, please drop me an e-mail.
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E-mail: Audrey
Garlie Thu Dec 31 07:43:27 1998
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I am searching for information on the Brees/Barnes family. Janie Brees at age
19 married Alpha N. Barnes in Aug.1881 at Jefferson Cty.
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E-mail: Priscilla "P.A." Kruger Mowinkel
Thu Jan 21 12:11:16 1999
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E-mail: Steve
Zappe Tue Jan 26 19:21:41 1999
Home page: http://rgfn.epcc.edu/users/ad343/family.html
This is almost like being there! My grandparents moved from Plymouth/Jansen
during the Depression to
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E-mail: Hubert
Greenwood Thu Jan 28 15:11:52 1999
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Just browsing, but anything connected to Jeff. Co. brings back happy memories
of growing up in
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E-mail: Keith E. Johnston Thu Jan 28 18:31:28
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E-mail: Pamela Schafer
Faustlin Sun Jan 31 11:42:56 1999
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I am researching Fairbury and
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E-mail: Steve Winn
Fri Feb 12 15:43:18 1999
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I am researching my mothers family, RODENDECK. I know
that in the early 1900's ERNEST RODENBECK, FREDRICK RODENBECK, FREDRICK
RODENBECK JR., and his wife MINNA WIEMERS lived in Thayer county
near Williams Siding. Any information on the RODENBECK or WIEMERS families
would be appreciated
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E-mail: Sharon Lang Roode
Sat Jun 12 10:45:19 1999
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Thanks to all that made this possible
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E-mail: Rita Wells
Wed Jun 23 19:10:19 1999
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Thanks for the opportunity to research in your county.
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E-mail: Kathy Laflen
Fri Jul 16 08:58:40 1999
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This is an awesome site. My families are the Steele's - Calvin and Annie, and
Roy and Elfrieda and the Michels's (Fred and Margaret). Keep up the great work
on this site - there is valuable information within!
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E-mail: James B.
Downs, Sr. Mon Jul 19 19:58:56 1999
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My family lived here from 1946 to 1956. My father was William M. Downs, DDS and
had an office in the Golden Rule Bldg, downtown overlooking the Bonham Theater.
I went to what used to be the East Ward school and
lived on
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E-mail: James Leonard Hosack
Tue Aug 17 11:35:40 1999
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I am Ruth Helvey Hosack's son and my great great etc grandfather is Joel
Helvey. What a nice bunch of info you have on
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E-mail: M. Koch Roman
Sat Aug 28 21:59:20 1999
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What a great source of information!! I grew up in the Jansen/Fairbury area and
was delighted to discover this great source of information--including 'reading'
the Fairbury Journal/News on a regular business.
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E-mail: Brett Molzahn
Wed Sep 29 13:03:30 1999
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Great site, I was researching for any information on my gggrandfather John
Molzahn that lived in
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E-mail: Anna Simmons
Sat Oct 30 16:37:24 1999
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Thanks for having this site! I notice there are no maps on first maps . hope that you can soon have
some there My husbands simmons, Harms, Flagle , relatives are in
E-mail: Martha R. Stephenson
Sat Dec 11 02:49:07 1999
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If you would like I can send information for the Fielder Families of both Gage
and
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E-mail: PJ
Thu Mar 16 12:33:16 2000
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I am doing research on the HODGES and SWARTZ lines of Fairbury and Rulo areas.
My father and his siblings grew up in Fairbury and he is buried there. I still
have aunts, uncles and cousins living in the area. Thanks to Brenda and all her
hard work, I was able to find an obituary for my great-great-grandfather,
Solomon Swartz. This is a fantastic website----so informative and easy to use.
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E-mail: LaRea ( HIRSCH ) Rose Thu Mar 23 17:54:26 2000
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This is really improving...and you two are doing a tremendous job on this site.
Thank you very much. The cemetery site is well worth while when it is finished.
It really helps locate the graves.
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E-mail: Joan Manners
Batchelor Mon Mar 27 16:52:49 2000
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Looking for ancestors Bishops and Johnsons in
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E-mail: Jeanne Freeman
Thu May 4 14:50:15 2000
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My ancestors lived in Fairbury and Reynolds before moving on to
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E-mail: Roberta Summers
Mon May 22 06:19:55 2000
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I am new at researching in
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E-mail: Barbara Busing
Cramer Mon Jun 26 16:44:42 2000
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Hi Brenda: I don't think I have ever tried this page before. That will teach
me. Page is great!!! Keep up the good work. Seaching, Busing, Cramer,
Rademacher,Meints, Reid, Yates, Harris,
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E-mail: Delores M. Lowe
Fri Jul 7 07:52:36 2000
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I would like a precinct map of Jefferson & Gage counties.
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E-mail: Leonard Kent Ewers Sat Jul 8
00:12:41 2000
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E-mail: Wm. Steven
Yontz Thu Jul 13 21:28:34 2000
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I just surfed on into this site for the first time. It's great. Hope to be able
to contribute. I'm researching my grandparents WILLIAM SHERMAN YONTZ AND
LILLIAN SNODGRASS YONTZ, whom I never knew. I have no dates (birth, marriage,
death, etc.) other than they lived in Faibury in the 1920's. They had a son,
William Owen Yontz, my Dad. He probably would have graduated FHS around
1934-36. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated. thanks so much, Steve. PS: I graduated from
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E-mail: Joanne Smith
Sat Jul 22 17:42:52 2000
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Brenda, I was recently in Fairbury doing some research at the courthouse on the
BENNETT, DENNIS and JACOBS families and noticed the History Room. Then I saw
the article in the Lincoln Journal-Star which brought me to this site. I am new
to the internet side of genealogy and think I will be visiting your site many
times. Thanks for all your hard work. Joanne Smith--
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E-mail: Karen Manson
Fri Aug 4 16:30:22 2000
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Enjoyed all the comments on
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E-mail: Joan Manners
Batchelor Fri Aug 11 17:10:52 2000
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Thanks for the site. Does anyone do lookups for Fairbury? I have found my
mother's name for graduating high school and my great grandmother's cause and
date of death. Thanks. Joan Batchelor
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E-mail: Daniel
J. Hughes Thu Aug 17 13:13:03 2000
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Greetings Cousin Brenda, Great website and project you have going! Your just way too good at this. Everytime I think I might
have discovered some new lead, it turns out you submitted it. Keep up the great
work!
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E-mail: Leonard K.
Ewers Thu Aug 24 12:18:39 2000
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I have just begun to use your fine services. I really appreciate this service.
I was born in Fairbury in 1935 on
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E-mail: Clara Falk Mon Sep 4 19:52:51 2000
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E-mail: lynn McDonnell Mielcarek Sat Oct 21 13:19:02 2000
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This site has been very helpful. I am looking for any information on my great
grandfather/grandmother,John and Mary McDonnell. They
lived in Fairbury in the late 1800's. I will be using this site a great deal in
the future. Lynn (McDonnell)Mielcarek.
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E-mail: Linda Harrus Fri Jan 5
19:43:22 2001
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E-mail: RON CONRY Sat Jan 13 18:34:40 2001
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E-mail: Phyllis
Sat Jan 27 21:35:41 2001
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What a great spot to do geneological research. In a matter of a few hours I
made contact with a relative I did not even know! And found gaps in my family
tree. Keep up the terrific work!
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E-mail: Jason Jordan
Sun Feb 11 13:20:07 2001
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Great site!! Keep up the good work
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E-mail: Cary Schooling
Campbell Thu Mar 1 20:28:48 2001
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Brenda, you and your mother are wonderful ! Because of
you I was able to find the name of my Great great Grandmother after 20 years of
searching ! NELLIE BROWN I can't tell you how much
that means to me. I not only was able to find out her name, but that of her
parents. AND I was able to place flowers on her grave this last June 2000. On
her headstone it said "Gone but not forgotten" I just can't thank you
enough. Thank you for everything you do! The world needs more people like you
and your mother. :-)
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E-mail: nancy
brandt siebert Mon Mar 12 14:24:46 2001
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Good grief! This is way more than I expected! Nice site!
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E-mail: Jack Timmel
Mon Mar 26 23:05:49 2001
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At this point I have no suggestions. Am more curious than any
thing. My mothers family were long time
residents of Daykin Ne. Her maiden name was Schmitt. Her mothers
maiden name was Houser. Have been trying to track down records of the family
for a couple of years
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E-mail: Kathy Kautzman
Fri Mar 30 20:50:39 2001
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Have been searching for six years for family of Fairbury. Names are KAUTZMAN,
FARREL, LITTRELL. Littrell's had farm in 1880's.
Kautzman's were a paperhanger/painter family in 1890-1900. Farrel worked on the
railroad R I What was that? He may have left town in 1901. PLEASE, PLEASE, READ
THIS AND ANY HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED.
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E-mail: Clarence Lott
Fri Apr 27 08:03:02 2001
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You site ranks up there with the best of them. My father, Clarence Lott, Sr.,was born in
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E-mail: John
Gallagher Thu May 17 20:55:02 2001
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Found this site while trying to track down a family legend - - just that our
E-mail: Eva Goeken
Mon Jul 9 17:56:45 2001
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Thank you, for a great web site. Have visited the
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E-mail: Eileen Shotsman
Wed Aug 8 20:06:00 2001
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I was hunting information on Edward,& Veryl Shotsman also Phylis Grubbs all
who are buried in the Fairbury cemetary.I have enjoyed looking over all your
information it is very benificial.
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E-mail: Jerry
Gillespie Tue Aug 14 10:25:22 2001
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nice site I was born in fairbury 7/15/48 my mother was ruth E. Aude of
gladstone I'm related to a lot of people up there but without my grandmother
Icouldnt tell you how . have a lot of pic of fairbury
will try to email you some of the old ones thanks jlg.
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E-mail: Barbara Clark
Archer Mon Sep 10 15:50:38 2001
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The Jefferson
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E-mail: laura neville woods Thu Sep 27 09:20:08 2001
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excellent website...thank you for all your hard work. My great-grandparents
came to Fairbury from
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E-mail: Lois Harris
Mon Oct 29 12:56:00 2001
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Need Info on Charlie Harris b. Dec 8, 1874 d. Dec 9, 1963 and Henrietta Harris
b. Sept 26, 1876 d. Dec 27, 1962. both buried Fairbury
Cem. Went to methodist church in Fairbury. They lived
at
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E-mail: Brian Roesch
Mon Nov 12 13:27:13 2001
Home page: http://hometown.aol.com/liondog96/myhomepage/business.html
Nice site!!! I surfed in to check it out. I am a published author. I have a # 1
selling ghost hunting book titled: HUNTING THE DEAD. I'm glad I dropped in to
see your site. Keep up the great work!!! Brian
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E-mail: Tricia Oberndorf
Sat Dec 22 14:03:10 2001
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Thanks for the website! It offers a great opportunity for those of us with
Jefferson Co. heritage to make connections. Researching MANLEY,
RUCKER, WHITNEY, SOUTHWORTH.
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