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I invite you to enter a query for your Will County ancestors by adding a comment to this page. A few basic rules for posting your query: Your query must have an Will county connection or it will not be posted. Please put the...

Queries 2006 posted by Jim Gillis, Jan 2, 2006 I discovered that an ancestor I am researching may have been an inmate at a prison in Will County (JOLIET?), IL in the 1910 census. The name was Claude Bailey and I am trying to...

Queries 2005 MCNERNY; posted by Jim Dutcher, Jan 1, 2005 I am looling for information on Anthony MCNERNY Town Marshall of Jolliet, Will county, Ill. circa 1860/1870. GEDDIS, GOLD, HORSMAN, KERR, ROBINSON; posted by Dennis Kerr,...

Queries 2004 BENNETT, HIBBARD, SKINNER; posted by Kay Lewis, Jan 1, 2004 My great grandmother was Sarah Elizabeth SKINNER dob 4-15-1854, raised by her grandparent Elenor and Mr. BENNETT. I have old family pictures from Joilet...

Queries 2003 DIMOND; posted by Doris Morley, Jan 3, 2003 I am searching for info on James DIMOND, who moved from Will County to Milwaukee Co., WI in February of 1840. I will share all info I have on this man and his family....

Queries 2002 RICKMAN, RIECKMANN, RIEKMANN, SCHULTZ, WOLLE; posted by Mona Houser, Jan 1, 2002 My grandmother Anna Maria Dorothea RIECKMANN, daughter of Christoph RIECKMANN / RICKMAN / RIEKMANN and his wife Elisabeth WOLLE, was...

Queries 2001 PARKS; posted by Brenda Reiter, Jan 7, 2001 Looking for information on great uncle Clarence Henry PARKS known as Hank. Father was Willian Henry PARKS. He was brother to my grandfather Clinton Ogden PARKS. Clarence...

Queries 2000 SILVERMAN; posted by Carolyn Bunch, Jan 5, 2000 I am looking for information on my childrens grandfather Robert SILVERMAN who passed away within the last five years in Will County IL. His surviving wife was Ruth...

Queries 1999 BUCHMEIER, GAMER, KAMIN, MAAS, MIESER, STEHR, STIER; posted by Karen Rowe, Jan 1, 1999 Mr. STEHR and Louise MAAS had 4 daughters who came to America: Wilhelmine (1848-1928) who married in 1868 to Friedrich Wilhelm...

Queries 1998 CRUMMEY, MATEER, METIER, RIDENOUR, WILSON; posted by Harriet Marvin, Jan 1, 1998 Hi! I’m looking for WILSONs, too. My Lucy Emma WILSON married William James CRUMMEY in 1880. Her parents were Samuel Davis...

Queries 1997 CARPENTER, NAYLOR, ROOK; posted by Muriel Schwartz, Jan 1, 1997 John NAYLOR, his wife Elizabeth nee ROOK, their son John who married Betsy, her father & mother, John Brown & Bridget CARPENTER came from...

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