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What's New at This Site

Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to Jackson County ILGenWeb.

2025 May 28 - Restored Mississippi Marine Brigade Recruits and Coroner's Inquests; fixed or removed broken links; updated headers and footers of all pages

2024 May 10 - Fixed broken and redirected links

2022 Oct 17 - Thanks to Bob Sullivan, added HonorStates.org Resource link
2022 Jun 01 - Removed broken link to ILGenWeb Resources
2022 Apr 22 - Added more 1876 biographies (Houston, Minton, and Potts)
2022 Apr 20 - Added 1876 Atlas of Illinois extractions and Resource link
2022 Feb 01 - Prepared to move site off Genealogy Village (removed form & host info)

2021 Aug 14 - Fixed broken Back-to-Top button at bottom of pages
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 Jul 09 - Added Thomas Lewis RASCOE descendants report
2021 Jul 08 - Added Robert SYKES descendants report
2021 Jul 06 - Added Resource link to 1878 History of Jackson County with a list of some of the biographies
2021 Jul 05 - Restored some church histories and church records
2021 Mar 22 - Thanks to Pam Reitsch, added 1895 Rand McNally Atlas county map
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links

2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource link to Illinois Secretary of State Databases
2020 Oct 27 - Restored some histories (A History of Brownsville, History of Jackson County, John M. Gill's Story, and Historic Tidbits)
2020 Aug 06 - Restored some bible records
2020 Aug 05 - Thanks to Carol Allsup, restored some Kimmel family info
2020 Aug 05 - Remodeled this site
2020 Aug 01 - Added a dozen more 1894 biographies
2020 Jul 31 - Added a dozen more 1894 biographies
2020 Mar 26 - Added sixteen more 1894 biographies
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new ILJACKSON query board and mailing list

2019 Dec 04 - Thanks to Stephen Cutler, added his Campbell cemetery query
2019 Dec 01 - Thanks to Cheryl Rothwell, added Resource link to Coal Mining in Illinois
2019 Nov 30 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, added Resource link to Free and American by Darrel Dexter
2019 Oct 20 - Added extractions and Resource link for Stories from Illinois History
2019 Aug 28 - Added more 1894 biographies
2019 May 29 - Thanks to Curtis Stover, added his CANNON/CROW query
2019 Mar 10 - Added Resource links to Logan Museum and Notable Gravesites
2019 Mar 09 - Added WWI newspaper articles
2019 Jan 26 - Added a few Jan & Feb 1899 newspaper marriage & death notices

2018 Nov 11 - Added 33 biographies from 1912 History of Southern Illinois
2018 Nov 02 - Added Resource link to naturalization records at FamilySearch.org
2018 Sep 28 - Added resource link to church records
2018 Aug 26 - Thanks to Joel S. Russell, added Black Hawk War listing
2018 Aug 25 - Thanks to Joel S. Russell, added links to his typed plats
2018 Jul 26 - Thanks to Cindy Leonard, added historical note about Memorial Day
2018 Jun 08 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added links to Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
2018 Apr 07 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
2018 Mar 28 - Added links to a GSSI map of Jackson County
2018 Feb 15 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Korean War Fatal Casualites list
2018 Feb 12 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Vietnam War Fatal Casualites list
2018 Jan 30 - Welcome Co Coordinator Melissa McCord !
2018 Jan 25 - Thanks to K Perce, repaired broken links to Primitive Baptist Library
2018 Jan 16 - Added rest of biographies from 1912 History of Southern Illinois, Volume 2

2017 Dec 14 - Restored Places info from Gazetteers
2017 Dec 11 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added Mexican American War link
2017 Jul 13 - Added David Shadowens descendants chart
2017 Jul 06 - Added John McCoy descendants chart
2017 Jun 28 - Added some 1912 History of Southern Illinois biographies from volume 2
2017 May 20 - Added GSSI resource link
2017 Apr 15 - Added a few more obituaries and some births
2017 Feb 22 - Added a few more 1894 biographies
2017 Jan 22 - Reformated website
2017 Jan 17 - Thanks to Deborah Piquard, corrected spellings of Piquard in St. Andrews cemetery listing

2016 Dec 24 - Added 1894 Historical Review extractions and link
2016 Nov 26 - Added Civil War illegal arrest of Israel Blanchard
2016 Nov 06 - Added Feezor, Rose, Taylor, and Trovillion biographies
2016 Oct 07 - Added list of Emancipation and Servitude records
2016 Sep 22 - Added more 1894 biographies
2016 Aug 21 - Added school history resource and extraction
2016 Jul 23 - Restored Tower Grove cemetery
2016 Jun 19 - Restored postcard, photo, and Kimmel family photo
2016 May 15 - Added biography of Rev. Robert Reid
2016 Apr 19 - Added biography of Samuel Rees
2016 Mar 31 - Added off site Digital Public Library of America resource
2016 Feb 21 - Thanks to Cheryl Rothwell, added Primitive Baptist Church resource links
2016 Jan 30 - Added Revolutionary War extraction

2015 Dec 27 - Restored some Ava and Easterly files
2015 Sep 06 - Added a few obituaries and newspaper tidbits
2015 Aug 22 - Added more 1912 History of Southern IL excerpts
2015 Jul 03 - Added more 1894 biographies
2015 May 13 - Added Snyder and Beshears family charts
2015 Feb 08 - Added some pictures
2015 Jan 31 - Added some military lists

2014 Nov 24 - Added some St Andrew's cemetery info
2014 Jul 04 - Added 1916 1950 deaths, 1912 history excerpts, and more 1894 bios
2014 Jun 30 - Added more 1894 biographies and links to census at FamilySearch site
2014 May 23 - Added marriages
2014 May 11 - Added a variety
2014 May 10 - Thanks to Lynn Tooley, added 1850 Mortality Schedule images
2014 Apr 15 - New County Coordinator, Norma Hass, implemented new design courtesy of veteran GenWeb coordinator Marsha Bryant of Templates in Time


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