Updates to Cook County Illinois Genealogy Trails

[There have been many updates made to the site over the years, these are just the most recent ones...]


Aug 2011:
Obits for FITZGERALD, HICKEY, BACKUS, DERBY
Crime News for BUCKLEY
Bios for FAY, GORDON, GUNDERSON, HARRIS, PARDRIDGE, SHURLY, SMITH, STEVENS

July 2011:
bios for LAUER, GEORGE
obits for NIEMINSKI, EDGERTON, FITZGERALD
FIORAVANTI burial info in Holy Sepulchre Cem.
Civil War vet info added to our Hillside Cemetery listings

June 2011:
ANDROS, ROBERTS, JADE, CARTER, DOUGLAS, JOHNSON obits;LOUNSBURY will; Various news items on our database

April 2011:
Obit for HOLCOMB, TAMKIN, BOLONGY, JOHNSON, CABUAER, MANTHEY, DUGAN. Death Cert. info of HIRSCHPOLE; History of Summit/Argo with map of Robert's Park Subdivision

March 2011:
Birth info for WALKER, HELLER, MACLEISH, RATZ, SCHULTZ, SOMMERLATH, TOWSE, TUTTLE, HIBARD, HOYT
obituaries for: William Butler, Green Berry Raum & Peter Bourgade, William Musham, Edna Conley and Clifton Williams, Irene Clark, Janus Tokowitz, Richard Marion Dombrowski, Dorothy Michler, A.W. Enos, Dr. Silva Schleiter-Doede, Adler, Barrett, Conklin, Conners, Dunning, Ebert, Green, Haser, Hoyne, Kantor, Metz, Owen, O'Malley, O'Neil, Alvin Winchell, Wm. St. Clair, Thomas Carey & Phillipps
McDougal, Hopkins, Whitehouse, Hibard

burials for Robert Kupka in Bohemian National Cemetery; Robert Porter in Lincoln Cemetery, multiple burials for Rosehill Cemetery
amd other information for multiple cemeteries; burial information for
Palos Oak Hill cemetery along with 2 new burials; 2 photos added to Lyonsville Cemetery; over 900 burials for St. Boniface;
new information for the following cemeteries : Bachelor Grove, Bill Funks Cemetery, Cooper Cemetery,  German Methodist Cemetery, Old German Methodist, Orland Park,  Orland Township Methodist, Sauerbier Family Cemetery, Tinley Park Mental Health Cemetery,  Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery & Zion Cemetery

death certificate info for Christine Gibbs, Claude Ferguson, Albert Dunavan, Laura Collins & Francis Collins Sr. & Jr. ,

biographies for Matilda Carse, Clara Chapin, Ella Dark, Marlon Dunham, Mattie Freeman, Linda Gilbert, Anne Giles, Hulda Graser, Katherine Grinnell, Mary Haven, Frac Hawes, Sarepta Henry, Harriet Ayer, Blanche Bagley, Frances Barnes, Clara Bates, Eugenie Birkholz, Emily Blackall, Emily Buckwell, Myra Bradwell, John Ames

draft card for William Butler
marriage license for Collins/Schabes
marriage notice for Seely/McBride; FENWICK-BRUMSEY, SOPER-FISH

news articles on the following: Max Perrot, a unknown dead man & Andrew Babrich
news articles involving Edward Herring & Theodore Stensland
news article about August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, Gerge Engle, Louis Lingg, and Oscar Neibe
articles involving Sullivan/Ryan/Hayes and the  Chicago River being set on fire

obituaries for Antonio Corsiglia, Millicent Corsiglia, William Urban, Clare Urban, Mildred Ciskoski, Raymond Ciskoski, Marie Ciskoski & Paulina Ciskoski, Evangeline Van Dorsten., John  O'Connor, David Braun & Herbert Follinger; Norman Kluessner & a marriage notice for Kluessner/Olsen

Burials for the following cemeteries: Sacred Heart - Snyder; Skokie Memorial Park- Johnson; Montrose - Snyder/Rausch/Carlson; Queen of Heaven Cemetery - Snyder & Graceland - Cinader; burial record for Johanna Sindewald in Bethania Cemetery, 2 burials for Mt. Greenwood Cemetery - Brodt and Ovens 

May 14, 2010:

1916-1920 St. Anne's Nursing School class list with pictures

April 15, 2010:

7 pages of the Chicago 1880 Mortality census

April 6, 2010:

obituaries for Edward Cooke, Roswell Mason & Albert Magruder, Adolph Thies

March 2010:

obituaries for Brundage, Buechel & Lowther, Roebuck, Nelson, Rocol, Garrity, Rempert, Reinhardtsen, Tharaldsen, Rapp, Andrus, Mittelstaedt, Kluessner, Abarbanel, Pantke &  Hyink

Feb 2010:
Obits for SOTH, SIMON, GINSBERG, PREMAK, SILVERMAN, HEINZEN, BUSSE, KORFF; burials for FERTIG, HUSLIK, DAVIDSON, STRYKER, CAREY --- and a bunch more were added 2/22

Jan 2010:
Obits for BARBIER, COOKE, COX, DEAK, FALEK, HEINZEN, JENSON, LIVER, MAACK, O'BRIEN, OHLENDOLF, RICKMAN, SCHILLING, SCHMIDT, SMITH, SELL, SHIPBAUGH, SIMON, SOUHRADA, STERN, STUCKART, STYLES, SUTTER, THARALDSEN, VOPICKA, WINIARZ; Burials in Graceland Cemetery, Queen of Heaven, Mt. Carmel, Lithuanian Cemetery; bio for SOUHRADA; Birth announcements for BOYD, Crime News for GOODMAN, BONFIELD, SCHAACK

 Nov 2009:

RINKENBERGER, WERNO, WEISS, WAGNER, MITTELSTAEDT, KLEIMINGER, SCHEUNEMAN, KLINE Death notices; Deer Park Cemetery Burials

Oct 2009:

Obits for OPIELINSKI, OPALEWSKI, STREZESZEWSKI, LANKTREE, STERN, JOHNSON, SOTH, KOLB, AMLING, BAUMANN, THOME, MYRICK, CUNNINGHAM, GARRITY, CRAIG, BOHRINGER
Death Information for MAYERLE, TEN EYCK
Marriage announcements for SANDVOSS-AMLING, LINEBERGER-AMLING
BIRREN burial data in St. Boniface Cem.; Marriage announcements for SANDVOSS-AMLING; LINEBERGER-AMLING; MAYERLE, TEN EYCK death info

Sep 2009:

SCHWENK, PETERS, NAUMANN obits.; Crime News, 50th Anniv. for PETERS, Birth announcement for BECK, HOLLE Divorce

Aug 2009:

BLACK, BUCHALKA, BOHRINGER, WILSON obits. BABEU death cert. info

July 2009:

More obits - RUNGE, DIRIAN, WILES, BERGELIN, CHRISTIANSEN, SHELDON, MORRIS, MADDEN; Biographies for POWELL, AMLING, HYINK, DIRIAN, RUNGE, BUSSE

May 2009:

Chicago Fire "Cow" Story refuted; History of Riverview Park (Amusement park on Chicago's Northside from 1904-1967); Obits for TINNEY, EDWARDS, FOWLER, MURRAY, LEWIS, MURPHY, O'HARA, HEMSTREET, MESENBRINK, HERBECK, WESDZUNAS, WARAKOIS, RECU, GINSBURG, SHARP, FIVISH, DOUGLAS, BUSSE, FROEMLING, WADE, MOYNIHAN, Crime News, Divorce news items; Anniversary Party News Items; 1871-72 Rush College Graduates; 1871-72 Rush Medical Faculty; Bios for RUNGE, BUSSE, AMLING

April 2009:

Bios for Ohlendorf, Duensing; Obits for ROSENWALK, KROGER, YESCHEK, SHERMAN, WILLIAMS, SHIPBAUGH, SHELDON, MCMILLAN, MCCORMICK; History Of Julia Gay United Methodist Church

March 2009:

NASH, RICKMAN; ATWOOD, BAER, BIRD, BRITTON, CAMP, COOK, FISH, FITZER, GOODRICH, GREGORY, HAYNES, HILLS, HOYT, LEARY, LOMBARD, LUDINGTON, MINOR, MOTT, NICHOLSON, O'CONOR, RAMSEY, SKINKLE, SMITH, TENNIS, VESPA, WALKER, WHITNEY, ZORICH, ZOUB obits

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