Volunteers Needed
Help!! Help!! Help!!
This
is the home
for all 102 counties for the State of Illinois in
which everyone has numerous ancestors buried in one or more cemeteries,
whether well cared for or not. My main goal is to put as many
online here for easy look-ups & reference for other people to enjoy,
contribute, submit tombstone photos, information on persons buried in
cemeteries, abandoned ones will be mostly on the endangered cemetery
pages. I also need to find the time to update said page.
Beings there are 102
counties in the State of Illinois it is going to be a little hard for
just little old me to make all these web pages but for now I'm trying to
get tombstone photos from the counties online and to preserve them
forever here my little space.
If
you would care to adopt
a county
email me
which county you are interested in. I can sure use the help in
making web pages as they take time. any of them are up for adoption. I
have some with online links with more of them to come in the foreseen
future.
One
is actually adopted and online at this site and I would really like to
Thank Elizabeth Davis for all the work she has been doing on Vermilion
County, with the cemetery listings, her tombstone photo work is just
great. Visit her link below to see what a great job she has done
and continues to do.
Other online link which has been
much work for me & also for Kathy Mills. She typed, took tombstone
photos last summer while living in Quincy, IL. Now she lives in N.
C. and doing this for N. C. in the county she lives in. Sure miss
her. I'm still going through tombstone photos I took last summer & fall
while visiting my friend in Clayton & Kathy in Quincy and now a new trip
I just took down to see Pat. Pat is one of the people you will see
with my daughter Kate, my now 4year old great-nephew in some of the
tombstone photos. They are all a big help.-------- But if someone out
there would like to adopt the Adams county site or co-host with me I
would be most grateful-------and with more contributions from me as I
visit there quite frequently feel free to
email me and be sure to visit the
link below.
January 28, 2008, I have taken the adopt me
out of the county table below. It was just too much for me every time I
looked at the page. If there is not a county page adjoining this
Illinois Saving Graves County Cemetery listings page for the 102
counties in our State then I will eventually make one.
The counties I know for
sure which are adopted are Stark & Peoria, by Karen Hammer hosted
elsewhere, I do have a county page here with photos I've taken as a
result of my growing up in Stark Co., IL., Vermillion Co., IL by
Elizabeth
Hinton Genealogy
Research.
many
different counties but not all cemeteries for said counties.
Illinois National Cemeteries
Contributions to all counties in
IL most welcome. Need tombstone photos, cemetery information, lets here
from you out. there. Click on my hand and send them in. Thanks I thank &
your ancestors will too when we find them if you are having trouble.
comments,
suggestions, contributions, complaints
Also you are welcome to join in our:
click on below to
be added to the update mailing list & what's happening around the state
of Illinois. All members & posts are approved by your host, Foxie, so if
not posted immediately this is why. I would like names when being asked
to join, county, Thanks for your coorporation in this matter helps to
keep down spammers.
Click to join ilsavinggraves
IllinoisSavingGraves
click to join & see what else we are
doing.
If you
have readable photos of grave markers in Illinois please consider
contributing them to our photo project.
I will accept one photo or an entire cemetery of photos.
I am accepting your tombstone
photo's. To submit them please include the county name and the
name of the cemetery in the subject line
attach your .jpg photo to and email and press send. Thanks so much for
your help.
Let's
fill these pages with your wonderful tombstone photos from all over our
Great State of Illinois!!! Don't forget let me know of abandoned &
neglected cemeteries. If we don't do something about them now they will
soon be gone & lost to us forever.
News!!!
Karen Hammer who hosted Peoria & Stark Co., IL AHGP sites and then
helped with the IL Saving Graves info for those same counties has pulled
her sites. I do not know why I was told by a mutual friend of a mutual
friend!!
Foxie!!!
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Online here @ Illinois Saving Graves but still might need a host. Thanks
for all your help!! Trying to get an online county page for each county
and this is not an easy task to behold. But I will prevail. Then I
expect to hear from fellow camera people out there who are traveling
around the this great state of Illinois. Thanks so much every one. Will
help we will surely fill out many many many pages filled with tombstone
photos. May need to hire me a secretary.
Foxie's Note: The Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library offers a newspaper lookup service & will send you
copies of the original obituaries listed below for a small fee -- 2
obits for a $1.00 for Illinois residents $10.00 for out of state --
check out their information by clicking on this link
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/ishlgen.htm
here to serve you. 
