RESEARCH
DOCUMENTS
How to efficiently use these collections for
research:
When doing research at LCGHS bring a flash drive to record your
findings.
When searching these
collections at the LCGHS, open a
blank word document. Into this,
copy and paste the lines from the
indexes so that you do not have to
jump back & forth from the indexes to the digital images. Be
sure to add the title of the
collection so you do not get
confused about which collection they come from. Once you have
that list, move to each digitized collection, find the pages
referenced in the index & read each article. If the researcher
thinks the article contains significant information to add to
their research, copy & paste the article to the flash drive. If
there is not enough time for the researcher to get through all
of the hard copy collections, & these digital collections, just
print a copy of the Indexes for them to take home.
You may email the
Society if they want to know more about any the items in the
indexes.
You will find that the
newspaper images have a name that identifies the source.
1884 1027 p5 LH
identifies the image as being from the
Lincoln Herald, October 27, 1884, p5.
This
document name format keeps the issues & articles in
chronological order.
note: pdf files take a longer to access - please be
patient
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below are password protected
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A current LCGHS membership is required.
0 Regan
Collection digitized with Index:
The Regan Collection is a set of 36
binders of newspaper clippings covering the years 1859 to about
1912. It was compiled by John Regan, a retired attorney from
Decatur, IL. This portion of his collection covers many of the
Logan County Newspapers. It contains a wealth of information.
Mr. Regan passed away in 2020 at the age of 109. This collection
was digitized &
indexed by Bill Donath, volunteer
for the Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society. This
collection has two levels of index. There is an index showing
which volumes in which a given name is referenced. Once that is
determined, opening the proper volume leads to an index that
gives the page numbers on which a given name occurs. Some of the
volumes have as many as 500 pages.
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The
Logan County War History Committee Collection
... 1919
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Roots & Branches
Issues
R&B-Index
1979 - 2018, Winter 2019
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Lincoln Herald
Lincoln, Illinois
Index 1858 - 1869
Index 1870 - 1873
Index 1917 - 1920
... This
collection was compiled by Bill Donath. These indexes were
completed over several years from the microfilm copies of
the Lincoln Herald. Not all the years are represented, but
this is an every-name index for the existing issues. The
newspapers referenced in this index are not digitized. The
researcher will need to contact LCGHS to have a volunteer
access the microfilm. The index has been constructed to
include the name of the person, issue date, page number,
column number, & article title.
This, we hope, will speed up the process to find what you
are looking for.
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Lincoln Courier - Monthly
Issues:
Courier News: Nov, 1956 --> 1964
Courier News: 1974 - 1982
Courier News: 1992 - 2000
Courier News: 2010 - 2017 (News
and/or Obits)
Courier Obits: 1956 --> 2017
... This collection was built and indexed by Bill Minch,
originally from the Emden area. Bill now lives in Texas.
He worked on the project by getting microfilm from the
Lincoln Presidential Library at Springfield, IL, through
interlibrary loan. He had to stop when the ALPL stopped
participating in the Library loan service. In the index
you will find that Bill has columns for Date of Issue,
Name of Deceased, Date of Death, and Parents & Spouse,
if the information is available in the obituary. |
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Lincoln Courier:
Obituaries,
1956 - 2017
Obituaries notices (articles), 1956 - 2017
Obituaries, 1988 - 2013
Obituaries,
1985 - 2013
Marriages &
Obituaries, 2011 - 2013
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Obituaries
- Lincoln Courier
(1985 - 2013)
0 Logan Co. Records: Births / Deaths ... 1878 - 1915
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Middletown Ledger 1917-1919
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This index of the
Middletown Ledger newspaper contains
vital statistics on birth, marriage and death
updated -->
MIDDLETOWN
LEDGER 1917-1920
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Will Index
0 Atlanta Argus: 1917-1919
... updated -->
Atlanta Argus 1917 - 1920
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Logan County ILGenWeb
Logan County
On-Line Book Access
Logan County Facts
Mt. Pulaski
Obituaries & Military Cemetery Rites
The
Logan County War History Committee Collection
... 1919
RESEARCH REQUEST
FORM
Logan County Cemetery Index ...
(compiled by Bill Detmers, 2013)
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Includes the names of the taxpayers
of the county, as returned by the
assessors of the townships for the current year,
& is arranged
under one
alphabet, to save
the trouble of consulting several alphabets when the town, city,
or village in which a person
resides is
not known.
Pioneer
Certificate
(for direct descendents of early settlers of
Logan County)
SEARCH ENGINES:
ILLINOIS LINKS
ILGenWeb References Project
Illinois History Information and Links
GENWEB LINKS
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
Coming Next
The Shew Collection:
In 2017, nearly eight
hundred issues of the Lincoln Herald from 1873-1882, 1884, 1889,
1894, 1895, were found in the attic of a building that was a
jewelry store. The Shew family was gracious enough to donate the
papers to LCGHS. That started a five-year journey to humidify,
sanitize, flatten, clean, digitize & index the papers. This
project will be complete by the fifth anniversary of the
donation in November 2022. Many of the stories found in the
Society’s quarterly, Roots &
Branches, are coming from this
collection. The most recent being the series of articles telling
the story of the history & development of the Union Cemetery at
Lincoln, IL, - in the Spring Issue of 2022.
website: http://www.logancoil-genhist.org
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~illcghs/
E-mail address:
lcghs1@hotmail.com
