For a current list of What's New, please check the top of our Home Page
October 2009
- We have 23
photos from the Old
Carter Cemetery, thank you Jake Carter - We have
information on the George Hurst Family
under Queries - Information on the Revolutionary Soldier,
Hugh Johnson has been
including a photo
of his tombstone - Thanks to
for
translating the St.
Boniface Catholic Church Burial Records. This
listing
contains over 2,780 records
September 2009
- Thanks to John Ratermann for submitting a couple
of
obituaries: Caroline Kuhls
and Joseph
Kuhls - Special thanks to Hilda
Brueggemann, Cathy Rakers,
,
,
and Dorothy Falk
for an all
version of St
Boniface Cemetery with 2,394 names, 569 maiden
names, and 1,962 photos
by
,
Gloria, and Dorothy.
August 2009
- We have a
category
on our photo album - Postcards - Our Guestbook
has been
for security changes. If you
experience any problems, please contact the Webmaster - We have a
Query
with information on Amanda
Ammons and seeking more information - Seeking information on the
photo,
possibly of Theo
Beckman
Marriage
Records from St
Rose Catholic Church - this completes the series of records
translated by Nancy Moss - a big THANK YOU- Based on the information in the Chronicles of
Aviston, we have
our
Sugar Creek
Township Cemetery Index by adding Stroot Grave Yard. If
anyone has additional information on this grave yard, please Contact Us - We have
our Privacy
Policy and added
a
description of our Privacy
Policy for Cemeteries
July 2009
- The St
Dominic/St Augustine Cemetery Listing has been
with some info from descendants and obituaries
Confirmation
records from St John United Church of Christ in Trenton- More
records from Nancy Moss: St Rose
Catholic Church Death Records - Ever wonder what surnames people are looking for on
clinton.ilgenweb.net? We have a
Monthly Search Reports
display page
Baptism
Records from St Rose Catholic Church transcribed from Latin
by Nancy Moss
June 2009
- Thanks to Nancy and John Moss we have an all
listing
for the St
Rose Catholic Cemetery - Area cemetery takes ‘patrons’ on
first-come, first-served basis - a
newspaper
article on the St
Rose Catholic Cemetery - We have over 7,500 photos of tombstones in our Photo Gallery with 680
ones of St Rose Catholic
Cemetery in St Rose, thanks to John
and Nancy Moss! - This a
index page with added spam
blocking features thanks to coding from Dirk Paehl and
.
Please
contact us
if
it gives you any problems. - Our Lookup
Volunteers page has been
to
include information on purchasing the Trenton Woman's Club's projects Trenton’s Past in Our Presence
by Loretta Cope Strake and A
Community Photo Album of Trenton, Illinois - There was an error in our photo
gallery software that prevented uploads. The software has
been
and hopefully the problem has been
solved.
May 2009
- Please see this
Query
about the ROWEKAMP and
SCHUETTE families - Our search provider (FreeFind.com) appears to be having technical difficulties. Please see our Search Engine page for other options to search this site.
- Carlyle
City Cemetery has been
through
the surnames up to Hi. This is an ongoing project to add some recent
burials from obituaries. - Have you checked our
Photo Gallery? We have photos of
over 6,800 tombstones plus hundreds of other photos and documents
A photo and the names of the Aviston Centennial
Executive Committee and the committee chairmen
April 2009
- St
John's UCC Cemetery has been
with
additional information on the FLADER (KOCH) burials - Thanks to John Raterman, we have a
Photo Gallery of
Bridges - Please see the
Query
seeking information about
the Virgil GUTZWILLER (1842-1885) family and also seeking a tombstone
photo from St.
Mary's Cemetery - There is a
Photo Gallery of
Orrell Burying Ground and the Orrell Burying
Ground Inventory has been updated - We have
the information on Raymond C.
ROBERTS on our People Who
Served in World War II pages - Please see the
Query looking for living
relatives of Raymond C. ROBERTS, a Clinton County man killed in action
in World War II.
March 2009
- Trenton
Cemetery has been
with a couple of death records and
information about a Civil War prisoner - The Aviston
Business Chronicle is a
addition
to the Aviston Centennial
Book - Corrected a problem that caused several dates to be missing or wrong in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery and St Dominic/St Augustine Cemetery
- Several
RAKERS obituaries and one
WELLEN
obituary have been added thanks to Shirley Rakers. Please check the Obituary L - Z Index - Thanks to Jerry Blaylock's reseach into obituaries,
we have started a project to update Carlyle City Cemetery.
Over the next few weeks we hope all of the inventories will be

- Please see this
Query and Notes
on John G. Wibberg including at least 7 different ways to
spell the surname WIEBERG - Bethlehem
Lutheran Cemetery in Ferrin has been
with an entry from an obituary - Thanks to John Ratermann, we have a whole
inventory
for St Dominic/St
Augustine Cemetery in Breese. It has been
through
2008!
The developers of our Photo Gallery
have created another update to prevent hacking, as a result, our links
back to the cemetery inventories no longer work. We are sorry for this
inconvenience but we cannot take a chance with the security of the site- The Chronicle
of
Aviston is a
addition to the Aviston Centennial Book
February 2009
- Daniel Oppliger is still looking for death records of
Abraham Jacob Oppliger and Anna Wyss Oppliger. He has
his
query - More
obituaries: Mary
Middendorff and Clinton Charles
Owens and an a
estate settlement for George
Anna Harrison
A
Map of Cemeteries in Clinton County. Click on the links on
the map to
go to the cemetery inventories- Special thanks to Carolyn Kress Dennis
for an
biography of Mary Darke Kain Slade Dennis.
Please take the time to read about this Clinton County pioneer - We have added a
obituary, Patti
Doza.
Our Photo
Gallery
software was hacked. We have installed a new version of the software,
tightened some security settings, and cleaned the hack. If any of these
changes cause you troubles, please contact Frankie Heinzmann- Another
Query.
Louis C. Burmeister is looking for information on
his great-great-grandfather, Johann Heinrich
BURMEISTER
Phyllis Kues Stroud has sent us a copy
of the Aviston Centennial
Souvenir Book and we have started to place it
on-line. - We have added a couple
publications and
our Lookup
Volunteers page - We have
and
added a couple of
items to our Miscellaneous Index - We have a
Query. Tom Lindsey is
looking for information on Benjamin
F. Lindsey, Amanda Ammons, and W. K. Lewis - The Tombstone
Photo Project continues to grow with photos of over 6,500
stones. We have created a
photo
album for Out
of County burials and invite you to upload photos of your
Clinton County relative's tombstones, wherever they are buried
January 2009
- Three
McGaffigan obituaries. See the Obituary Index L - Z - We owe a special thanks to Lucy (Toedte) Buchele and
her
sister Brenda Knipping. They have provided listings and photos
of
two
cemeteries in Brookside Township: Chambers Burial
Ground and Garrison
Grave Yard - We have started on a project to audit our cemetery
locations. We have just
the location of the Noe
Grave Yard in Irishtown Township - Thanks to the efforts of Kelly Isaak, Phyllis Hanke,
Gloria Dettleff and Dorothy Falk, we have another
cemetery
listing, Matsler
Cemetery in Clement Township south of Huey - Ammons
Cemetery location has been
and
Wilton
Cemetery has been
with
an additional burial record - The Photo Index
has been
and a
photo and
newspaper article has been added on
Dorothea RASCH KROST - We've added
obituraries for Paul
Coigny, Dorothea
Rasch Krost, and Maude
J Krost - We've added a
'step'/resource to our Obituary Index
Photo of the Carlyle High
School Class of 1938 (click photo to enlarge) -- Thanks
Regina!- Happy New Year and welcome to our slightly redesigned homepage. Please give us your comments and suggestions for 2009 by signing our Guestbook
- The Photo Gallery is now being partially indexed by search engines. Still, the best way to Search the Gallery is with its built in tool.
December 2008
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and welcome to our slightly redesigned homepage. Please give us your comments and suggestions for 2009 by signing our Guestbook
- Our Tombstone Photo Project continues to grow with over 6,500 photos on-line
- Thanks to Photos
from John Ratermann and much effort from our volunteers, the St. John's UCC Cemetery
listing has been partially

- In addition to the Cemetery Photos, we have recently added several General and School Photos. Unfortunately, the Photo Gallery is not currently being indexed by any search engines but you can Search the Gallery with its built in tool.
A listing of the Poor Farm Cemetery
in Carlyle Township.
Description of the Burnside
Burial Site in Section 22 of Irishtown township.- The link to the Allen Cemetery in Irishtown township was repaired.
- Here is your Christmas Present - a
Cemetery Index complete
with a Search Engine
dedicated to cemeteries - We have
several
items on both our Misc.
and Links pages.
November 2008
- Some of the information on the names of Names of Places in and around
Clinton County has been

- The Barker
Cemetery in Brookside Township has been
with results from a BEST Family Visit.
Rev Brett
Best invites BEST / BASS family researchers to contact him. - Have you looked at the Photo Gallery? We have over 5,000 photos and still growing!
listing - Knolhoff Cemetery
south of Hoffman in Lake township thanks to Phyllis Hanke,
Gloria
Dettleff and Dorothy Falk. Listing includes links to Photos!- We have a
Death
Record Index linking you to thousands of new records
on-line. We now have the State of Illinois complete listing of Pre-1916 Death Records
and the complete listing of the 1916
- 1950 Death Records.
The 4-Score Club.
A newspaper article about Elvinia and Jerry Yardley.- Help us identify the teacher and students in this
1917 Photo of the
Boulder School. - The Pritchett
Cemetery listing has been
with information provided by
Russel and Sandra Bright. They also provided Photos. - The Shoal
Creek Baptist - Potts Cemetery has been
with information from Nancy Seefeldt
and Jeanie
Potts
Nolte including Photos!
