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Ann Stoddard This website is only as good as you make it! Volunteer to help today. You can 1) add your family records 2) photograph grave markers in Montgomery County 3) link records already on this site 4) visit the court house, collect and share documents that are of interest to you and will most likely help others....If you need assistance in getting started, let me know....

New Member Relationships

♦ Mancel Lyerla is the 2x Great Uncle of member: Kathy Contreras
♦ Marjorie Dal Canton is the Great Aunt of member: Cheryl Chapman
♦ Jacob Lyerla is the 2x Great Uncle of member: Kathy Contreras
♦ Catherine Schwartz is the Other - (See Note) of member: Sarah Lindemann
♦ Hubert Cress is the Great Uncle of member: Polley Lawrence
♦ Henry Cress is the Great Grandfather of member: Polley Lawrence
♦ Etta Cress is the Great Aunt of member: Polley Lawrence
♦ Clara Cress is the Great Aunt of member: Polley Lawrence
♦ Catharine Cress is the 3x Great Grandmother of member: Polley Lawrence
♦ Catherine Cress is the 2x Great Grandmother of member: Polley Lawrence
To link your family members to your profile: Locate a family member in the Cemetery Database. On the right side of the page click the green plus sign in the "My Relationship" box. Select your relationship from the drop down list then click the select button.

Historical Society of Montgomery County Illinois

  • March 03

  • Tracy Wells Judy Maxwell Would like to know if you are decendant of Sarah Maxwell
    about 3 months ago

  • March 02

  • Lindsey Neas Jeffrey B. Dunn Jeff, I'll contact you toward the end of the month. Thanks. Lindsey Neas
    about 3 months ago

  • Margaret Brunette Historical Society I wish to thank everyone for their assistance in finding the burial places of the Myers and Bost families.
    about 3 months ago

  • March 01

  • Marsha Hopkins Mary Mathews I just found your picture of Lucy Tyler Thompson-Rainey She is my gg grandmother through mom's Line Dorcas Rainey-Myers;Marshall Rainey:GW Rainey I sure would like to tald genealogy with you as I am aDAR member and would love to get a handle on the Thompsons. I'm at Carlyle where they are from.
    about 3 months ago

  • Terri Lambing Harkey House Museum I am coming to town and would like to find out how I can schedule an appointment to tour the Harkey House. Can anyone help me out with this? Thank you!
    about 3 months ago
    • Jeffrey B. DunnYou would need to let us know the specific date and time. We would need to see if we can find someone to meet you there.
      9:50 PM March 01

  • February 29

  • Lindsey Neas Jeffrey B. Dunn Jeff, I'd like to follow up my visit to Oak Grove last summer if the weather holds, and continue working on the headstones in the Rutledge plot in section 43-1. Do any upcoming weekends look good? Lindsey Neas
    about 3 months ago
    • Jeffrey B. DunnI'm working on a database project for a company and for at least the next 4 weeks and probably longer I won't be available at all during the day. Let's wait until next month and see what my schedule looks like.
      9:53 PM March 01

  • February 27

  • Jeffrey B. Dunn Carol McGlasson Thanks for adding all the Drew family info for Irving Cemetery. I wrote some scripts that look for matching records on the web site. It worked good for the Drew family. All of their records are linked together. -Jeff
    about 3 months ago

  • February 23

  • Marjorie Bailey Hugh Keen Hello. I have a family group sheet by Mildred Smith of Henry Hill Sr. family, Peter Bruns Hill is the 7th child. Also obits & group sheet of Peter Jackson Hill and his wife, obit of Grover Lafayett Hill. Jim May on this site also has Hill info. Send a SASE to Doyle Public Library, P. O. Box 544, Raymond, IL 62560 for copies.
    about 3 months ago
    • Hugh KeenMarjorie,
      Thanks for your help on my research. This is definitely the right Hill family. Does your information show any contact info for Mildred Smith? Thanks again.
      Hugh Keen
      10:36 PM February 23

  • February 20

  • teri voss Jim May Hi Jim - Just saw your pic of the Irving baseball team. Wondering if I could get a jpg emailed? Ed Walz is my great uncle and I have a few other baseball pics of him playing for Hillsboro that I'm happy to share - my email is terivoss@comcast.net
    about 3 months ago
    • Jim MayI sent you an e-mail. It included some large files of the scans. Let me know if it doesn't show up in your inbox.
      11:36 AM February 21

  • February 18

  • Margaret Brunette Historical Society Looking for ancestors of James H. Myers and Celecta? Also, Arthur Garfield Myers and Ethel Tessmer.
    about 3 months ago

  • February 15

  • Robert Halverson John Anderson Hello, I am currently working on the Bote/Anderson/Rollo lines as my grandmother was adopted by Gladys Anderson / Robert Rollo. Her name was June (Rollo) Werner. Anything you could send me on the family lines would be much appreciated. Thank you.
    about 4 months ago

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Web Site Credits

There are a few people that each spent thousands of hours making this web site possible.

Jeff Dunn - Hillsboro Illinois
Web Site Programming, Databases, Cemetery Records

Ann Stoddard - Los Angeles California
Obituaries, Cemetery, Land and Birth Records

David Singer - Sarasota Florida
Census Records

Sandy Leitheiser - Montgomery County Clerk & Staff
Veteran, Marriage and Death Records

These four people provided more than 600,000 records and photos on this web site.

We would also like to thank the hundreds of other people that added photos and other information to the web site. This is a group project and we need your contributions too. If you have any questions or have information to contribute feel free to contact any of us.

The Forgotten Cemeteries

Forgotten Cemeteries of Montgomery County Illinois
 
The Forgotten Cemeteries title is in tribute to all the cemetery readings done by Walter Sanders and his high school students in the 1940's. Hopefully we can carry on the tradition and work together to locate and read all the abandoned cemeteries in Montgomery County!

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