VOLUME XXVII September October 2006 No. 1

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1 NEWS FROM THE NORTHWEST Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists P.O. Box AC, Mount Prospect, Illinois ISSN VOLUME XXVII September October 2006 Meeting Location: Forest View Educational Center 2121 South Goebbert Road (Turn south at Golf and Goebbert) Room 100, Arlington Heights, Illinois Meetings start at 7:30 pm Meetings are now on Tuesdays! District, will present this program about immigration voyages. Tuesday, September 19, 2006 It Wasn t A Cruise Ship presented by Marian Richter Schuetz Marian Richter Schuetz, an instructor of genealogy at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, and the Naperville Park As a speaker she has presented programs at local, state, and national conferences, seminars, and workshops as well as at societies, guilds, museums, and heritage fairs. She is currently serving as Past-President on the Illinois State Genealogical Society board. Mrs. Schuetz was honored as the first recipient of The Outstanding Service Award presented by the Fox Valley Genealogical Society. Mrs. Schuetz has been featured in articles published in the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, and the Sun newspapers. Her television appearances include The Family Heritage Program and Fox Valley Today. Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Linda Herrick presents Old German Script Can Be Read Linda Herrick is the co-owner of Origins, a genealogy book and supply store in Janesville, WI. She has been researching her German and Danish ancestors for many years. Linda and her business partner, Wendy Uncapher, have authored many books and published many more on Wisconsin, German, and general genealogy topics. German publications include the new Atlantic Bridge to Germany series and Maps & Facts for German Genealogy. Besides speaking, Linda teaches genealogy classes and has been on the board of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, the German-Interest Group-Wisconsin, and the Rock County Genealogical Society where she is also the newsletter editor. Visit our website at

2 Calendar of Events September 2006 Sep. 28 Thursday Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project with Peggy Tuck Sinko: a reference work about the creations and boundary changes of every county in the US. 7:30 pm. Kane County Genealogical Society in Geneva. Visit Sep. 30 Saturday Journey into Genealogy featuring Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. Presented by Fox Valley Genealogical Society. Problem solving, finding females, assembling ancestors. Grace United Methodist Church in Naperville. Contact Fox Valley Genealogical Society: phone Visit October 2006 Oct. 7 Saturday Tour the Belgian community in Logan Square, Chicago, with Christina Reynen. Meet at St. John Berchmans Church, 2517 West Logan Boulevard, Chicago, 1:30 pm. Chicago Genealogical Society. Oct. 9 Monday Genealogist s Introduction to WorldCat by Sarah Kirby, Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society. Meeting at 7 pm, Fremont Township Public Library in Mundelein, IL. Oct. 10 Tuesday Using Bygones to Organize Your Family History Research with Beverly Smallwood at Schaumburg Twp District Library Genealogy Group. Meeting at 7:30 pm. Contact Tony Kierna Oct. 12 Thursday Beginner's Help in Genealogy with Everett Huff at Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 7 pm. Registration required. Call Oct. 13 Friday Using Ancestry and Heritage Quest at the Library McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society at Algonquin Public Library, 7pm: Oct 14 Saturday Dealing with Family Skeletons in One s Family Tree, by Craig Pfannkuche. 2 pm at Glenview Public Library on 1930 Glenview Road, the North Suburban Genealogical Society. Oct. 14 Saturday The Illinois State Genealogical Society's Fall Conference Footsteps to the Past: Making Tracks Through Research will feature Eric Basir, Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, Margaret Kapustiak, Sandra Luebking, Brother Joseph Martin, Paul Milner, Dan Niemiec, and Martin Tuohy. Registration information at Oct. 18 Wednesday Finding Your Ancestors When They Are Hiding, with Kathy Park. DuPage County History Museum in Wheaton, at 7:30 pm: DuPage County IL Genealogical Society. Visit Oct. 21 Saturday The 3 G's: GIS, GPS and Genealogy presented by Gerry Czadowski at CAGG-NI. Introduction to GIS Geographic Information System, and GPS, Global Positioning System: Oct. 26 Thursday Organizing Your Genealogy with Becky Higgins. At Kane County Genealogical Society. Meeting at Geneva History Center in Geneva at 7:30 pm. November 2006 Nov. 4 Saturday The Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society announces its 14th Annual Workshop, Records from Far and Near, featuring Claire Mire Bettag, Dan Niemiec and Jeanne Larzalere Bloom. Visit their website for details. Nov. 11 Saturday Italian Records by Linda Fortunato-Davenport at Schaumburg Public Library, 10:30 am. PIP- POINTers in Person Italian Genealogy Group. Visit Nov. 18 Saturday Quarter Sessions with Paul Milner, 10 am to Noon. BIGWILL-British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois, Grace Lutheran Church in Richmond: Future Events Feb. 13, 2007 Tuesday Tracing the 20th Century Immigrant, Dr. Paul Valasek, Schaumburg Twp. Dist. Library Genealogy Group, 7 pm, Tony Kierna:

3 Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists P.O. Box AC Mount Prospect, Illinois Website: The Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists (NWSCG) promotes the study of genealogy and history, conducts programs and workshops, and assists members in the study of family history. News From the Northwest is a benefit of membership. Our newsletter is published bimonthly, September through May, with a surname index at year-end. Meetings are held at 7:30 pm on the third Tuesday of September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and May. The meeting location is at Forest View Educational Center, 2121 South Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights, IL, Officers and Committee Chairs President: Dan Wertz st VP Program Chair: Teresa McMillin nd VP Membership Chair: Rita Hodgetts Recording Secretary: Juanita Bryan Corresponding Secretary: Ruth Kramer Treasurer: Margaret Bauer Past President: Ron Krambeer Librarian: Janis O Keefe Publicity: Janet Hall Historian: Marilyn Hallman Auditor: Rodger Kruse Website: Zoe Mather Newsletter Editor: Donna Vallas Distribution Coordinator: Janet Hall Publications: Adeline Kruse Projects: Ron Krambeer Ways & Means: Ron Krambeer Please credit NWSCG for reproduced articles. We also welcome articles from members. Please send inquiries, address changes, and correspondence to our address above. News From the Council From the President s Desk Summer is just about over, leaves will start to turn color and fall, the weather will get cooler, and the NWSCG will kick off its new program year with some exciting new topics and speakers. Please join us on Tuesday, September 19th to hear Marian Richter Schuetz describe what our immigrant ancestors really went through to cross that big pond, the Atlantic Ocean. Please note that our meeting schedule for the coming year has been changed to the THIRD TUESDAY of each month, rather than the third Thursday due to scheduling conflicts with the District 214 School Board. If this is causing a problem for any of our members, please contact me. We have a busy schedule of genealogy conferences coming up soon. Fox Valley Genealogical Society is holding their Annual Conference on Saturday, Sept 30, in Naperville featuring Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, and the Illinois State Genealogical Society is holding their Fall Conference on Saturday, October 14th, in Itasca. More conferences are on the way. I hope you will make an effort to attend one or more of them. They are a great educational experience and an excellent opportunity to meet others interested in genealogy and local history. I look forward to seeing you all again this year. Please keep a look out for our newsletters and meeting announcements. You won t want to miss what we have planned. In addition, bring a friend, a neighbor, your significant other, your parents, or your older children there s no time like the present to get your kids interested in genealogy! Dan Wertz 3

4 The National Genealogical Society s 2006 Conference in the States By Teresa McMillin This past June, the National Genealogical Society (NGS) held its 2006 Conference in the States in Rosemont, IL at the Hyatt Regency O Hare. Held on June 7-10, it was entitled They Passed This Way. As many of you know, our society joined forces with seven other genealogical societies in the area to form a temporary group called the Chicagoland Genealogical Consortium. The purpose of this group was to help NGS with publicity, finding and organizing volunteers to run the event, help with registration, support the exhibitors and speakers, and other such tasks necessary to operate an event of this magnitude. The other societies in this consortium were: the Afro- American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, the British Interest Group of Chicago and Illinois (BIGWILL), the Computer Assisted Genealogical Group- Northern Illinois (CAG- NI), DuPage County Genealogical Society, Elgin Genealogical Society, Lake County Genealogical Society, and the Scottish Genealogy Group of the Illinois St. Andrew Society. The conference seems to have been a huge success. Including over 100 walk-in registrations, the total number of attendees was 1,138. Attendees could choose among 32 different topics each day. For an additional fee, people could partake in lunch and learn type sessions, where they could listen to a lecture while they enjoyed lunch. Between sessions, genealogists could visit the exhibit hall, which featured over 100 vendors. The Consortium also hosted an evening event, which included a dessert and coffee bar served to the soothing sounds of the Ken Chaney Xperience, a local jazz band. It was a very enjoyable evening. NGS was very pleased with the Consortium s many hours of planning and assistance. Usually a host society has well over a year to plan for an NGS conference. Our consortium did not even become an entity until about ten months prior to the conference. NGS admits that there was some skepticism on their part. But, thanks to the hard work of the Consortium members, the conference ran quite smoothly. We want to give a special thanks to all of those members of the Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists who volunteered before and during this event. Your help is much appreciated! They Passed This Way A s Family Tree Magazine reports, the turnout at this conference topped 2005 participation by roughly a third. Crowds cruising the exhibit hall caught wind of several new products, innovations and industry partnerships during the fourday event. Among them were the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who demonstrated the software developed for its FamilySearch Indexing effort. This endeavor aims to index the millions of records in its Family History Library. Volunteer indexers download batches of records and transcribe them in a spreadsheet-style interface. Read more about this at 4

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6 NWSCG Program Schedule Tuesday, September 19: Marian Richter Schuetz: It Wasn t a Cruise Ship Immigration Voyages Tuesday, October 17: Linda Herrick: Old German Script Can Be Read Tuesday, November 14 (the second Tuesday): George Valko: Basic Genetic Genealogy for Paper Trail Genealogists No meeting in December. Tuesday, January 16: Taped presentation by George Schweitzer: From Rivers to Trails to Roads to Canals to Trains, about migration across the US Tuesday, February 20: Dan Wertz: Family Tree Maker Advanced Topics Tuesday, March 20: Eric Basir: Efficient Scanning Techniques for Photos and Documents Tuesday, April 17: A speaker from the Chicago History Museum, formerly the Chicago Historical Society, to speak about the changes of the past year. Tuesday, May 15: Meeting begins at 7:00 pm. Helen Sclair: Make the Cemetery Your Friend Left to right: Margaret Bauer, Donna Vallas, Dan Wertz, Maria Collard, Adeline Kruse, Rodger Kruse, Evelyn Koons, and Ron Krambeer. Photo by Jim Girkins. Volunteers Read St. Matthews Cemetery A group of our members, under the direction of Ron Krambeer, met on May 20, 2006, at St. Matthew s Cemetery in Niles and took inventory, including pictures, of all the monuments and headstones located there. The majority of the work at the cemetery was done in one day, thanks to the beautiful weather and our tireless team. Others volunteers since then have spent many hours transcribing and proofreading the information. Ron Krambeer and Dan Wertz made a trip or two afterwards to clean up loose ends, and they will probably make another visit soon. We can report now that the project is near completion. Dan says the database is looking pretty good now. The plan is to provide all of this information on a CD. The disc will include a listing of all the cemetery residents in location order, with links to pictures of the gravestones. Additionally, the spreadsheet will be in surname order, for use as an index. There will be a complete set of the pictures for all of the tombstones. And it wouldn t be complete without pictures of the cemetery itself the entrance, panoramic views, and more. We re anticipating that this CD will be ready for sale and distribution sometime this fall. 6

7 PUBLICATIONS Our volunteers have extracted information for the communities served by PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS and created indexes with softbound covers. These communities include: Arlington Heights, Bensenville, Bloomingdale, Buffalo Grove, Carol Stream, Itasca, Lake Zurich, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Roselle, Shermerville, South Barrington and West Maine. PUBLICATION PRICE SHIPPING QTY TOTAL BIRTH Index, 34 pages $5.00 $ MARRIAGE Index, has indexes for bride and groom, 46 pages $6.00 $ DEATH Index, 44 pages $6.00 $ BIRTH Index, 38 pages $5.00 $ MARRIAGE Index, has indexes for bride and groom, 57 pages $6.50 $ DEATH Index, 56 pages $6.50 $ BIRTH Index, 26 pages $4.00 $ MARRIAGE Index, has indexes for bride and groom, 40 pages $5.00 $ DEATH Index, 38 pages $5.00 $ BIRTH Index, 25 pages $4.00 $ MARRIAGE Index, has indexes for bride and groom, 40 pages $5.00 $ DEATH Index, 51 pages $6.00 $ DEATH Index, 72 pages $10.00 $1.50 Mt. Prospect s St. Paul Lutheran-Evangelical Cemetery Book contains a list of lot owners, a burial list and a description of the tombstones, 28 pages. $10.00 N/A NEW! 20 years of births, marriages, and deaths on CD. PC and Mac compatible with a searchable index. Contains above Birth Index and Marriage Index for and Death Index for Cost is $12 which includes S&H. If ordering three indexes, shipping and handling is $3.50 for the entire order. Make check payable to NWSCG or Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists. TOTAL CHECK ENCLOSED: Name: Address: MAIL CHECK AND FORM TO NWSCG, PO BOX AC, MOUNT PROSPECT, IL City: State: Zip code: Why we d like you to become a member of the Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists Learn more about genealogy through our wide variety of speakers and programs; Learn how to preserve a part of our history for future generations; Network with researchers who are willing to share their experiences and offer suggestions; Learn new techniques to advance your research; Stay informed of area activities through our newsletter; Take advantage of the opportunity to meet other people who share your interests! The Officers and Committee Chairs of Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists Front row: Ruth Kramer, Janis O Keefe, Juanita Bryan Middle row: Donna Vallas, Teresa McMillin, Rita Hodgetts Back row: Dan Wertz, Rodger Kruse, Adeline Kruse, Margaret Bauer, Janet Hall, Ron Krambeer. Not pictured: Marilyn Hallman, Zoe Mather 7

8 Program Schedule Forest View Educational Center 2121 South Goebbert Road Arlington Heights, Illinois Turn south on Goebbert Road off of Golf Road. September 19: Marian Richter Schuetz It Wasn t A Cruise Ship October 17: Linda Herrick Old German Script Can Be Read November 14: George Valko Basic Genetic Genealogy For Paper Trail Genealogists January 16: George Schweitzer s AV Tape Migrations Across the US February 20: Dan Wertz Family Tree Maker-Advanced Topics March 20: Eric Basir Editing Digital Photos April 17: Speaker from the Chicago History Museum May 15: Helen Sclair Make the Cemetery Your Friend NORTHWEST SUBURBAN COUNCIL OF GENEALOGISTS P.O. BOX AC MOUNT PROSPECT, IL DATED MATERIAL PLEASE DO NOT DELAY To: