Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A goal of the McLean County Museum of History is to support research in local and family history by operating a publicly accessible library and archive. The Stevenson-Ives Library and Benjamin Hoopes Family Archives contain a wide range of primary and secondary source material relating to Central Illinois history from the early 1800s to present.
The Family History Research Wiki receives over 100 million views per year. [16] During most months, it is typically the second-most frequently visited section (out of ten sections) of FamilySearch, its host site. As of March 7, 2016, the English edition of the Family History Research Wiki had 150,561 registered users who had contributed to the ...
Illinois State Archives; Fort Hill Cemetery This page was last edited on 27 August 2024, at 00:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) was created by State law in July 1985. What was the agency's oldest bureau, the Illinois State Historical Library, was created in 1889, but the origins of the agency could be said to date back to the state's involvement in building and caring for the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, until the Library and Museum was made into an independent state agency in 2017. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Historian and former director of several presidential libraries, Richard Norton Smith , served as the museum and library's founding ...
Millersburg Township is located in Mercer County, Illinois.As of the 2010 census, its population was 755 and it contained 334 housing units. [2]Millersburg is named after George Abraham Miller, a Primitive Baptist who, with several families, settled in Mercer County, Illinois on the Edwards River in 1834.
Census records are among the most frequently requested at NARA, with the oldest entries from 1790. [41] These records often contain information such as addresses and names of family members. However, all pieces of personal data are restricted for 72 years after collection; prior to then, federal agencies can only access statistical data. [42]
Margaret Cross Norton (July 7, 1891 – May 21, 1984) [1]: 197 served as the first State Archivist of Illinois from 1922 to 1957 and co-founded the Society of American Archivists in 1936, where she served as the first vice president from 1936 to 1937 and president from 1943 to 1945.