Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 11
DeKalb County Family History Guide
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.199
Scope and Contents
A 23-page locality guide for conducting local history and genealogy research in DeKalb County. The files were received electronically and have been printed. Electronic records are archived in V:\ARCHIVES\RCElectronicArchives\VFM 4.199 DeKalb County Family History Guide
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 06/20/2017
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Eugene "Gene" Head
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-320
Scope and Contents
The collection originated on two 3 ½ inch floppy disks, which are included at the end of the collection. The documents were first written in a program that is unknown, but made legible using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and printed in their entirety. The files consist of an autobiography of Eugene “Gene” Head entitled: “In my Rear View Mirror: My Visions of the Past.” Also included is an extensive genealogy of the Head family, which traces its ancestors back to the 1700s. The genealogy was...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Florence Houghton Marshall Collection (DeKalb County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-261
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection primarily deal with subjects of interest to genealogists, and date from the mid-1800’s to 1990’s. A sizeable portion of the collection relates to materials on DeKalb County, especially cemetery records. There are also a number of publications dealing with genealogical and historical subjects in greater Illinois. In addition there are materials of general interest to local historians. Florence Marshall’s correspondence with others seeking help with their...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1800s-1990s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2003
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Giles P. Ransom Family Collection (Roscoe)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-275
Scope and Contents
Records in the Dr. Giles Paddock Ransom Family collection date from 1789 to 2009 with the majority of the records from the 1850 through 1930 time period. They document the personal and business aspects of individuals living in Rockford and Roscoe, Illinois. There are four main families represented in the collection–Jenks, Sherman, Leland, and Ransom; the Ransom family is most predominant. The other families are associated by marriage or settled near the Ransoms or both. Documents include...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1839-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s-1930s; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/2006
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Johnson Family Diaries (Stephenson County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-305
Scope and Contents
The Johnson Family Diaries consist of five diaries and one typed transcript of the first four diaries. The 1843 diary of William Wright recounts the journey from Union County, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois. The 1882-1909 Margaret Heise Wright Johnson diaries chronicle the life of then 16 year-old Margaret as she comes of age in Illinois at the end of the 19th century. A photograph of Margaret (undated) was found behind the cover of the first diary volume along with...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1990; Other: Date acquired: 10/20/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Kellum Family, 1865
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-04-4.185
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1865
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lest We Forget, veterans in Sycamore area cemeteries
Collection
Identifier: RHC-GVFM-04-G4.62
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1992; Other: Date acquired: 04/19/2017
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
North Central Illinois Genealogical Society Collection (Winnebago County)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-188
Scope and Contents
The North Central Illinois Genealogical Society records consist of 10 volumes of cemetery inscriptions from 8 different townships within Winnebago County, Illinois, 1 volume of surnames which appeared in the Pecatonica News from 1872-1917, and a 1986 directory of members of the Society.
Within the volumes of township cemetery inscriptions, each cemetery is named, inventoried and indexed separately. The location of each cemetery is given at the beginning of its listing....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1988; Other: Date acquired: 01/20/1989
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Rockford Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records (Rockford)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-302
Scope and Contents
Series one contains organizational records, founding documents, constitution and by-laws, papers of board members and committees such as chapter regent, register, recording secretary, librarian and historian. It also contains records about the Rockford chapter, including awards, certifications and correspondence. This series also contains board meeting minutes; including general membership minutes, regular, executive, and special minutes.
The financial papers, series two, consist mostly...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-2011; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/2010
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Salem Lutheran Church Records (Sycamore)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-321
Scope and Contents
Records from the Salem Lutheran Church date from its organization in 1870 to the present, although the bulk of the material dates from 1967 to 2000.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-2013
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Filtered By
- Subject: Genealogy X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Genealogy 8
- Cemeteries 3
- Rockford (Ill.) 3
- Sycamore (Ill.)--Genealogy. 3
- Diaries-- 1840-1869 2
- Diaries-- 1870-1909 2
- Diaries-- 1910-1960 2
- Sycamore (Ill.) 2
- Sycamore (Ill.)--History. 2
- Winnebago County (Ill) 2
- Cardiology--Instruments. Heart Monitor -- Heart of Iron 1
- Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church 1
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Rockford Chapter (Rockford, Ill.) 1
- DeKalb (Ill.) 1
- DeKalb County (Ill) 1
- Education. 1
- Family life--History 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Hononegah Society 1
- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) 1
- Immigrants -- Sweden 1
- Immigrants -- Sweden -- Religious life. 1
- Inventions 1
- Kane County (Ill) 1
- Lake Forest Academy 1
- Love-letters 1
- Lutherans 1
- Lutherans, Swedish 1
- Marion County (Ky.) 1
- Medical care 1
- Mental health 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church 1
- National Grange. Charter Grove Grange (DeKalb County, Ill.) 1
- North Central Illinois Genealogical Society 1
- Operadio Manufacturing Company 1
- Pecatonica (Ill.) 1
- Photographs 1
- Photography 1
- Physician 1
- Prohibition 1
- Roscoe (Ill.) 1
- Sanitariums 1
- St. Charles (Ill.) 1
- Stephenson County (Ill) 1
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence 1
- Veterans 1
- Veterans--Services for--United States 1
- Wagon trains 1
- Women--Societies and clubs. 1
- World War II 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Davenport Family 1
- DuKane Corporation 1
- Giles Paddock Ransom Family 1
- Gooding Family 1
- Head, Gene 1
- Horton Family 1
- Jenks Family 1
- Jewell Family 1
- Johnson Family, Stephenson County 1
- Leland Family 1
- Marshall, Florence 1
- Nielsen Family 1
- Outhouse Family 1
- Ransom Family 1
- Salem Lutheran Church (Sycamore, Ill.) 1
- Sherman Family 1
- Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Sycamore, Ill.) 1
- Taylor Family 1
- Turpin Family 1
- Wagoner, Harold E. (Harold Eugene), 1905-1986. 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
