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Kankakee Valley Genealogical
Society
Serving the Kankakee County Area P.O. Box 442, Bourbonnais, Illinois 60914 Welcome to Our Home Page |
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| Society Information | K3 County Cemeteries | Web Projects & Databases | Misc |
Announcements
| The Kankakee Public Library has a local genealogist in the Genealogy Room every Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. to help anyone with genealogical research |
| Future Meetings! At the Kankakee Library, 1:00pm unless otherwise noted |
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| April 10, 2010 | Preserving Family Stories, Presented by Beth Lamie The program will be presented at 2:00 and the business meeting at 1:00 | |
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May 1, 2010 |
"Help with your Genealogy at the Library." From 1 to 4 p.m. experienced genealogists will be available in the Genealogy Room on the Third Floor of Kankakee Public Library to help anyone with genealogical research. | |
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June 5, 2010 |
Nancy Bruce Crilly will present "Newspapers, The Genealogist's Goldmine" |
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Kankakee County Death Certificates now on line > click here |
10/12/2009 | |
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Hebert/Abair ancestry on line |
2/11/2010 | |
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Great links from our Quarterly & others |
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NARA Adds Immigration Indexes to its Website |
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| The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Has placed three important immigration indexes on their website: "Germans to America (1850-1879)", "Italians to America (1855-1900", and "Russians to America (1834-1897)". These were previously available only in book and CD form. Access is through the NARA website. Scroll down to the section called "Specific Immigration Topics". www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration | ||
| Locate graves http://findagrave.com/ | ||
| Public Records Office of Northern Ireland: www.proni.gov.uk/ | ||
| Bible Records Online www.biblerecords.com | ||
| Native American Genealogy www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ | ||
| Minnesota Historical Society www.mnhs.org/genealogy | ||
| Massachusetts Archives www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm | ||
| Perry-Castarieda Library Map Collection www.lib.utexas.edu/maps | ||
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See more genealogy at The Kankakee, IL GenWeb Project |
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| Learn more about Kankakee County at the Kankakee County Convention & Visitors Bureau. | ||
| St. George Catholic Church Records 1860-2006, available for $30 plus $4.00 P&H | 5/18/08 | |
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