What's New
Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to this Johnson County ILGenWeb site.
2023 May 26 - Johnson County ILGenWeb released for adoption
2023 Jan 13 - Thanks to Terry Ceballos, added 1944 Rt 146 east of Vienna photo
2022 Oct 17 - Thanks to Bob Sullivan, added HonorStates.org Resource link
2022 Jun 01 - Removed broken link to ILGenWeb Resources
2022 Apr 22 - Added 1876 Atlas of Illinois extractions
(map, county history, 6 biographies, 1 view, 4 portraits, business directory, patrons list)
and Resource link
2022 Feb 01 - Prepared to move site off Genealogy Village (removed form & host info)
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 Jul 27 - Added Death Register 1 listing
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links
2021 Feb 07 - Thanks to Michael Smith, posted his SMTIH / DEES / WEBB query
2021 Jan 28 - Thanks to Carolyn Gober, corrected Samuel C. Winn's age at death
2020 Dec 22 - Added Resource link to Johnson County,Illinois Genealogy on Facebook
2020 Dec 18 - Added 1905 Sep 08 Goreville Record newspaper tidbits
2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource links to Illinois Secretary of State Databases and Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
2020 Nov 06 - Thanks to Carol Sperry, added photos to Samuel Hess biography
2020 Nov 02 - Thanks to Carol Sperry, corrected Samuel Hess biography (60th, not 16th Reg)
2020 Jun 10 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added 2013 Trail of Tears pdf
2020 Apr 13 - Added extraction & Resource link for Pioneer Days Illinois
2020 Mar 09 - Added Howard Cemetery
2020 Mar 03 - Thanks to Randy Pace, added his Samuel S GRIGGS query
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new
ILJOHNSON query board and mailing list
2019 Dec 02 - Thanks to Michael Harris, added his SIMMONS info and query
2019 Dec 01 - Thanks to Cheryl Rothwell, added Resource link to IL Coal Mining
2019 Nov 30 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, added Resource link to Free and
American by Darrel Dexter
2019 Oct 20 - Added an extraction and Resource link for Stories from Illinois
History
2019 Sep 17 - Fixed links to Census pages, transcribed a few obituaries
2019 Jun 21 - Thanks to
Dan O'Neal,
added O'Neal family photo
2019 Jun 20 - Thanks to
Dan O'Neal,
added O'Neal family history
2019 May 26 - Added listings of some surnames found in church records
2019 Feb 04 - Added extraction and Resource link to History of the Disciples of
Christ in Illinois
07 Nov 2018 - Added 28 biographies from 1912 History of Sounthern Illinois
28 Sep 2018 - Added resource link to church records
23 Aug 2018 - Added remaining early land sales (H-Z)
26 Jul 2018 - Started adding early land sales (A-G)
08 Jun 2018 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps
07 Apr 2018 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
30 Mar 2018 - Thanks to
Donnie Pickard, added DEBNAM, NEELEY, and HAMMONS court records
28 Mar 2018 - Added links to a GSSI map of Johnson County
15 Feb 2018 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added birth years to Korean War Casualties
list
14 Jan 2018 - Added remaining biographies from 1912 History of Southern
Illinois, volume 2
30 Dec 2017 - Removed LookUps page
11 Dec 2017 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added
Mexican-American War link
02 Nov 2017 - Added Paul Boyt's query
06 Jul 2017 - Added Miller L. Smith descendants chart
28 Jun 2017 - Added some biographies from 1912 History of Southern Illinois, volume 2
20 May 2017 - Added GSSI and SCC resources
19 May 2017 - Thanks to
Anita Boyd added emancipations records
30 Apr 2017 - Added Barry Seifert's query
16 Apr 2017 - Added Resource link to Evers family history book
10 Apr 2017 - Added extraction from A History of Southern Illinois
24 Mar 2017 - Restored SSDI listing
08 Feb 2017 - Added remaining 1925 Chapman biographies
06 Feb 2017 - Added map and more biographies from 1925 Chapman's History
16 Dec 2016 - Added remaining Johnson County 1893 biographies
02 Dec 2016 - Welcome returning co-coordinator Jackie Webb
01 Dec 2016 - Thanks to Joyce Rich, updated New Salem Cemetery listing with 1)
correct name for Steven Dion Rich and 2) added July 20th, 2009, date of
expiration for James Arthur Vaughn
14 Nov 2016 - Added Civil War Muster list, 1883 Pensioners, and Spanish-American
War list
29 Oct 2016 - Finished restoring 1893 biographies
28 Oct 2016 - Restored more of Rick Girtman's transcriptions (births, marriages,
obituaries, wills, church, 1820 census, 1830 census, 1840 census, and
photographs)
23 Oct 2016 - Found and began restoring Rick Girtman's old Johnson County
ILGenWeb pages (a few of many biographies)
07 Oct 2016 - Added Servitude & Emancipation record names
21 Sep 2016 - Added more 1893 Biographical extractions
21 Aug 2016 - Added 1894 Review resource and Vienna extraction
24 Jul 2016 - Added more 1893 Biographical extractions
19 Jun 2016 - Added more 1893 Biographical extractions
06 May 2016 - Added more 1893 Biographical extractions
01 May 2016 - Added more extractions from Chapman's 1925 History
30 Apr 2016 - Expanded military section
23 Apr 2016 - Added more extractions from 1896 Biographical Review
17 Apr 2016 - Added more extractions from 1896 Biographical Review
16 Apr 2016 - Added more extractions from 1896 Biographical Review
14 Apr 2016 - Added more extraction from Chapman's 1925 History
12 Apr 2016 - Added more extractions from Chapman's 1925 History
10 Apr 2016 - Thanks to Dennis Yancey, added off-site link to Yancey family site
10 Apr 2016 - Added 1916-1950 deaths from IL State Archives
09 Apr 2016 - Added more extractions from Chapman's 1925 History
08 Apr 2016 - Added more biographies from 1893 Biographical Review
03 Apr 2016 - New coordinator Norma Hass added off-site Census and Resources
links, and added maps and county formation info
02 Jan 2015--Added Axley & Allen Biographies page
02 Jan 2015--Added Bain History to Families page
01 Nov 2014--Added pages 6 & 7 of Mitchell Webb family by Jackie Webb
30 Oct 2014--Added New Salem Cemetery
25 Oct 2014--Added page 5 of Mitchell Webb family by Jackie Webb
24 Oct 2014--Added pages 3,4 of Mitchell Webb family by Jackie Webb
19 Oct 2014--Added pages 1,2 of Mitchell Webb family by Jackie Webb
04 Oct 2014--Added a business photo under "History" Section
04 Oct 2014--Added photo's
04 Oct 2014--Added Newspaper Obituaries
03 Oct 2014--Added photo of Emil & Georgia (Grissom) Kerlin courtesy Elizabeth Grissom
03 Oct 2014--Added Elbert W. Grissom Obit courtesy of Elizabeth Grissom.
20 Sept 2014--Added churches under History Section
20 Sept 2014--Added in Volunteer section
20 Sept 2014--Added Bain Newspaper Article courtesy of Homer Cissel
14 Sept 2014--Added Cissel Photos courtesy of Homer Cissel
25 Aug 2014--Added Bridges Cemetery
24 Aug 2014--Added some churches for Belknap Twp
10 Jun 2014--Added 1881 Deaths Completed
2 Jun 2014--Added 1880 Deaths Completed
2 Jun 2014--Added 1879 Deaths Completed
2 Jun 2014--Added Albright, Carson, Choate, Hobbs, Home Farm, Simmons1, Simmons2 Cemeteries
2 Jun 2014-- Added Newspaper Obituaries
1 Jun 2014-- Added Cedar Grove Cemetery
24 May 2014--Added Calhoon, Francis, Gurley & Hoil Cemeteries
25 Apr 2014--Added Allen N Webb Obituary
24 Apr 2014--Added Fitch Biography & Reference under Book Section
11 Apr 2014--Added 1879 Deaths Complete
08 Apr 2014--Added Bush Cemetery
02 Apr 2014--Added 1879 Deaths partial
30 Mar 2014--Added "D-Z" Marriages 1850-1900 via ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES
29 Mar 2014--Added 1878 Deaths partial
26 Mar 2014--Added "A-C" Marriages 1850-1900 via ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES
22 Mar 2014--Added Hacker Cemetery
22 Mar 2014--Added Friendship Cemetery
22 Mar 2014--Added Bethlehem Cemetery of Tunnel Hill Twp.
21 Mar 2014--Added Gillespie and McBride Photos
21 Mar 2014--Added Craig Cemetery
21 Mar 2014--Added Goddard Cemetery
21 Mar 2014--Added County Line Cemetery
20 Mar 2014--Added Chapman Cemetery
19 Mar 2014--Added Gibson Cemetery
19 Mar 2014--Added Salem Cemetery
18 Mar 2014--Added Military Units
15 Mar 2014--Added Simpson Cemetery
15 Mar 2014--Added Perry Cemetery
15 Mar 2014--Added Mt. Zion Cemetery
15 Mar 2014--Added more photos.
14 Mar 2014--Added Anderson Photos
12 Mar 2014--Added Cana and Mt Olive Cemeteries
7 Mar 2014--Added Moore and Faulkner photos
7 Mar 2014--Added Goddard, Halcom, Van Cleve Biographies
5 Mar 2014--Added Photo of John & Martha Brooks Bain
2 Mar 2014--Added Mosley Cemetery
1 Mar 2014--Added Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
28 Feb 2014--Added Photos (Askew and Webb)
28 Feb 2014--Added Biographies Beauman, Calhoon, Carter, Chapman
28 Feb 2014--Added Biography Throgmorton, Gore, Whittenberg, Whitehead
27 Feb 2014--Added rest of Vienna Fraternal Cemetery
27 Feb 2014--Added Biographies (Burns, Throgmorton,)
24 Feb 2014--Added Biographies(Allsip, Bain, Whittenberg)
23 Feb 2014--Add Biography (Rentfro)
23 Feb 2014--Added Photos (Webb, Simmons, Casey)
22 Feb 2014--Added Biographies and Obituaries to Newspapers
22 Feb 2014-- Added part of Vienna Fraternal Cemetery
21 Feb 2014-- Added Biographies
20 Feb 2014--Added Newspaper Obituaries
18 Feb 2014--Added births donated by Marilyn G Meisenheimer
16 Feb 2014--Johnson County Births updated
15 Feb 2014--Johnson County Births updated
14 Feb 2014--Johnson County Births updated
14 Feb 2014--McBride Land Records added
11 Feb 2014--Johnson Cemetery added
11 Feb 2014--Ledbetter Cemetery added
07 Feb 2014--Shiloh Cemetery added
07 Feb 2014--Hess Cemetery added
06 Feb 2014--Oliver Cemetery added
05 Feb 2014--Reynolds family chart
04 Feb 2014--Double Bridges Cemetery added
04 Feb 2014--Rentfro Cemetery added
04 Feb 2014--Bethlehem Cemetery-Grantsburg Twp. added
02 Feb 2014--Concord Cemetery-Elvira Twp. added
01 Feb 2014--Nelson Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014--Holt Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014--Grissom Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014--Allen Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014--Warren Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014-- Wartrace Cemetery added
01 Feb 2014-- Cemetery Home Page added
31 Jan 2014--Births from familysearch.org added
18 Jan 2014--New Look by new coordintors Jackie Webb and JoEllen Langwell