GHC Cemetery Walk

Come learn more about several of the founding members of Northfield Township this Sunday at the old St. Peter's Cemetery. Members of the Glenview History Center and the Northbrook Historical Society will be presenting a walking tour of the cemetery and will be sharing stories and portraying figures from the township's history.

The cemetery is located on Shermer Road between West Lake Avenue and Willow Road. Performances are at 1pm and 2:30pm.

BillionGraves.com

BillionGraves is a website with an interesting premise. The site encourages users to download an app to their smartphone or tablet and take pictures of gravestones at cemeteries they visit. The app uses the phone's GPS to identify the cemetery and will tag every photo's location exactly. The app uploads the photos automatically to the website and maps the locations of the photos. Volunteers online look at the photos that have been uploaded and transcribe the information off of the headstones into a searchable database.

BillionGraves hopes to eventually have photos of one billion graves
(or more!) searchable on their website. The site has been around for a couple of years but it's growing in popularity and already has an extensive collection of graves in the US.

The database itself is easy to use and GPS tagging also makes it simple to visit a cemetery and find the location of a specific grave site too. While the database is not quite as extensive as FindAGrave, the site is growing all the time. That's the charm of BillionGraves. It's incredibly easy for users to help grow the collection by choosing to either go out and photograph grave sites or by just sitting at the computer, transcribing what others have already uploaded.

If you want to help with photographing graves, the app can be downloaded for free through Android Market/Google Play or the iPhone App Store.

GLENVIEW CEMETERY LORE AND LEGEND

Don Long and Wayne Carle are two gentlemen with deep Glenview roots.  They will share tales and history with us about the origins of Northfield Oakwood and Immanuel Lutheran cemeteries, their Civil War connections,  and their effect on Glenview.

There are still openings in this interesting presentation.  A Glenview Library Card is not required for registration.

Refreshments will be served.

Please call (847) 729-7500 x7700 to register,

GLENVIEW CEMETERY STORIES

Glenview Cemeteries: The Lore and the Legend
Wednesday, October 24, 7 PM

Celebrate Family History Month with Wayne Carle and Don Long of the Glenview Histtory Center.  With deep Glenview roots, Carle and Long have special connections to the Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery and Northfield Oakwood Cemetery.

Let your mind wander among the legends and lore during this week before Halloween.   Gather with neighbors and friends in the cozy library setting to hear the stories of two historic Glenview cemeteries and some of their eternal residents.

Location: Community Room

Register by telephone at 847-729-7500, ext. 7700, or at the Reference Services Desk.

Arlington National Cemetery Gravesite Accountability Task Force

Are your ancestors buried in Arlington National Cemetery?

The Gravesite Accountability Task Force has been charged with verifying all cemetery records for the nearly 260,000 people who have been interred at Arlington since 1864.
The Task Force is to verify cemetery records, and fix discrepancies. The Old Guard (the Army unit responsible for manning the Tomb of the Unknowns 24×365) has responsibility for photographing every tombstone front and back.  Target date for completion of photography is end of October 2011.

All existing documents and records are being scanned. All digital information will be cross referenced and verified, and made public on the cemetery's website.
Read more in the Fort Bragg Patch.

It is currently possible to locate a grave and get a temporary pass to drive there, but it is a time consuming process.  The new database should make the search easier and more accurate.

Cemetery Research

Craig Pfannkuche will present Dates From The Stones: Cemetery Research at the next meeting of the Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists to be held on October 19, 2010 at Forest View Educational Center, Room 100, 2121 S. Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Craig will share with you that cemeteries are outstanding places to find good family history information. After doing a bit of homework prior to a trip, one should not stop only to visit the cemetery office. Wandering out among the stones can bring valuable family information not contained on the office “plot card.” The art on stones can tell us a lot; there may even be family photographs on the stones.

Craig Pfannkuche is president of Memory Trail Research, Inc. and is the genealogical archivist of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Historical Society. He serves on the Boards of the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society and the Chicago Genealogical Society, and is listed as a railroad resource person in the book, The Source. Craig is a former American History instructor. He holds both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Northern Illinois University

He is a lively and popular speaker at workshops and conferences and has published many articles. A recent article “Amboy’s (Illinois) Railroad Baron” appears in the Amboy Depot Museum Journal, Winter 2009.

Northwest Suburban Council of GenealogistsP.O. Box 148 ● Mount Prospect, Illinois, 60056

Civil War Veterans Database

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War preserves the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic. It includes a searchable Grave Database.

On the project home page, you can create an account in order to contribute information to the database.

Northfield Oakwood Cemetery

Do you have Glenview roots?

The Library's genealogy page has a cemeteries link which now takes you to two new lists for the Northfield Oakwood Cemetery.

There is a list of cemetery residents, and a list of veterans.

This information, which will be very valuable for people researching their Glenview roots, was generously shared with us by Mr. Wayne Carle.

Historic Glenview Cemeteries

There is a new information link for historic Glenview cemeteries on the Library's genealogy web page. It lists cemeteries in or near Glenview in which members of Glenview founding families are buried. Included under the name of each cemetery are its location, a few significant family names associated with it, and where it is transcribed.

If you are interested in cemetery transcriptions, some of them are included in Some German Name Cemeteries, Cook County, Illinois Volume 1, by Gertrude Lundberg, at call number RL920.07731 LUN, and in the microfilm Cemetery Records by Gertrude W. Lundberg, which is kept at the Reference Desk.

Cemeteries not mentioned in this list can be researched at at Graveyards.com Transcriptions of cemetery headstones are often done by genealogical societies, and may be found by searching the OCLC FirstSearch database or Google Books by name of cemetery.

New Genealogy Book at GPL: Chicago Cemetery Records

Chicago Cemetery Records, 1847-1863 : Sexton's Reports and Certificates, Treasurer Receipts, Deeds, and Undertakers' Reports / Chicago Genealogical Society, c2008.

This book was made possible by the discovery in 1984 of Chicago City Council proceedings which had beem thought destroyed in the Fire of 1871. It includes background on early cemeteries in Chicago, maps, reproductions of sample documents, and chronological listings by type of document. There is a name index, and a bibliography. five appendices contain details about ward boundaries in various years, lots sales from Oak Woods Cemetery, records from Old Catholic Cemetery by Helen Sclair, the Illinois Regional Archival Depository system, and addresses of Repositories.

Interpreting Headstones

The North Suburban Genealogical Society invites you to hear Craig Pfannkuche as he presents a guide to our members in reading and understanding headstones. The subject title is Interpreting Headstones.

Craig is on the Board of Directors for the McHenry County ILL. Genealogical Society and the Chicago Genealogical Society. Mr. Pfannkuche is a frequent lecturer on genealogical subjects but has also published written articles of interest to genealogists.

When: May 9, 2009
Where: Glenview Library 1930 Glenview Road, Glenview , IL 60025
Admission: Free
Time: 1 p.m. problem solving
1:45 p.m. general meeting
2 p.m. Program w/Craig Pfannkuche

Contact: Jim Boyle, 847-401-2579