What's New?
Meetings:
The Great River Genealogical Society meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month from September through April. Meetings are held at the Quincy Senior and Family Resource Center, 639 York Street. The Board meets at 6:00 p.m. and regular meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. The month of May is an annual dinner with the installation of officers. At times the Program Chairman may arrange for monthly meetings to be held at other locations or so that a dinner may be served. The time and place of such meetings are announced at the previous meeting. Visitors are always welcome.
- September 9, 2010
- 7:00 p.m. - Warren Speckhart, member of GRGS and the Civil War Roundtable and former board member of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County, will present a special program about area events with historical significance.
Quincy Public Library Renovations
The Quincy Public Library will begin a renovation/construction
project in August 2010. The Library will be closed from July 23rd
through August 1st to move all adult services from the main floor of
the 526 Jersey Street building, to the attached annex at 515 York
Street . During the first phase of the project, which is expected to be
completed in April of 2011, materials and services will be compressed
into a much smaller space. For local history and genealogy researchers
this means that local materials will be available in a "mini Illinois
Room," but materials that can be found in other libraries will be put
into storage. Bear with us, we will have a new and improved Illinois
Room for your research and enjoyment next Spring!
Nancy Dolan, Executive Director
Quincy Public Library
Queries:
- Jean Kay, 272 East 1400th Street, Payson, IL 62360
- The Historical Society has received a photo album containing mostly unidentified photos for the period 1880's to 1890's. The back few pages have Civil War Era photos. The only names found on the backs of the photos are STRICKLER, SHERRICK, and McCABE. The photographers were from Quincy, Camp Point and Bowen. Does anyone have these family lines? Would someone be willing to help identify the photographs?
- Janet Pease, 10310 West 62nd Place, Arvada, CO 80004
- Seek dates/places of death and burial for 2 daughters of Moses
and Susan (MONK) WALLACE living 1840 Hancock Co., IL. Daughters
were:
a) Minerva Ann married John G. RAKE 1856, to Sullivan Co., MO 1858.
b) Sarah Ann married James CUMMINS 1858, Hancock Co. Is she the Sarah CUMMINS buried 1896 Prairie Grove Cemetery, Washington Twp., Clark Co., IA?
