Family Charts
Your Family Group Sheet or Descendents Chart of a Cook county ancestor could be posted here with a link to your email address. Please be sure to remove references to any person still living, then email your contribution with your family report embedded in the email body or attached as a txt, doc, or pdf file.
Descendants Charts
ASHEIM, Clas (1-page pdf file)
submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
BRUNOW, Ferdinand (2-page pdf file)
submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
LANGNER, John (3-page pdf file)
submitted by
Norma
PANTKE, August 1-page pdf file)
submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
PREVENAS, Demetrios (2-page pdf file)
submitted by
Norma
RETZLAFF, George (1-page pdf file)
submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
WOTKE, Herman (1-page pdf file)
submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
Family Group Sheets
CHISHOLM, Duncan
CHMURA, Stanley (1-page pdf file)
submitted by Norma
DOLECKI, Frank (2-page pdf file)
submitted by Norma
DREJAS collection (7-page pdf file)
submitted by Tami
PIETRZAK, Martin (2-page pdf file)
submitted by Norma
Pedigree Charts
WOTKE, Theresa (4-page pdf file) submitted by Jeffrey Crowell
Family Memorabilia
25 Sep 1846
Letter from Bernard McDonnell in Galveston, Texas,
to his brother, Charles McDonnell, in Chicago, Illinois
My Dear Charles,
On Mrs. McD arrival here in Texas I sent on a power of attorney
to you to sell my lot, and in two weeks after I wrote another
letter to you to neither of which I have received an answer as
yet. I am therefore led to believe you have not received either
of them. I have been anxiously awaiting an answer, every mail
comes in I have go to the post office but got no letter. I
received some newspapers from you and have sent you some
Galveston papers in exchange. It gives me great pleasure to see
the Chicago papers. About three weeks ago I received a letter
from Nicholas, they are all well except Peter Doyle who has
hurted the spine of his back by a fall from a load of hay
belonging to my mother which leaves Ellen in much poverty,
Nicholas appeals to me in her behalf for some relief which is
out of my power to render at present of account of my building
so much this summer. I have built a two-story house 43 X 36 the
lumber of which cost from $22 to $40 per thousand.
I have sent Nicholas’ letter on to Mary by the Steam Ship New
York which got wrecked fifty miles from this city and lost the
mail bags and nineteen passengers and of course the letter is
gone. There has been above a hundred thousand dollars in cash
lost on her which the merchants belonging to this place was
sending on to the north. Write to me as soon as you receive this
and let me know whether you have received the power of attorney
or not, in order that I may send on another to you if that has
been mislaid through the post office. I have been expecting the
money for the lot before this to lay in my winter stock. It
would be of the great service to me at this time as I have laid
out the most of the cash I had on hand in the building. My
calculations were made that I would have the money by this time
and that was the reason that I lost no time in sending on the
power of attorney on Mrs. McD’s arrival so that you would have
the whole summer to make sale of it. You will therefore see the
necessity I’m under of selling as soon as possible although I do
not want to make a sacrifice of it. I want it to sell for
whatever any lots in the neighborhood is bringing or near it.
There is nothing of any importance from the army. They are on
the march to Monterey and every vessel passes by here from
Orleans is crowded with horses, mules and army accoutrements of
every description.
Mrs. McD sends her love to you all, remember me to Ed Cosgrove.
Your affectionate Brother,
Bernard McDonnell
Mrs. McDonnell requests of you to let her know how Mrs.
McDonnell and all the children are. I received a letter from
Mary some six weeks since. She and husband are well.
Yours,
Bernard
Contributed Feb 2004 by Eileen Johnson
Family Photos
Family Web Sites
Do you have a genealogy web site of your Cook county ancestors?
Please
submit your site information so a link can be added below for others to visit.
Ancestor's Attic
Immigration from Northumberland England, Cosenza Italy and Southern Poland to Chicago.
I have surnames from Italy, England, Poland, Germany and Quebec (French Canadian).
My webpage includes poems, humor, ship and family photos.
Surnames: ADDUCCI/ADUCCI/ADDUCI, CLARK, CZAJKOWSKI, GUIMONT, O'CONNOR, KLIMCZAK, NAWIESNIAK, THURS
Contributed by Patty Guimont
Atkinson Family
Our pages include an Eastland page which includes photo of cutting line at Western Felt, partial ship lists,
partial Cook Co Death and Birth Index lists, partial death record index from St. Adalbert's Church,
Partial Pullman Collection surname list. We have many photographs of family taken in Chicago and Cook Co.
We also have links to the many Cook County places we have used in our research.
Surnames: WIELGOS(Z), KALKA, KWIATKOWSKI, SKORUPA, GOREWICZ, BUKOWSKI, FAMULA, PELKA
Submitted by Linda Atkinson
Genealogy of Diane Melone
Surnames: BALASSONE, BOCHMAN, BROOKMANN, CIRULLO, COMPAGNONI, COOPER, COPPOTELLI, CUMMINGS, DEBLAKE,
EVANS, FASO, FEMINIS, FUSCO, GOEBEL, HENKE, HOPMAN, HULTSCH, JENESS, JOHNSON, JURZ, KAHNT, KASPER,
KELLY, KIMMEL, LARSEN, LIGGETT, LYERLY, LYNG, MELONE, MULDOWNEY, NIEMANN, REIMER, ROBINSON, SHILLING,
SOYAK, TASSI, WHITE
Contributed by Diane Hultsch-Melone
McNeal~Schwark Genealogy
Family website of both mine and my husbands (McNeal) families. Includes many photo albums,
family information and research, and stories/memories.
Surnames: SCHWARK, HALKET, OLK, HARRER, LECHNER
Contributed by Kathyrn Louise McNeal
