26 July 2016
1. Online
Resources for the history of Jews of Chicagoland
2. Jewish Funeral Homes
3. Genlighten
4. Naturalizations on FamilySearch.org
30 September 2015
1.
Webinars available from National Archives
9 February 2015
1. Online
cemetery info
2. INS link
12 Nov 2014
1. Update
cemetery information
2. Listing for
Hebrew Benevolent Cemetery
20 July 2014
1.
Newberry library synagogue collection on ChicagoAncestors.org
17 April 2014
1. Chicago
Jewish Blue Book on Spertus Institute Website
2. jewishdata.org
3. Joe Beine index of Cook
County death records
5 April 2013
1. Update of Mike's email address
4 May 2009
1.
Update
on new Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
2.
Cook County birth certificates and registers available on LDS site.
3.
Digitized
version of (Chicago) Sentinel on Spertus Institute site
4. Information on the
history of Chicago cemeteries including Jewish cemeteries
18 November 2008
1.
Cook
County Clerk of Circuit Court Declarations On-line index
17 July 2008
1.
Cook County Clerk's
record available online
2.
JGSI
Online Death Index
18 June 2008
1.
Cook County Clerk's
record available online
2. ChicagoAncestor.org available from
Newberry Library
9 April 2008
1.
Chicago Jewish Archives
2. Spertus
Institute Asher Library
1 July 2007
1. Additional updates of Illinois
Cemeteries beyond Chicagoland.
2. Updates to Jewish
Graceland Cemetery.
15 January 2007
1. Addition of Illinois
Cemeteries beyond Chicagoland.
2. Addition of Illinois
Newspaper Project.
3. Link to 1886
Robinson Fire Maps for 1886.
4. Update on "Who is Mike
Karsen?"
5. Link to Federal
Court Records.
11 December 2006
1. Updates of cemeteries and other minor corrections.
6 June 2006
1. Illinois
Regional Archives Depository: Cook County Coroner's Inquest Record Index
1872-1911.
2. ChicagoHistoryMuseum:
New name of Chicago Historical Society. Chicago street name changes and 1909
addressing changes. Online availability of 1928/29 Chicago City Directory.
3. Waldheim Cemetery: Announces
website and willingness to take photos of graves.
4. Westlawn
Cemetery: Willingness to take photos of graves
27 March 2006
1. Funeral homes updated.
2. Abraham
Lincoln Library updates.
5 January 2006
1. New rates for microfilm rentals at FHCs.
2. Addition of Encyclopedia of Chicago with
a History of Chicago Jews.
3. Update of online and offline property records from Cook
County Assessor.
15 November 2005
1. Update on Free
Sons Cemetery (now managed by Waldheim).
2. Hebrew
Benevolent Society (Jewish Graceland Cemetery) now indexed and available
through JGSI.
3. Oakwoods Cemetery information now
available.
4. Update on Jewish
Genealogical Society of Illinois projects.
26 August 2005
1. Added Steve Morse's advanced
SSDI searching options.
5 July 2005
1. Update on Chicago Tribune Historical
Archive.
2. Addition of the new Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library
3 June 2005
1. NARA
offers e-mail searches of indexes for midwest Naturalizations.
2. Westlawn
number of burials.
3. DuMelle, Grace, Finding
Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City
and Cook County. (Lake Claremont Press, Chicago) in references.
1 April 2005
1. Additional locations added including Jewish
Encyclopedia Online, Jewish
Web Index, Illinois
Genealogical Research, A Look
at Cook, and Chicago Streets.
2. Additional free links added to Social
Security Death Index.
3. New sections added to Organizations
Cemetery Sections.
4. Direct link added to Chicago
Jewish Archives.
11 March 2005
1. Merged Organizational
Cemetery Sections listing sections of all cemeteries in a single
alphabetical list.
2. Addition of Evergreen and Knesset Israel cemeteries.
3. Addition of What's New On This Site
4. FAQ: Is It Possible
to Search This Site?
5 March 2005
1. Links to on-line cemetery lists at Waldheim
Cemetery.
2. Cemeteries sections on JewishGen's
JOWBR.
