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African Americans in Pekin

The Feb. 2005 issue of the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society’s Monthly, pages...

Ongoing research into the family of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) has recently uncovered additional information...

Over the next two weeks at “From the History Room” we’ll present the further...

A great deal of progress has been made in the effort to create the...

Last week we reviewed the history of the 29th U.S. Colored Infantry, which was...

At this weblog we have written several times about the life of Pvt. William...

This week we continue the genealogical account of the Ashby family of Fulton and...

We continue now with the genealogical account of the descendants of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892),...

The date was Aug. 4, 1964. The time was just before noon. The place,...