Teri’s and Frankie’s Blog

I’ve added a new search engine to the site by FreeFind.com.
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We have started using this search engine on Clinton Co ILGenWeb and are quite pleased.  Its biggest advantage is that it can be told to re-index a site as required.  The search engine has a “search the web” feature and I had hoped it would be useful for cross searching between the Clinton Co site and mine, but … the search engine appears to ignore the indexes it creates at other sites and present a bunch of paid advertiser type of links.

Anyhow, it does a good job of searching individual sites.

Frankie

A dear family member and friend passed away last week, Cecil Mainer.  Here is a little bit about him.
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Name:    Archibald Cecil Mainer

Father:    John William Mainer
Mother:    Hattie Parlee Craig

Individual Facts
Birth    8 Mar 1921    McClure, Alexander County, Illinois
Death    26 Jun 2008    Saint Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital, Centralia, Marion County, Illinois
Burial    7 Jul 2008    Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Centralia, Illinois

Marriages/Children
1. Mildred Louise Heinzmann
Marriage    23 Dec 1945    First Baptist Church, Saint Louis, St. Louis (city), Missouri
Residence (fam)    Hoffman, Clinton County, Illinois
Children    Lester David Mainer, Ruth Marie Mainer

From the Centralia Sentinel:
A. C. Mainer
HOFFMAN - A. C. “Cecil” Mainer, 87, of Hoffman died Thursday, June 26, 2008, at St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hos­pital in Centralia.
He was born March 8, 1921, in McClure, the son of John William and Hattie Parlee (Craig) Mainer. He married Mildred Heinzmann on Dec. 23, 1945, in St. Louis, and she preceded him in death after 60 years of marriage.
Mr. Mainer is survived by a son, L. David Mainer and wife Beth of Centralia; daughter, Ruth Tinne [Rinne] and husband Wayne of Hoffman; a brother Fred Mainer and wife Donna of Centralia; a sister Elaine Piercy of Cali­fornia; a granddaughter, Amanda Rinne of Hoffman; three step-grandchildren, Andrew Robnett of Arkansas, Tony Rinne and wife Della of Salem, and Stacey Mulvaney of Alma; and three step­great-grandchildren, Preston Rinne of Georgia, Alisha Wil­son of Salem and Coleman Mulvaney of Alma.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; six brothers, John H. Mainer, Marvin L. Mainer, Mauriece L. Mainer, Melvin H. Mainer, William 0. Mainer, and Lawrence R. Mainer; and two sisters, Vela V. Wike and Peggy Y. Jackson.
Mr. Mainer was a well known hunting, boating and trapping safety Master Instructor for the Depart­ment of Natural Resources for the State of Illinois. Dur­ing his years of teaching the various classes he was named Outstanding Volun­teer of the State of Illinois in 2000 and Instructor of the Year for the Department of Natural Resources for 2000. He was a member of the Elkhorn Hunting and Fishing Club, and a member of the Shriners Ainad Temple, He was a member of several Masonic lodges, where he held different offices includ­ing Past Mater [sic] of the Cen­tralia Masonic Temple. He belonged to the American Legion Post in Centralia and was Past Commander along with being the Chef de Garie of the 40 & 8. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II as a radio operator/instructor.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday at the Chapel of Hillcrest Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Centralia, with Pastor Ron Ruggles officiating. Inter­ment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Friends may call from 5 until 8 p.m. at St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Centralia. Masonic Rites will be held at 6:30 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Hillcrest Memorial Park Endowed Care Fund and will be accepted at the funeral home.

From the Wednesday December 20, 1995, Centralia, IL Morning Sentinel, page 3C:

Mr. & Mrs. A. Cecil Mainer       Golden anniversary

A. Cecil Mainer of Centralia and Mildred Louise Heinzmann of Shattuc were united in marriage Dec. 23, 1945, at First Baptist Church of St. Louis with the Rev. Pankey officiating. The couple’s family includes son and daughter-in-law Lester David and Beth Mainer of Centralia; daughter and son-in-law Ruth Marie and Wayne Rinne of Hoffman; granddaughter Amanda Danielle Rinne; and three step- grandchildren. The couple plans to celebrate with their children at T.K.’s with a quiet evening meal on Dec. 23. Plans are for an open house and celebration in early 1996.

First, the Clinton County Obituaries page on Clinton County ILGenWeb has been updated so I took down the temporary page that was on this site.

I’ve also done a major update to the TNG on-line database including new information on the SARGENTs and HILLs thanks to Stephanie Sargent!

I am so excited — I have been accepted as the new volunteer co-coordinator the Clinton County ILGenWeb site.  This fantastic site has almost 400 MB of data including vital records, cemetery transciptions, obituarys, photographs, and census records.
It is an honor to be entrusted with the task of preserving and protecting this data.

Frankie

I just finished with the upgrades to both Wordpress (runs this blog) and The Next Generation (TNG runs the genealogy database).  If anyone has problems, please send me an email.

I am finished with indexing the 2003 copies of the Carlyle Union Banner. The indexes have all been sent to Obituary Daily Times. I have many copies of the Carlyle Union Banner from 1997 and earlier but I’m not going to be indexing them for several months. It is time for me to start working on my publication of the Ancestors and Descendants of Clemens W Heinzmann.

If there are any family members reading this and they want their information updated before the new book is printed, please contact me right away!

Frankie

I have stacks and stacks of newspapers and I have no way to file them so I started a project of creating file folders for the obituaries. I’m working on the Carlyle Union Banner. I have indexed the obits from all the papers I have for the years 2004 thru today (2008). If you are interested in searching these indexes, check out the Obituary Daily Times. You can search for surnames or enter “CarlyleUB” and see all the indexed entries for the Union Banner. I am also sending the indexes to the Clinton County Mailing List. You can search the archives of the list by entering ILCLINTO in the Rootsweb search facility.

As people request individual obituraries, I post them to the Clinton County Mailing List and to this website at: Carlyle Union Banner Obituaries.

In the process of indexing these obituaries, I have found several that connect to my families, as a result, the information in my database has grown. I have updated my Complete Surname List and will update the TNG On-Line Database shortly. In the mean time, please feel free to email me with any questions.

Frankie

Ancestry.com has moved Rootsweb under the ancestory.com domain. There was some discussion that individual contributors would no longer maintain the copywrite on their contributions so many of the websites have moved. I’ve updated my favorite links to point to the new addresses.

Although we have seen copies of marriage records and more, it is hard to tell if my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was named Jubel or Iubel.

Anyhow, I found and fixed a couple of errors so am now reposting the ancestor reports on my father, Carl Fred HEINZMANN.

Even with all the preparation for the wedding, I found digging at the roots of the family tree was relaxing and refreshing.

I dug through some information from Wayne Leidwanger and Judy Linenfelser. Our common ancestor appears to be my great-great-great grandmother, Maria Franziska Rödler (1804-1882), wife of Johann Valentin Heinzmann (1784-1848). Their work has taken me back another 6 generations.

I have updated the surname list and hope to update the reports for my father, Carl Heinzmann, soon.