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GLEANINGS
From the Heart of the Cornbelt

"Many Kernels Make A Harvest"

Gleanings From the Heart of the Cornbelt is the genealogical/historical journal of The McLean County Genealogical Society.  It has been published either quarterly or biannually since 1967.  Currently, Gleanings is published in the spring and fall and mailed to MCGS members, societies, and libraries throughout the United States. 

FIND YOUR MCLEAN COUNTY ANCESTORS! Place a query in our bi-annual journal, GLEANINGS Deadline:  Aug. 15, 2011 for the fall issue.  Email the Editor with your query and/or other items at:  Editor@MCGS.org

We welcome queries, photographs, documents, and genealogical/historical articles relating to McLean County, IL.  If there is something you think would be of interest to our readers, please email Susan Scoville Pope, Editor, or contact her by postal mail to the Society:  P.O. Box 488, Normal, IL 61761.

Gleanings 40-Year Indexes!
The following PDF files were prepared
by Board Member Ruth Wilkerson.  These files require Adobe Acrobat Reader (free)--Download it here.
Alphabetical Index  /  Yearly Index

2005-2006 Gleanings Contents

Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 2005 Spelling School Scraps Saybrook’s Unknown Soldier Carson Obituary Luman Burr, McLean County Years Old Time Storekeepers of McLean County Here and There 1875 Streid Obituary Bloomington Car Owners Sheriffs of McLean County 1875 Commercial Agency Register Panic of 1837 Internal Revenue 1875 Pepple Obituary Payne Obituary Botherman Accident Surname Index	Volume 39, Number 2, Fall 2005 Railroad Worker Fatalities, 1856-1930 Train Time at Bloomington Nicknames for the Bobtails Road the First Locomotive West Side News The Valentines, "Greatest Flying Act" McLean County Place Names Collided with an Automobile McLean County Auto Owners, April 1909 McLean County Federal Pensioners 1883 Stillhamer Civil War Death Notification 1875 Commercial Agency Register The City:  Business News Sheriffs of McLean County Orendorff Obituary Stringfield Obituary Queries Surname Index
Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2006 Invitation A Humble Beginning Searching for Manoah Swaim Polly Orr White Obituary 1895 Mount Hope Towns and Schools Local Lincoln Recollections The Miller Cemetery "Miller Time" (timeline) Heyworth's roots and News Clips Sheriffs of McLean County Industrial Survey of Bloomington & Normal Harriet Wilmeth & William Osten Obituaries Mysteries from the Archives Surname Index	Volume 40, Number 2, Fall 2006 Fall Conference Sheriffs of McLean County Labor vs. Capitol:  1885 Coal Miner Strike The Miners Call Local Lincoln Recollections Samuel Taflinger Obituary Aunty McCreery McLean County’s First Teacher Delilah Mullen-Evans Bloomington’s Teachers 1892 McLean County Old Settlers’ Association Membership and Deceased Members 1892 Survivors of 1830:  Early Pioneers of Bloomington Township Bloomington Fire Department Passing of Capt. Broad Corman Bloomington Fire Department Fatalities 1912-1928 List of Big Fires to 1930 Oscar Mandel Obituary Obituary Surname Index (Died in McLean Co., Buried Elsewhere) Mysteries from the Archives Queries Surname Index
Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 2007 McLean Co. Combined Indexed Atlases The Search for Philip Crose This and That McLean Co. Poor Farm, Analysis of Census Data McLean Co. Poor Farm Related Items from The Pantagraph Genealogy Happens--The Verry Family Suicides Reported in Bloomington Newspapers, Part I, 1857-1899 Bloomington Fire Department, Henry Mayer Obituary Sheriffs of McLean County: Vinton E. Howell Arrowsmith School Mysteries from the Archives Queries Surname Index	Volume 41, Number 2, Fall 2007 McLean Co. Combined Indexed Atlases Hudson Cemetery Book From the Simple to the Sublime: The Hudson Experience Honest John Moore Suicides Reported in Bloomington Newspapers, Part II, 1900-1930 Great Airship Mystery Leroy's Living Veterans & War Widows (1916) Graves of Old Soldiers Bloomington Fire Department Has Three Husbands: Wise, Chandler, Kent Sheriffs of McLean County: Bishop, Stone, Johnson After Fifteen Years Engelhorn Obituary Mysteries from the Archives Queries Surname Index
Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2008   Hudson Cemetery Book “Page From Our Past” Index Percheron Horses in McLean County Cooksville Clippings Stories from Microfilm:  Stevenson and Walene families Sheriffs of McLean County:  Edwards, Moore, Reeder, Flesher Mysteries from the Archives Queries The McLean County Combined Indexed Atlases Surname Index	Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2008 Bloomington cigar Manufacturers The Last of the Plainsmen:  A Trace of Zane, and A House Full of Nichols Snow Birds:  Roster of Old McLean County Settlers Normal's First Newspaper, A Treasured Shared Cooksville Clippings Some Forgotten Towns Sheriffs of McLean County: Spafford, Morrison, Nierstheimer Mysteries from the Archives Queries Surname Index

 

 

The following PDF files provide the complete 2005-2008 surname indexes:

Gleanings Spring 2005 Surname Index

Gleanings Fall 2005 Surname Index
Gleanings Spring 2006 Surname Index

Gleanings Fall 2006 Surname Index
Gleanings Spring 2007 Surname Index
Gleanings Fall 2007 Surname Index
Gleanings Spring 2008 Surname Index