Barbara Ryan

 

Introduction

These abstracts contain not only births, marriages, and deaths, but also information from “gossip” columns that would be helpful in searching for ancestors. This includes “visits” that include a relationship or a different surname that includes the relationship, that is “… Mrs. John Smith of Buffalo, NY, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Brown, in Hinsdale”, “Mr. John Brown has moved to Los Angeles”, etc. Some listings are abstracts, others in which the articles were very short include the full text. The date at the end of the listing is the date of the issue of the newspaper. The volume and number are shown at the first listing for the date. When the same information was reported in several issues, for example “Mrs. John Smith of Buffalo has returned home after visiting …”, I have only included the information once. The symbol in an abstract indicates the information following was in a separate article in the same issue.

The newspapers are available on microfilm at Hinsdale Public Library but will not be loaned on interlibrary from there.
The microfilm can be borrowed on interlibrary loan from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois

Abstracts