Our purpose is to assist genealogical researchers by sharing documentation and sources that we have acquired over many years of research.
This site is continually being updated and added to,
so if you don't find anything of interest this visit,
come back in a few days or weeks and check again.
Documents initially included on our site will be
related to ancestors who lived in Tennessee,
North Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, the state of Washington,
east Central Illinois, our home base, and a few other scattered
locations. Gradually, we hope to add many more areas.
If you would like to contribute copies or transcriptions
of original records to this
project, we welcome your help. Records from any area welcome!
We don't intend to publish lineages, family group sheets or family books.
(Please, don't send any of them at this time.)
However, we welcome copies of the documents that substantiate the information
contained in those group sheets, books, and lineages.
We hope that some of the documents available on this web site
may help you to document your own lineage and/or put you in contact with others
researching your lines. We will gladly include addresses of submitters
who share their information.
We will post documents as quickly as time allows.
The records you submit from your own collections will
be added as time becomes available.
Copies and transcriptions of birth, death, probate records,
wills, and obituaries are some of the items we need.
In the future, we may add new books of transcribed records
[such as school records] for references that may give you
a direction to go in your research.
Computer generated text files or .jpeg files preferred.
Please e-mail them to:
joyce@kinfolkskorner.com
Your items will be added in the order received.
If making computer generated copies isn't possible,
please mail hard copies to:
Kinfolks Korner
Attn: Ancestor Hunters
P.O. Box 228
Sadorus, IL 61872-0228
Your items will be added in the order received.
Please be sure to note the complete source of the document, including,
for example, for an obituary, name, place, date, page and column number
on the FRONT of the document. If there is not room on the front, place
it on the back. The reason for placing the documentation on the front
is that often, researchers pass on copies of the front, but do not
always include a copy of the back.
If you don't know the source, state "source not known" and give whatever
information you do have. Even though the document's source is unknown, it may
still prove valuable if one follows up on the names and places it contains.