Things to do: Biggert sets office hours

Rep. Judy Biggert will host traveling office hours for constituents of the 13th District to ask questions and offer comments from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Lisle Police Department, 5040 Lincoln Ave., Lisle.

Things to do

John Angotti, award winning composer and Catholic recording artist, will celebrate the start of a new ministry year with a performance of his popular praise music at 7:30 at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville.

Wood Co. seeks personal tales from Civil War

By JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER In April, 1865, a Perrysburg family paid the government to ship home the body of their son who died from infection and gangrene after he was wounded in a Civil War battle. However, the body of a young Confederate soldier, dressed in gray, was sent instead. The family buried the Confederate soldier in the grave that had been dug for their son Henry Carter, the ...

Pow wow honors Native American culture, heritage

GALLIPOLIS — A celebration of Native American culture and heritage came to a conclusion as the sun dipped toward the tree line on Labor Day as the fourth annual Harvest Moon Pow Wow ended its three...

Shenandoah crash still remembered 85 years later

MARIETTA - In the 1940s, Bryan Rayner's grandfather purchased two farms in the Noble County community of Ava, farms where pieces of the United States' first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah, crashed in 1925.

Across The Generations -- More websites to lend a hand with your searches

You will remember in past columns covering the best 130 genealogy websites, sites that required a fee were shown with a dollar sign ($). That continues in this column and where a site has already been shown in a column, only the name and website will be shown.