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Your Coordinator for this site is: Kim Randolph     

I welcome all comments, suggestions and contributions you might have for making this site as useful as possible for your family history research.  Please remember, I only post things that are given to me by volunteers.  This site belongs to YOU, not me.  It can only grow with your help.  

Centralia, IL Coal Mine Disaster, March 1947   The video below was submitted by Becky Wheeler, whose great great Grandfather was Pietro Ballantini. Her son made it for a history Fair Project on the Centralia Mine Disaster.  His project  advanced to the next level of competition at Carbondale.  His project scored a perfect score (200) and a Superior First Place ranking.  He completed the video to sit in front of his project.   The song, "The Dying Miner" was written by Woody Guthrie and published May 1947.  The letters he read from the dying miners was his inspiration.  This video is very moving. MARION COUNTY QUERIES, SURNAMES & RECORDS Marion County Queries & Surnames BIRTHS Marion County Births before 1910 MARRIAGES Marion County Marriages

CEMETERIES Marion County Cemeteries You'll need a roundtrip ticket here!    NOTE: The transcription of these cemeteries were made available by volunteers.  If there are any errors please try to understand that these people are volunteering out of the goodness of their hearts.  Sometimes it is hard to read dates, names, places on old tombstones.  Illinois Gravestone Photos

MILITARY Military Records  LOOKUPS, PUBLICATIONS and RESOURCES Census, Cemeteries & Other Lookups                   Old Records From Centralia Sentinel Marion County Courthouse Broadway & Main St. Salem, IL 62881-0637 Telephone: (618) 548-3400 TOWNSHIPS   Marion County Townships OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST    Interesting Tidbits NEIGBORING COUNTIES Marion County is located in Southern Illinois and is bordered by Bond , Clay , Clinton , Effingham , Fayette , Jefferson , Washington and Wayne counties.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

--George Bernard Shaw

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