One of my favorite genealogical finds is discovering early in my research the hometowns of my great-grandparents, Johan Anton Hork and Julia Ann Sievert. It all started when I found the civil marriage of the couple in a Will County, Illinois marriage book on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. At the bottom was the return, filled out by the German Catholic Priest of St. Johns Church in Joliet, Frank Noble. He married Antony Hork and Julia Anna Siewert on 6 June 1872. [1] Taking the information I found on the civil record, I searched out the Catholic Church and mailed a query asking for a copy of the church record of the marriage. This was back in 1997, in the early days of my genealogy journey. I tried to document what I was doing and have an entry in my correspondence log that I sent a letter. What I received was a photocopy of the two-page spread for the marriage of Anton and Julia. Because this was a German catholic church, and Germans are such great recor...
Researching: Davey, Gleeson, Gorrell, Hork, Hutson, Johnston, Jones, Lundquist, Nilsen, Selman, Sievert, Sullivan, Tierney, & Wollenweber.