Daily Genealogist

Cook County Poor Farm to Be Preserved
A site twenty-five miles south of Chicago, which served as a working farm, an infirmary, and a burial ground for Cook County's indigents, will become the Oak Forest Heritage Preserve. If funding can be secured, the second phase of the project will allow access to records of the 90,000 people buried in the cemetery.

Watch Collector’s Find Brings a Lincolnesque Journey
A Duxbury, Mass., resident discovered that a watch he purchased on eBay had a fascinating history.