Prompt:  Make a research task list. Posting these items to will help you get your tasks done, and may encourage readers to do the same.

Great timing!  I have two trips coming up, neither of which is a research trip, although I intend to do a few genealogy-related things while I’m away.

First off, tomorrow, I’m off to Springfield, Illinois, to attend some cemetery-related events with fellow GYR Minda and other cemetery-enthusiasts.  Before meeting up with them, I’m going to head to the state archives, which is conveniently open on the first Saturday of the month (well planned, Minda!!!).  Here’s my to-do list for tomorrow:


Name To Do
Anna E STOFFEL Death Certificate
Amelia Death Certificate
Wilhelm ‘William’ TRAPP Death Certificate
Henry Emil WACH Death Certificate
John SCHWARTZ Death Certificate
Timothy J McMAHON Death Certificate
Sarah Jane ‘Jeanie’ MULLIGAN Death Certificate
Emil MILLER Death Certificate
Mary or Anna BRAUN?? Death Certificate
Charles or Carl STOFFEL Death Certificate
Hulda WACH Death Certificate
Emil MILLER Death Certificate
Timothy McMAHON Death Certificate
Margaret RYAN Death Certificate
Bridget Death Certificate
Thomas Robert CAHILL Death Certificate
Margaret ‘Maggie’ MILLETT Death Certificate
Francis ‘Frank’ HAACKE Marriage Certificate

Next weekend, I’m off to Chicago for an appointment with yet another specialist (how many medical specialties are there?).  My appointment’s on Monday, but I’m going for the weekend to spend some time with family and friends, as well as do a little cemetery hunting.  Here’s my to-do list for next weekend:

Name Locality
Elmer W F TRAPP Acadia Park-Belle Plain, Chicago
Margaret A ‘Maggie’ MURNANE Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, IL
James Norton GARRISON Elm Lawn Cemetery, Elmhurst, IL
Herman LEPPIN Elmwood Park, River Grove, IL
Henry August LEPPIN Elmwood Park, River Grove, IL
Minnie HAEMFIFLER Elmwood Park, River Grove, IL
Charles L STOFFEL Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Charles or Carl STOFFEL Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Clarence M CAHILL Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, IL
George ROTTMAN Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago
Anna E STOFFEL Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago
Edward George ROTTMAN Ivanhoe Cemetery, Mundelien, IL
Timothy J McMAHON Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Sarah Jane WARD Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Thomas Robert CAHILL Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Margaret ‘Maggie’ MILLETT Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Margaret RYAN Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ V McMAHON Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Jerimiah ‘Jerry’ William McMAHON Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
John Joseph McMAHON Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Nellie McMAHON Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
James Manly GARRISON Oakridge Cemetery, Hillside, IL
Mary or Anna BRAUN?? Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Margaret STOFFEL Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, IL

These are stripped-down versions of my full to-do lists, which are generated from the tasks I enter in Legacy.