January – February 25 Newsletter

Dear Members and Friends of LCHGS, As 2024 closes and we move forward into 2025 we want to thank all the volunteers and board members for their expertise in their work at 113 S. Hennepin Ave. Every one of the staff has a specialty that we call on to accomplish preserving history, research requests, and office duties. The Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society is a very important part of the history and genealogy of the residents past and present of Lee County. If you walked into the library, the staff could research a Lee County family by using our records of births, deaths, and cemeteries. They have the use of Dixon, Amboy, Ashton, and Franklin Grove Newspapers going back into the 1800s. The high School yearbooks for the towns in Lee County and information about all the country schools are also available. We have military history for all the wars and have histories of the churches in Lee County. The Historical books that we have are amazing. They were written in the 1800s and 1900s and pretty much tell the story of Lee County back to when the Native Americans lived here. We also have in our library many genealogies that people have completed and donated back