Excerpt from Index to the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society and Other Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. 1: A-K; Including Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, I-III, Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, IV-XLIII, Papers in Illinois History XLIV-XLIX Although almost every volume of the Publications had its own index, up to this time there has been no way to tell in which volume a particular name or article appeared, other than the scattered references in the 95 -page Gene ral Index to Collections, Journals, Publications, 1899 -1928, prepared in 1930 by Juliet Gilman Sager. A comparison of the size of that volume with the 1317 pages of the present index, covering the Publications only, will show at a glance how much more exhaustive this volume is. Where names appeared in an erroneous form in the Publications articles, and the correct form has been found, the latter is used. For clarity and con sistency, the names in the old French records have been put into the same forn as those used for English names; married women indexed under their husbands' surnames, Jr. Replacing fils, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.