Obituary Hints at a Railroad Pension

This is part of the obituary for my uncle James Mundy that was recently posted to GenealogyBank.com and originally appeared in the Peoria, Illinois Journal-Star. James' wife Louise was my great-grandfather Trautvetter's sister. I never really knew much about the Mundys other than they lived in Peoria.

James' obituary indicated that he was an engineer for the railroad and had worked for the railroad for forty years upon his retirement.

Date: Monday, August 11, 1952  

Paper: Journal Star (Peoria, IL) 

--obtained on GenealogyBank.com

I've decided to see if there are any Railroad Retirement Board records for James. It's not often I have an uncle in this time period who has a job that may generate any type of employment or retirement records--my direct ancestors and most of their siblings were farmers.

Based upon information on the National Archives-Atlanta website, the Retirement Board records for James are in their collection. I've got a request in to see if there are records for James.

Stay tuned.

World Cat Can't Find What Google Books Did

This screen shot is from a search of Google Books for "james mundy peoria." This was an attempt to locate material on my uncle who lived in Peoria, Illinois, from approximately 1900 until his death in the early 1950s.

I have census and other information on James--what I'm after is a copy of the reference shown in the search of Google Books as shown above. Only a snippet of the item can be seen as it's not out of copyright as it was published in 1950.

Clicking on the link to find the the item "in a libary" did not work either. We're working on locating a copy of the reference and will have a blog post as soon as I've been able to locate an actual copy of the material.