Welcome to Jim and Betty Gill's family history homepage. We hope you will find something useful here. We'd like to hear from you. Click "E-mail us" on the navigation bar.

Our genealogy program of choice is RootsMagic from Formal Soft. Since we have migrated through several genealogy programs over the years, some information is not as well presented or documented as we would like. However, now that Jim's retired (or close to it), one of his goals is to improve that situation. This website will always be a work in progress and he hopes to update it often. Click the "Genealogy" link on the navigation bar.

Betty's father, Paul B Hendrickson, was a veteran of World War I. When he passed away, we found neatly packed away in the family home 125 letters he wrote home to his mother and to the neighbor girl who after the war became his wife. We also found a diary kept during the year he was in France and almost 300 postcards which were sent home either individually or in envelopes. In addition, we have letters sent to him, negatives and prints taken at Camp Parker in Quincy, Ill., and at Camp Logan in Houston, Texas, and maps he drew of both camps. Much of this legacy has been added to his website. More will be added as time permits. Click the "World War I" link in the navigation bar.