Where this family lived, worked, fought, and died.
10 places, from Czaraholand in lower Bavaria to a B-24 airfield in Norfolk.
Home of the Barnes family — Brant Hindman's maternal grandparents Bud Barnes and Hope Barnes, their three daughters Judy, Janice (Brant's mother), and Jill. Janice married Bill Hindman, bringing the Barnes and Hindman lines together. Decatur is the maternal geographic anchor of Brant's lineage.
Final residence and death place of William John 'Bill' Hindman (2025), Brant's father. Bill was married to Kathy Hindman at the time of his death; per Brant, Kathy did not arrange an obituary or a funeral.
Catch-all place for ancestors with a state-level but no city-level birth record on FamilySearch. Use sparingly.
Birthplace of William John Hindman, December 12, 1945.
Small village in Clay County, central-southern Illinois. Home of the Blair family on Brant's maternal side. Birthplace of Hope (Georgia Hope Blair, 15-22 Oct 1922). Iola Cemetery contains Garnet Othal Blair (1897-1965), Margaret Angeline 'Angie' Zink Blair (1898-1967), and their probable sons Lindall Dale Blair (1918-1937, died young) and Oval W. Blair (1920-2002).
County seat of Clay County Illinois. Per web sources Hope (Georgia Hope Blair) was born in Louisville 15 Oct 1922 (note Find a Grave gives 22 Oct 1922 — likely transcription variation).
Central-southern Illinois county. Home of the Blair family (Garnet Othal Blair, Margaret Angeline Zink Blair, and their children including Brant's grandmother Hope). Towns include Louisville (county seat) and Iola.
Township in Clay County Illinois. Center of the Glascow/Glasco family on the maternal Barnes side. Death place of Lousiana A. Glascow (1935 age 87) and Mary E. Glasco (1947). Distinct from Iola Township where the Blair and Barnes clusters are buried.
Central Illinois county. Origin of the Deister family (Charles Albert Deister b. 7 Feb 1904) before they relocated to Decatur Macon County.
Origin state of Mary Elizabeth Limes (~1840), Brant's maternal 3rd-great-grandmother on the Toliver side. The Limes/Toliver families came from Lawrence/Orange Counties Indiana into Clay County Illinois pre-1858.