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Illinois Genealogy Records Online
Illinois Biographies Illinois Census Records Illinois Cemeteries- Illinois Cemetery Records
- Revolutionary War Graves of Soldiers Buried in Illinois
- National and State Veterans Cemeteries in Illinois
- 1818 Pensioners of the United States: Illinois Territory
- 1820 Pension List: Illinois
- 1835 Illinois Pension Roll
- 1840 Illinois Census of Pensioners
- Illinois Pensioners Of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
- 1883 Illinois Pensioners on the Roll
- Revolutionary War Graves of Soldiers Buried in Illinois
- World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing for Illinois
Illinois Obituaries
Illinois Genealogy by County
County | Date of Information | Parent County | County Seat |
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Adams County | 1825 | Pike | Quincy |
Alexander County | 1819 | Union | Cairo |
Bond County | 1818 | Madison | Greenville |
Boone County | 1836 | Winnebago | Belvidere |
Brown County | 1837 | Schuyler | Mount Sterling |
Bureau County | 1837 | Putnam | Princeton |
Calhoun County | 1825 | Pike | Hardin |
Carroll County | 1839 | Jo Daviess | Mount Carroll |
Cass County | 1837 | Morgan | Virginia |
Champaign County | 1833 | Vermilion | Urbana |
Christian County | 1839 | Dane (Montgomery, Sangamon, Shelby) | Taylorville |
Clark County | 1819 | Crawford | Marshall |
Clay County | 1824 | Crawford, Fayette, Wayne | Louisville |
Clinton County | 1824 | Bond, Washington | Carlyle |
Coles County | 1830 | Clark, Edgar | Charleston |
Cook County | 1831 | Putnam | Chicago |
Crawford County | 1816 * | Edwards (IT) | Robinson |
Cumberland County | 1843 | Coles | Toledo |
Dane County | 1839 | Montgomery, Sangamon, Shelby | Extinct-1840 |
DeKalb County | 1837 | Kane | Sycamore |
DeWitt County | 1839 | Macon, McLean | Clinton |
Douglas County | 1859 | Coles | Tuscola |
DuPage County | 1839 | Cook | Wheaton |
Edgar County | 1823 | Clark | Paris |
Edwards County | 1814* | Gallatin, Madison (IT) | Albion |
Effingham County | 1831 | Crawford, Fayette | Effingham |
Fayette County | 1821 | Bond, Clark, Crawford, Jefferson | Vandalia |
Ford County | 1859 | unorganized (Vermilion) | Paxton |
Franklin County | 1818* | Gallatin, White | Benton |
Fulton County | 1823 | Pike | Lewistown |
Gallatin County | 1812* | Randolph (IT) | Shawneetown |
Greene County | 1821 | Madison | Carrollton |
Grundy County | 1841 | LaSalle | Morris |
Hamilton County | 1821 | White | McLeansboro |
Hancock County | 1825 | Pike | Carthage |
Hardin County | 1839 | Gallatin, Pope | Elizabethtown |
Henderson County | 1841 | Warren | Oquawka |
Henry County | 1825 | unorganized (Fulton) | Cambridge |
Iroquois County | 1833 | unorganized (Vermilion) | Watseka |
Jackson County | 1816* | Johnson, Randolph | Murphysboro |
Jasper County | 1831 | Clay, Crawford | Newton |
Jefferson County | 1819 | Edwards, White | Mt. Vernon |
Jersey County | 1839 | Greene | Jerseyville |
JoDaviess County | 1827 | Henry, Putnam | Galena |
Johnson County | 1812* | Randolph (IT) | Vienna |
Kane County | 1836 | unorganized (LaSalle), Cook | Geneva |
Kankakee County | 1853 | Ford, Iroquois, Will | Kankakee |
Kendall County | 1841 | LaSalle, Kane | Yorkville |
Knox County | 1825 | unorganized (Fulton), Fulton, Henry | Galesburg |
Knox | * | Northwest Territory | Extinct-see Knox |
Lake County | 1839 | McHenry | Waukegan |
LaSalle County | 1831 | Putnam, unorganized (Tazewell) | Ottawa |
Lawrence County | 1821 | Crawford, Edwards | Lawrenceville |
Lee County | 1839 | Ogle | Dixon |
Livingston County | 1837 | LaSalle, McLean, unorganized (Vermilion?) | Pontiac |
Logan County | 1839 | McLean, Sangamon, Tazewell | Lincoln |
Macon County | 1829 | unorganized (Shelby) | Decatur |
Macoupin County | 1829 | unorganized (Greene), Madison | Carlinville |
Madison County | 1812* | St. Clair (IT) | Edwardsville |
Marion County | 1823 | Fayette, Jefferson | Salem |
Marshall County | 1839 | Putnam, LaSalle | Lacon |
Mason County | 1841 | Menard, Tazewell | Havana |
Massac County | 1843 | Johnson, Pope | Metropolis |
McDonough County | 1826 | Schuyler | Macomb |
McHenry County | 1836 | Cook, unorganized (LaSalle) | Woodstock |
McLean County | 1830 | Tazewell, unorganized (Tazewell) | Bloomington |
Menard County | 1839 | Sangamon | Petersburg |
Mercer County | 1825 | unorganized (Pike) | Aledo |
Monroe County | 1816* | Randolph, St. Clair | Waterloo |
Montgomery County | 1821 | Bond, Madison | Hillsboro |
Morgan County | 1823 | unorganized (Greene), Sangamon | Jacksonville |
Moultrie County | 1843 | Macon, Shelby | Sullivan |
Ogle County | 1836 | Jo Daviess, unorganized (LaSalle) | Oregon |
Peoria County | 1825 | Fulton, unorganized (Fulton) | Peoria |
Perry County | 1827 | Jackson, Randolph | Pickneyville |
Piatt County | 1841 | DeWitt, Macon | Monticello |
Pike County | 1821 | Madison | Pittsfield |
Pope County | 1816* | Gallatin, Johnson | Golconda |
Pulaski County | 1843 | Alexander, Johnson | Mound City |
Putnam County | 1825 | unorganized (Edgar, Fulton) | Hennepin |
Randolph County | 1795* | St. Clair, Northwest Territory | Chester |
Richland County | 1841 | Clay, Lawrence | Olney |
Rock Island County | 1831 | Jo Daviess | Rock Island |
Saline County | 1847 | Gallatin | Harrisburg |
Sangamon County | 1821 | Bond, Madison | Springfield |
Schuyler County | 1825 | Pike, unorganized (Pike) | Rushville |
Scott County | 1839 | Morgan | Winchester |
Shelby County | 1827 | Fayette | Shelbyville |
Stark County | 1839 | Knox, Putnam | Toulon |
St. Clair County | 1790* | Northwest Territory | Belleville |
Stephenson County | 1837 | Jo Daviess, Winnebago | Freeport |
Tazewell County | 1827 | unorganized (Peoria), Fayette | Pekin |
Union County | 1818 * | Johnson, Jackson | Jonesboro |
Vermilion County | 1826 | unorganized (Edgar) | Danville |
Wabash County | 1824 | Edwards | Mount Carmel |
Warren County | 1825 | unorganized (Pike) | Monmouth |
Washington County | 1818* | St. Clair | Nashville |
Wayne County | 1819 | Edwards | Fairfield |
White County | 1815* | Madison (IT) | Carmi |
Whiteside County | 1836 | Jo Daviess, Henry | Morrison |
Will County | 1836 | Cook, Iroquois | Joliet |
Williamson County | 1839 | Franklin | Marion |
Winnebago County | 1836 | JoDaviess, unorganized (LaSalle) | Rockford |
Woodford County | 1841 | McLean, Tazewell | Eureka |
Definitions:
*county formed before Illinois became a state
(IT) Illinois Territory
See also: Illinois County Formatioin maps
Genealogical Research in Illinois
Illinois State Library
Gwendolyn Brooks Building
300 S. Second St.
Springfield, IL 62701−1796
217-785-5600
800-665-5576 (Illinois Residents)
https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/home.html
Illinois State Archives
Springfield office:
Margaret Cross Norton Bldg.
Capitol Complex
Springfield, IL 62756
217-782-4682
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/
Illinois State Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 10195
Springfield, IL 62791-0195
Telephone: (217) 789-1968
Email: isgsoffice@ilgensoc.org
http://www.ilgensoc.org/
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