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American Local History Network - Illinois

Ancestor Search - Illinois Genealogy Search Engines

Ancestors: Resource Guide - Illinois

Contact information for archives, libraries, genealogical & historical societies, church records and ethnic resources.

Ancestry.com - Illinois Genealogy & Illinois Family History Resources

The previous version can still be found here: Ancestry.com - Illinois Genealogy - Databases, Sources, How To's

Ancestry.com Wiki - Illinois Family History Research ^FREE

The Ancestry.com Wiki includes helpful content from two classic genealogical publications--The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, and the Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.

Ancestry.com Wiki - Illinois Family History Research

This entry was originally written by Carol L. Maki and Michael John Neill for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

ePodunk

Provides ancestral demographics & categorized links to other genealogy sites.

Family Tree Connection - Illinois Resources

Search the listings for free, view full details with a fee-based subscription.

FamilySearch - Location Research - Illinois ^FREE

FamilySearch brought together tools to help you with your research in this state: indexed historical records, image-only historical records, and links to the FHL catalog and the FamilySearch Wiki.

Fold3 - Illinois Records $

Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

G's Adoption Registry - Illinois

Genealogy and Family History Research in Illinois

Genealogy Buff - Library - Illinois Data

Data files for many counties including obituaries, death notices, marriage indexes, death indexes, baptisms, and births.

Genealogy Inc. - Illinois Genealogy, Facts and Records Resources

Genealogy Quest - Free Genealogical Records for Illinois

Genealogy Trails - Illinois Genealogy Trails

Volunteers working together to transcribe records: biographies, cemeteries, court records, family Bibles, obituaries, newspapers, vitals, marriages, & more.

GenealogyBank.com - Illinois $

GenealogyBank's collection includes modern obituaries, historical newspapers, books, pamphlets, military records, and government documents. The 2,400+ historical newspapers include letters, speeches, opinion pieces, advertisements, hometown news, photographs, illustrations and more. Searchable database results shown, images available with a fee-based subscription.

Illinois Ancestors

Illinois Ancestors provides free data for the west central region of Illinois plus state-wide data for cemeteries, veterans burials, Swedish ancestors and much more to come.

Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Northeast 25 Counties

The detail of every town and township (former name, present name, township, date of incorporation, elevation, railroads, Post Office dates of operation, present mailing address, 1990 population) known to have existed is listed alphabetically by county, and all sources are cited. Please keep in mind it was typical to have several towns by the same common name scattered across the state, so if you are looking for 19th century towns on a 21st century map you are creating your own brick walls.