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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Springfield, Illinois. The Library is a public, non-circulating research facility that contains material on all aspects of Illinois' history. Particularly noteworthy are the Library's holdings in published resources, manuscripts, newspapers, audiovisual & Lincolniana.
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Augustana College - Thomas Tredway Library
Rock Island, Illinois.
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Including photographs, Civil War diaries, some biographies and more.
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Digital State Archives - Illinois
There's something not quite right when the online state archives for Illinois can only rustle up 42 documents on Abraham Lincoln. Still, the archives have some valuable collections for family history research. There are muster rolls here from the Civil War, town directories, old newspaper archives, and a scary looking clown. Do check it out.
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Digitized Collections | Northwestern University Library
Located in Evanston, Illinois. The Digitized Collections include: archival and manuscript collection finding aids, photograph collections, maps, books and more.
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A free, centralized, web-based search engine and record-finding tool that will allow researchers, teachers, students, and the general public to locate or access over 100,000 maps, photos, letters, and other archival materials held at its member institutions. These twenty-one members include the likes of the Chicago History Museum and the Newberry Library.
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FamilySearch - Family History Center Locator: Illinois
From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.
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From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.
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Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET)
A statewide library alliance, representing over 3,000 academic, public, school and special libraries that are members of Illinois' library systems (RAILS, IHLS and CPLS).
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Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogy Society
Includes a research library and Heritage Center located in Metamora, Illinois. The library collection began with the organizational meeting of IMHGS in 1969. Anabaptist history, records and stories from Mennonite and Amish families, congregations, and community life are the focus of the collection. It now includes encyclopedias and historical works, periodicals, family, county and congregational histories; indexes to ship passenger lists, census and marriage records on microfilm and microfiche, lists on CD ROMs and files of clippings, correspondence, fliers, pamphlets, and unpublished notes, letters and diaries.
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Union.
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The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.
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Local Government Records Database
The Local Government Records Database provides a listing of the local governmental records held by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) system. Local governmental records include those from county, city, town, village, and township levels throughout Illinois. Numerous offices are represented from these levels. The record holdings of the IRAD system include over 5,400 different record series.
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Local Government Records Database
The Local Government Records Database provides a listing of the local governmental records held by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) system. Local governmental records include those from county, city, town, village, and township levels throughout Illinois. Numerous offices are represented from these levels. The record holdings of the IRAD system include over 5,400 different record series.
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Index of Repositories in the St. Louis Area
Missouri. From the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists. Links to repostitories, contact information, and description of holdings.
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LibDex - The Library Index - Illinois
A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).
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