Adams County, Illinois Genealogy

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Parent County
1825--Adams County was created 13 January 1825 from Pike County. County seat: Quincy

Populated Places
Adams County is a rural county located in west central Illinois. Most of the population lives in Quincy, which is on the Mississippi River. www.co.adams.il.us/ - 18k

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Lima
 * Quincy

Newspapers
The Quincy Public Library Newspaper Archive is a great resource for learning about everyday life in Adams County, Illinois from 1835 through 1919. In addition to mentions of births, marriages, and deaths, the newspapers also include details of family celebrations (and feuds), delinquent taxes, unclaimed letters at the Post Office, out of town guests, and the travels of local community members. Legal notices and mentions of crop failures or outbreaks of certain diseases were also published.

The archive is indexed and searchable, and linked to images of the actual pages. You can view either the article alone, or the entire page where it appears. To learn more about the area at the time your ancestors lived there, click on [Browse the Archive] and select a particular timeframe.

Newspapers included in the archive:


 * Quincy Daily Herald
 * Quincy Daily Journal
 * Quincy Daily Whig
 * Quincy Morning Whig
 * Quincy Herald
 * Quincy Whig Republican
 * Quincy Whig

Web Sites

 * Family History Library Catalog