DeWitt County, Illinois Genealogy

United States  Illinois  DeWitt County

Parent County

 * 1839--DeWitt County was created 1 March 1839 from Macon and McLean Counties. County seat: Clinton

Neighboring Counties

 * Logan
 * Macon
 * McLean
 * Piatt

African American
The following have information concerning African American research.


 * African American Research (US) has more information about the kinds of records


 * Illinois State Archives pamphlet on African American Research describes what records are at the State Archives with an online method for ordering records.
 * African-American Resources for Illinois

Cemeteries
Illinois cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation.


 * Find A Grave can be searched by the name of a person or family to find where a person is buried. Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.  May give obituaries, names of family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.


 * Find A Grave also gives a list of cemeteries in DeWitt County and links to the information for the individuals buried there.


 * witt.htm DeWitt Co. IL USGenWeb Tombstone Project usually gives the names of the deceased in alphabetical order by last name with birth and death dates plus any remarks.


 * Illinois Cemeteries by county.


 * The Family History Library Catalog lists . Some of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.


 * ePodunk list of DeWitt County cemeteries gives the names of the cemeteries in the county with a link to more information such as address, phone number, and web site.


 * Cemeteries of DeWitt County Illinois

Census
For tips on accessing census records online, see Illinois Census.

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Clinton
 * Farmer City

Local Histories

 * Portrait and Biographical Album of DeWitt and Piatt Counties, Illinois. Chicago: Chapman Brothers Publishing Company, 1891.

Maps

 * Cemetary Maps of DeWitt County

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from DeWitt County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Dewitt County.
 * - 41st Regiment, Illinois Infantry
 * - Company C
 * - Company F

Societies and Libraries
DeWitt County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 632 Clinton, Illinois 61717-0632

dewittcgs@yahoo.com

This library has extensive DeWitt County only extractions of many census. They have marriage index. They publish a quarterly Journal with extracts about people from old newspapers that include births, marriages and funerals. The also include little family notices about who was visiting who and who was at weddings and other family news items.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * DeWitt County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * DeWitt County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)