Illinois Online Genealogy Records

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• Global Database Search Illinois State Archives
• Illinois Genealogy directory of resources
  
  

• Illinois, Births and Christenings, 1824-1940 Index only.
• Cook County Birth Registers, 1871-1915.
• Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1938.
• Cook County Birth Index, 1916-1935 ($)
  
  

• United States Marriages – Illinois, 1587-1959 ($) index
• Illinois State Archives, Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900.
• Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860 Index only ($)
• Illinois Marriages 1791 to 1850 Index only ($)
• [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61370 Illinois, County Marriages, 1800-1940, ($), Index
• Illinois, Church Marriages, 1805-1985 — index
• Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934 — index and images
• Illinois, Marriages, 1815-1935 Index only.
• Illinois, Civil Marriages, 1833-1889 — index
• Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889 Index only ($)
• Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900 Index only ($)
• U.S., Marriages performed by three Rabbis in Boston, Chicago and Massachusetts,1861-1956, ($). Index.
• Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920 Index only.
  
  

• Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889 Index only ($)
• Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994 — index
• Illinois State Archives Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916.
• Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947 Index and transcription.
• Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 Index and transcription ($)
• Illinois State Archives, Death Certificate Database, 1916-1950 Index.
• United States Social Security Death Index.
• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Incomplete, ($).
  
  

• Illinois Biography Project
• County and Town Histories with biographies
• Encyclopaedia of biography of Illinois, 1902, Vol. 1, e-book, Vol. 2
• Who's who in Illinois, women-makers of history, e-book
• History of Illinois and her people, v.1, e-books. Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, Vol. 1, e-book, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
• Biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States : Illinois volume, e-book
• The biographical encyclopædia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, e-book
  
  

• Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974, index
• Illinois, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1853-2009.
• BillionGraves Cemetery Records.
• BillionGraves Index
• Findagrave.com.
• Illinois Cemetery Records at Interment.net.
• Illinois Ancestors Tombstone Project.
• USGenWeb Illinois Tombstone Transcription Project.
• Cemetery Census. Incomplete.
• Cemetery Junction Illinois, index.
• Illinois Gravestones, index.
• 1929 Roll of Honor. Index. Contains the locations of the burial places of soldiers, sailors, marines, and army nurses who served in any of the wars of the United States and are buried in Illinois.
• Illinois Cemetery Records
  
  

• U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, ($), index.
• United States Online Census, 1790-1940
• Illinois Census Returns, 1810 and 1818, ($), index.
• Illinois, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1890, ($), index.
• 1818 Illinois Territory Census, index.
• Illinois Census Returns, 1820, ($), index and images.
• Illinois, State Census Collection, 1825-1865 Index and images ($)
• Illinois, State Census, 1855 Index only.
• Illinois, State Census, 1865 Index and Images.
  
  

• Illinois, Select United Methodist Church Records, 1824-2009, ($). Images/index.
  
  

• GEDCOM Index Illinois
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, index and images, ($).
  
  

• Illinois Blacksheep Ancestors
  
  

• Illinois Online Historical Directories, listed by county
  
  

• Illinois, Passenger and Crew List 1918-1963, ($). Index and images.
  
  

• Illinois State Archives Servitude and Emancipation Records, (1722-1863).
  
  

• At Home in the Heartland Online.
• County and Town Histories
  
  

• County Creation Dates for Illinois
• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries at Newberry Library site
• Interactive Map of Illinois County Formation History at MapofUS.org
• Illinois County Boundaries, 1790-present at ILGW.org
  
  

• Illinois State Archives Public Domain Land Tract Sales
• Illinois, Public Land Purchase Records, 1813-1909 Index only ($)
• U.S., Homestead Records, 1863-1908 ($) index and images
  
  

• Databases of Illinois Veterans.
• U.S., Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914 Index and images.
• U.S., Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926 Index Only.
• U.S., General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934.
• U.S., National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Partial index and images.
• U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Index only.
• Illinois State Archives Solders' and Sailors' Home Residents (1887-1916).
• U.S., Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904 Index only.
• U.S., Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933 Index and images.
• Illinois State Archives 1929 Roll of Honor
  
  

• U.S., Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926 Index only.
  
  

• Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials Index and transcription ($)
• U.S., Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783 Index (free) and images ($)
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783 — images
• U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Images only.
• U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900 Index (free) and images ($)
• Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials Index and transcription ($)
• U.S., Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 Images only.
  
  

• U.S., War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815 Index only.
• Illinois State Archives War of 1812 Veterans.
  
  

• Illinois State Archives Winnebago War Veterans.
  
  

• Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-1832, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8 A complete roster of commissioned officers and enlisted men. Index and transcription($)
• Illinois State Archives Black Hawk War Veterans.
  
  

• Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-1832, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8 A complete roster of commissioned officers and enlisted men. Index and transcription ($)
• U.S., Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848 Index only.
• U.S., Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926.
• Illinois State Archives Mexican War Veterans.
  
  

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database.
• Illinois State Archives Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls.
• Illinois State Archives Civil War (Illinois) Veterans of Missouri Units.
• Illinois State Archives Civil War Veterans Serving in the U.S. Navy.
• U.S., Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files Index and images ($); INCOMPLETE
• U.S., Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917 Index (free) and images ($)
• U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 Images only.
• U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Index only.
  
  

• U.S. Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898.
  
  

• U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Index only.
• U.S. WW I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Index and images.
  
  

• U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Index only.
• United States World War II Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1941-1945 — index
• United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Image Browse) (FamilySearch)
• United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (images with partial index) (FamilySearch)
  
  

• U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, 1791-1992 Index ($)
• Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1962 index and images
• DeKalb County, Illinois Naturalizations, 1800-1999 ($) index
• Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950 index and images
• Illinois, Federal Naturalization Records, 1856-1991, index and images, ($)
• Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court: Naturalization Declarations of Intention, 1871-1929 Index
• Illinois, Northern District Petitions for Naturalization, 1906-1991 Browsable images only.
• Illinois, Northern District (Eastern Division), Naturalization Index, 1926-1979 index and images
• Northern District, Illinois, Naturalization Index, 1926-1979, ($), Index
  
  

• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, index.
• Illinois Newspaper Archives (1818–2010) at Genealogy Bank, index.
• Illinois Newspaper Project
• Historical Newspapers in Illinois
• Chronicling America - Illinois Newspapers
• Illinois Newspapers ($)
• Illinois Online Historical Newspapers
• Illinois Newspapers
  
  

• Online Illinois Death Records & Indexes: A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials and Death Records
• Obitsarchive.com
• Ilinois Obituaries Tributes.com
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 — index and images
  
  

• PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($)

• Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, ($), index and images, incomplete.
• Illinois, Probate Records, 1819-1988 Images only.
  
  

• U.S., Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874 Images only.

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