Illinois Genealogy at Ancestry

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Illinois Statewide Genealogy at Ancestry

• A compendium of Freemasonry in Illinois : embracing a review of the introduction, development and present condition of all rite
• A complete history of Illinois
• A complete history of Illinois from 1673 to 1884 : embracing the physical features of the country, its early explorations, abor
• A gazetteer of Illinois : in three parts : containing a general view of the state, a general view of each county, and a particu
• A gazetteer of the states of Illinois and Missouri : containing a general view of each state, a general view of their counties,
• A History of the Norwegians of Illinois : a concise record of the struggles and achievements of the early settlers, together wi
• A student’s history of Illinois
• A woman’s story of pioneer Illinois
• An historical sketch of the early movement in Illinois for the legalization of slavery
• Blue book of the state of Illinois, 1917-1918
• Blue book of the state of Illinois, 1943-1944
• Book of words : an historical pageant of Illinois
• Chapters from Illinois history
• Chronology of Illinois history, 1673-1954
• Civil government of Illinois and the U.S. : special chapters on Chicago and Cook County : brief historical sketches
• Constitution of the state of Illinois : adopted and ratified, 1870.
• Day by day in Illinois history
• Decisive dates in Illinois history : a story of the state, told in a record of events which have determined the history of Illi
• Early bench and bar of Illinois
• Early Illinois
• Early Illinois
• Early Illinois railroads
• Eight months in Illinois : with information to immigrants
• Eighty years of Illinois : politics and politicians, anecdotes and incidents, a succinct history of the state, 1809-1889
• Genealogical records, Illinois, 1938-1939
• Highways to history in Illinois
• Historic Illinois : the romance of the earlier days
• History of Freemasonry in Illinois, 1804-1829 : organization and proceedings of annual and special communications of “The Grand
• History of Illinois
• History of Illinois and her people
• History of Illinois, from 1778-1833
• History of Illinois: to accompany an historical map of the state
• History of the Presbyterian Church in the state of Illinois
• History of the Republican party in Illinois, 1854-1912 : with a review of the aggressions of the slave-power
• History of the Swedes of Illinois
• Illinois and its builders : a work for newspaper and library reference
• Illinois as it is
• Illinois cemetery records
• Illinois Census Returns, 1810 and 1818
• Illinois Census Returns, 1820
• Illinois Census, 1810-90
• Illinois constitutions
• Illinois DAR family records, 1949-1950
• Illinois election returns, 1818-1848
• Illinois high schools : their organization, maintenance, administration and instruction, with particular reference to the towns
• Illinois historical
• Illinois historical anecdotes
• Illinois in 1818
• Illinois in the eighteenth century
• Illinois in the fifties, or, A decade of development, 1851-1860
• Illinois legislative manual for 30th General Assembly : 1877 and 1878.
• Illinois Marriages to 1850
• Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860
• Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900
• Illinois miscellaneous genealogical records : from counties, Bond, Boone, Calhoun, Cook, Crawford, Du Page, Johnson, Knox, Lake
• Illinois Negro historymakers
• Illinois political directory and sketch book, 1898 : with portraits of party leaders.
• Illinois political directory, 1899 : with portraits and biographical sketches of party leaders.
• Illinois Quaker Records
• Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1720-1865
• Illinois sesquicentennial edition of Christian County history
• Illinois state history : Daughters of the American Revolution
• Illinois state parks and memorials
• Illinois : the story of the prairie state
• Illinois through two hundred and forty-five years, 1673-1918 : catalogue of objects illustrating Illinois history, selected fro
• Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
• Illinois, historical
• Illinois, historical
• Illinois, historical
• Illinois, historical and statistical : comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory
• Illinois, Order Sons of Italy in America, Lodge Records, 1925-1977
• Illinois, Public Land Purchase Records, 1800-1990
• Illinois, State Census Collection, 1825-1865
• Index to names in twenty-six volumes of Illinois records
• Land registration in Illinois
• Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vols. 1-2
• Negotiations for the Illinois salt springs
• North-east Illinois genealogical source materials
• One hundred years in Illinois : (1818-1918) : an account of the development of Illinois in the first century of her statehood
• Perrin’s history of Illinois
• Pictures of Illinois one hundred years ago
• Pioneer Congregational ministers in Illinois
• Pioneers of Illinois
• Puritan influences in the formative years of Illinois history
• Recollections of early Illinois and her noted men
• Republicans of Illinois
• Reynolds’ history of Illinois : my own times : embracing also the history of my life
• Sketches of early life and times in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois
• Some reasons why the two per cent. claims of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, now pending before Congress, on the construction of a
• Souvenir of early and notable events in the history of the North West Territory, Illinois and Tazewell County
• The boundary dispute between Illinois and Wisconsin : an address read before the Chicago Historical Society at a special meetin
• The Catholic Church in the meeting of two frontiers : the southern Illinois country (1763-1793)
• The centennial of Illinois statehood
• The centennial of the state of Illinois : report of the Centennial Commission
• The Central Illinois historical annual.
• The early pioneers and pioneer events of the state of Illinois
• The English settlement in the Illinois : reprints of three rare tracts on the Illinois country
• The frontier state, 1818-1848
• The History of Illinois : from its earliest settlement to the present time
• The history of Negro servitude in Illinois : and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864 / by N. Dwight Harris.
• The Illinois and Indiana Indians
• The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history
• The Illinois constitutional convention of 1862
• The Illinois Ozarks
• The Illinois story
• The making of Illinois : historical sketches
• The masque of Illinois
• The Methodist movement in Northern Illinois
• The pageant of the Illinois country
• The prairie province of Illinois : a study of human adjustment to the natural environment
• The settlement of Illinois from 1830 to 1850
• The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
• The sovereign state of Illinois
• The story of Illinois
• The story of Illinois and its people
• The white city : the historical, biographical and philanthropical record of Illinois
• The wonderful story of Illinois : a pageant
• Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011
• Witchcraft in Illinois
• Young people’s history of Illinois : from the earliest discoveries to the present time : containing, also, a full description

Illinois Military Data at Ancestry

• A list of officers of the Illinois Regiment, and of Crockett’s Regiment, who have received land for their services : a list of
• Fifteen years ago, or, The patriotism of Will County : designed to preserve the names and memory of Will County soldiers, both
• Franklin County, Illinois, war history, 1832-1919 : containing a brief review of the World War, complete history of Franklin Co
• Galena’s old stockade : used during the Black Hawk War, 1832
• George Rogers Clark and the Revolution in Illinois, 1763-1787 : a sesquicentennial memorial
• Historical sketch of the Forty-fifth Illinois Regiment
• History of the 124th Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers : otherwise known as the “Hundred and Two Dozen,” from August, 1862
• History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry
• History of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry Regiment
• History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, during the War of the Rebellion
• History, 31st Regiment, Illinois Volunteers : organized by John A. Logan.
• Illinois activities in the World War : covering the period from 1914 to 1920
• Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials
• Index of Franklin County Illinois war history, (originally published, 1920.)
• McLean County, Illinois in the World War, 1917-1918
• Ninety-second Illinois Volunteers
• Patriotism of Illinois: a record of the civil and military history of the state in the War for the Union, Vols. 1-2
• Quincy in the Civil War : a view of the great conflict as seen through the eyes of a Quincy historian
• Recollections of pioneer and army life
• Record of the services of Illinois soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8 : containing a compl
• Reminiscences of a soldier’s wife : an autobiography
• Reminiscences of Chicago during the Civil War
• Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois
• Roster of the Illinois National Guard
• Semi-history of a boy-veteran of the Twenty-eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a black regiment : a diary of 28th
• The Collection and preservation of county war records
• The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
• The history of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry (Yates Phalanx) in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-
• Williamson County, Illinois, in the World War : containing a brief review of the World War, complete history of Williamson Coun

Miscellaneous Illinois data at Ancestry

• A Biographical history, with portraits, of prominent men of the great West
• A complete history of the campaign in which The Mighty Sleeper was defeated in the 34th Senatorial District of IL.
• A conscientious turncoat : the story of John M. Palmer, 1817-1900
• A history of the Illinois State Normal University
• A pioneer family : the Birkbecks in Illinois, 1818-1827
• A winter in the West
• Abraham Lincoln, lawyer
• Adam W. Snyder and his period in Illinois history, 1817-1842
• Addresses delivered at the annual meeting of the Chicago Historical Society, November 19th, 1868
• Bible and other family records
• Bible records compiled by Illinois Society, D.A.R., 1968-1969
• Bible records.
• Biographical sketch of Enoch Long, an Illinois pioneer
• Biographical sketch of Hon. Joseph Duncan, fifth governor of Illinois
• Biographical sketch of John Dean Caton, ex-Chief-Justice of Illinois
• Biographical sketch of Joseph Duncan : fifth governor of Illinois
• Black’s blue book
• Bolingbrook does too have a history
• Breese centennial celebration, 1856-1956
• Bugle echoes : the story of Illinois 47th
• Carter Henry Harrison : a memoir
• Centennial celebration of the Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Ill.
• Centennial celebration of the enactment of the first free school law in Illinois
• Centi-quad-o-rama
• Charter of the Chicago & Aurora and Central Military Tract Railroads : also, general railroad laws of Illinois, and other gener
• Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library.
• Delavan
• Denton Offutt, employer and friend of Lincoln at New Salem
• Do you remember?
• Economy Light and Power Company, a corporation, appellant, vs. United States of America, appellee : brief and argument for appe
• Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois
• Eine popul
• Elmer E. Ellsworth and the Zouaves of ’61
• Family Bibles & birthday book
• Family histories
• Family memories
• Family records from old Bibles and other family written records
• Father Pierre Fran
• Fifty years’ recollections with observations and reflections on historical events : giving sketches of eminent citizens, their
• French and Indians of Illinois River
• Friendly libels
• Galesburg’s mighty horse market : Leroy Marsh Sales Barn, 1877-1920
• Genealogical list of the descendants of Shadrach Bond, first governor of the state of Illinois
• Genealogical material collected by the Illinois D.A.R. : presented to Newberry Library
• Genealogies and Bible records gathered by the Illinois Society, D.A.R., 1976-1977
• Genealogies of eleven families contributed to the Illinois Society, D.A.R.
• General index to Collections, Journals, Publications : 1899-1928
• Governor Edward Coles
• Governors’ letter-books, 1840-1853
• Historical sketches
• History of bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway to Galesburg
• History of the Fox River Baptist Association
• History of the Illinois River Valley
• History of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church near Sandwich, De Kalb County, Illinois : with ancestral lines of the early
• History of the Springfield Baptist Association
• History of Wabash Valley, Indiana-Illinois : gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official corresp
• Humane advocate, May, 1907 : thirty-eighth annual report of the Illinois Humane Society.
• Humane advocate, May, 1908
• Illinois Society of the S.A.R. Yearbook, 1896
• Illinois Society, D.A.R. genealogy records, 1940-1941
• Index to the Transactions of the Ill. State Historical Society and other publications of the Ills. State Historical Library
• James Watson Webb’s trip across Illinois in 1822
• Jane Swisshelm, Abolitionist and Nurse
• Julian Ralph, South Shore of Lake Superior
• Land tenure in the United States
• LDS Redress Petition Listing, 1843
• Legends and tales of homeland on the Kankakee
• Life in prairie land
• Love’s labor
• Martin B. Madden, public servant : a sketch
• Material contributed by Springfield Chapter, Springfield, Illinois, 1968-1969
• Maumee Valley and pioneers
• Memorial addresses on the life and character of Edward D. Cooke : (late a representative from Illinois)
• Memorials of Methodism in the bounds of the Rock River Conference
• Men who have made the Fifth Ward : being a collection of biographical sketches of the prominent men who have materially aided i
• Message of Shelby M. Cullom, governor of Illinois, to the Thirtieth General Assembly, at the inauguration of state officers : M
• Minutes of the General Association of Illinois at their eighteenth annual meeting
• Minutes of the General Association of Illinois at their seventeenth annual meeting
• Minutes of the General Association of Illinois at their twentieth annual meeting
• Minutes of the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the General Association of Illinois
• Miscellaneous records of families, Bibles, cemeteries
• Official guide to the Old Colony Church : and catalogue of the collection of pioneer relics of Bishop Hill.
• Official reference book, Press Club of Chicago …
• Peotone on parade, 1856, 1956
• Personal recollections of early Decatur, Abraham Lincoln, Richard J. Oglesby and the Civil War
• Pioneer letters of Gershom Flagg
• Proceedings of a memorial meeting of the City Council of the city of Chicago, held Thursday, November 16th, 1893
• Proceedings of the Darling reunion
• Proceedings of the Illinois Press Association at the twenty-fourth annual session
• Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge : Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, state of Illinois : eightieth annual meeting
• Quaker records
• Recollections of seventy years
• Recollections of the early settlement of the Wabash Valley
• Records of the olden time, or, Fifty years on the prairies : embracing sketches of the discovery, exploration and settlement of
• Rededication of Hobson Pioneer Marker, Pioneer Park, Du Page County, Illinois
• Redmon : on the edge of the prairie.
• Report of the Joint Select Committee upon the State Bank of Illinois
• Report of the Land Transfer Commission to the governor of the state of Illinois
• Report of the second reunion of the Tri-State Old Settlers’ Association of Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa
• Scrap book
• Searching the records : begins with the General Assembly of 1828-9, at Vandalia, Illinois : that year Macoupin County got gover
• Sequent occupance reviewed
• Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835
• Sketch of Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois and of the slavery struggle of 1823-4
• Starved Rock : a historical sketch
• The beginnings
• The Carter H. Harrison who was a guest of the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, September 1, 1816, was my grandfather
• The centennial book : official program of the ceremonies and the pageant in celebration of the centennial of Vermilion, forty-f
• The challenge of the sesquicentennial
• The Constitutional debates of 1847
• The Critical period, 1763-1765
• The diary of Orville Hickman Browning. : 1850-1864
• The Edwards papers : being a portion of the collection of the letters, papers, and manuscripts of Ninian Edwards
• The governors’ letter-books, 1818-1834
• The history of the First National Bank of Chicago : preceded by some account of early banking in the United States, especially
• The industrial state, 1870-1893
• The Joys of Joy Prairie : an account of the exercises at the unveiling of a marker on the site of the first Joy cabin on Joy Pr
• The life and services of Joseph Duncan, governor of Illinois, 1834-1838
• The Lincoln Collection of the Illinois State Historical Library
• The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
• The Maumee Valley
• The modern commonwealth, 1893-1918
• The New r
• The outlaws of Cave-in-Rock : historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon
• The Proposed new constitution
• The Wabash
• The World’s Fair City and her enterprising sons
• Toulon’s 125th anniversary
• Trade and politics, 1767-1769
• Transactions at the annual meeting of the Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association
• Travel and description, 1765-1865 : together with a list of county histories, atlases, and biographical collections and a list
• Voices of the prairie land
• Wapella centennial : 1854-1954.
• Wills and family histories
• Worthies and workers, both ministers and laymen, of the Rock River Conference

Illinois County Specific Genealogy at Ancestry

• A history of the County of Du Page, Illinois : containing an account of its early settlement and present advantages, a separate
• A Standard history of Champaign County, Illinois : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern
• Adams County, Illinois Directory, 1892
• An index to The good old times in McLean County, Illinois : containing two hundred and sixty-one sketches of old settlers, a co
• Annals of Knox County
• Biographical and genealogical record of La Salle and Grundy Counties, Illinois
• Biographical and genealogical record of La Salle County, Illinois
• Biographical directory of the voters and tax-payers of Kendall County, Illinois
• Brinkerhoff’s history of Marion County, Illinois
• Bureau County, Illinois Historical and Biographical Sketches
• Bureau County, Illinois Voters and Tax-Payers Directory, 1877
• Carroll County : a goodly heritage
• Census, 1830, Gallatin County, Illinois
• Centennial history of Madison County, Illinois, and its people : 1812 to 1912
• Centennial history of Mason County
• Champaign County, Illinois History
• Christian County, Illinois Biographical Record
• Coles County, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Commemorative biographical and historical record of Kane County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical ske
• Commemorative portrait and biographical record of Kane and Kendall Counties, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biograph
• Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935
• Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988
• Cook County, Illinois History
• Cook County, Illinois History and Biography
• Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960
• Cook County, Illinois Marriage Indexes, 1912-1942
• Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
• Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922
• Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889
• Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920
• County of Douglas, Illinois : historical and biographical : with an outline sketch of the Northwest Territory and of the state
• De Witt County, Illinois History
• DeKalb County, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Documents and biography pertaining to the settlement and progress of Stark County, Illinois : containing an authentic summary o
• Early history and pioneers of Champaign County
• Early Lee County : being some chapters in the history of the early days in Lee County, Illinois
• Edgar County, Illinois History
• Edwards County, Illinois History of the English Settlement
• Effingham County, Illinois, past and present
• Fulton County, Illinois Farmers Directory, 1917
• Gazetteer of Madison County : containing historical and descriptive sketches of Alton City, Upper Alton, Edwardsville, Collinsv
• Genealogical and biographical record of Kendall and Will Counties, Illinois : containing biographies of well known citizens of
• Genealogical and biographical record of Will County, Illinois : containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and p
• Geography, history and civics of Woodford County, Illinois
• Grundy County, Illinois History
• Historic Rock Island County : history of the settlement of Rock Island County from the earliest known period to the present tim
• Historical and biographical record of Douglas County, Illinois
• Historical and statistical sketches of Lake County, state of Illinois
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Boone County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Carroll County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Champaign County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Clark County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Coles County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Du Page County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Edgar County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kendall County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Lake County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Lee County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of McDonough County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of McLean County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Mercer County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Morgan County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Rock Island County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Schuyler County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of St Clair County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Tazewell County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Warren County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and Knox County
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, Cook County Edition
• History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois
• History of Cook County, Illinois : being a general survey of Cook County history including a condensed history of Chicago and s
• History of Cook County, Illinois : from the earliest period to the present time
• History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois
• History of De Witt County, Illinois : with biographical sketches of prominent representative citizens of the county.
• History of De Witt County, Illinois : with illustrations descriptive of the scenery, and biographical sketches of some of the p
• History of DeKalb County, Illinois
• History of Du Page County, Illinois
• History of Effingham County, Illinois
• History of Ford County, Illinois : from its earliest settlement to 1908
• History of Fulton County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civi
• History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin, and Williamson Counties, Illinois : from the earliest time to the present, tog
• History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Illinois : together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civ
• History of Grundy County, Illinois : containing a history from the earliest settlement to the present time, embracing its topog
• History of Hancock County, Illinois : together with an outline history of the state, and a digest of state laws
• History of Henry County, Illinois
• History of Iroquois County
• History of Iroquois County : together with Historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscript
• History of Jefferson County, Illinois
• History of Jefferson County, Illinois, 1810-1962
• History of Kane County, Ill.
• History of Kendall County, Illinois
• History of Knox County, Illinois : its cities, towns and people
• History of La Salle County, Illinois
• History of La Salle County, Illinois : its topography, geology, botany, natural history, history of the mound builders, Indian
• History of La Salle County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil,
• History of Lee County, Illinois
• History of Logan County, Illinois : a record of its settlement, organization, progress and achievement
• History of Logan County, Illinois : its past and present : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biogr
• History of Logan County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, mi
• History of Macon County, Illinois
• History of Macoupin County, Illinois : biographical and pictorial
• History of Madison County, Illinois : illustrated : with biographical sketches of many prominent men and pioneers.
• History of Massac County, Illinois : with life sketches and portraits
• History of McDonough County, Illinois : its cities, towns and villages, with early reminiscences, personal incidents and anecdo
• History of McDonough County, Illinois : together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, milita
• History of McHenry County, Illinois
• History of McHenry County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil,
• History of McLean County, Illinois
• History of Mercer and Henderson Counties : together with biographical matter, statistics, etc. gathered from matter furnished b
• History of Piatt County : together with a brief history of Illinois from the discovery of the upper Mississippi to the present
• History of Pike County
• History of Pike County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil,
• History of Sangamon County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, ci
• History of Stephenson County, Illinois : a record of its settlement, organization, and three-quarters of a century of progress
• History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois : “centennial record”
• History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower
• History of Vermilion County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscrip
• History of Vermilion County, Illinois : a tale of its evolution, settlement, and progress for nearly a century
• History of Whiteside County, Illinois : from its earliest settlement to 1908
• History of Whiteside County, Illinois : from its first settlement to the present time, with numerous biographical and family sk
• History of Will County, Illinois
• History of Woodford County
• History of Woodford County : giving a brief account of its settlement, organization, physical characteristics and progress
• Illinois, White County genealogical records
• In the foot-prints of the pioneers of Stephenson County, Illinois : a genealogical record.
• Index of McLean County, Illinois
• Index to History of Effingham County, Illinois : 1883.
• J. S. Lothrop’s Champaign County directory, 1870-1
• Jo Daviess County, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Kane County, Illinois History
• Kankakee County, Illinois Birth Index, 1915-1936
• Kankakee County, Illinois Death Index, 1870-1992
• Kankakee County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1889-1962
• Kendall County, Illinois History
• Kendall County, Illinois Voters and Tax-Payers Directory, 1876
• Knox County, Illinois, the honor roll, 1917-1918-1919 : being a record of what was done in Knox County in those three eventful
• La Salle County centennial
• Livingston County, Illinois Biographical Record
• Livingston County, Illinois, Farmers Directory, 1917
• Medicine in Champaign County
• Moyers’ brief history of Pulaski County
• Past and present of Bureau County, Illinois
• Past and present of Christian County, Illinois
• Past and present of Greene County, Illinois
• Past and present of Iroquois County, Illinois
• Past and present of Marshall and Putnam Counties, Illinois
• Past and present of Menard County, Illinois
• Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois
• Past and present of Piatt County, Illinois : together with biographical sketches of many prominent and influential citizens
• Past and present of Pike County, Illinois
• Past and present of Will County, Illinois
• Peoria County, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Pioneer families of Randolph and Perry Counties, Illinois
• Pope County notes
• Portrait and biographical album of Champaign County, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of promine
• Portrait and biographical album of De Witt and Piatt Counties, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches
• Portrait and biographical album of DeKalb County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of promin
• Portrait and biographical album of Fulton County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of promin
• Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of promine
• Portrait and biographical album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical
• Portrait and biographical album of Peoria County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of promin
• Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketch
• Portrait and biographical album of Rock Island County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of p
• Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prom
• Portrait and biographical album of Stephenson County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of pr
• Portrait and biographical album of Vermilion and Edgar Counties, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical ske
• Portrait and biographical album of Vermilion County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of pro
• Portrait and biographical album of Whiteside County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of pro
• Portrait and biographical album of Will County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominen
• Portrait and biographical album of Woodford County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prom
• Portrait and biographical record of Adams County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative c
• Portrait and biographical record of Lee County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative cit
• Portrait and biographical record of Macoupin County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representativ
• Portrait and biographical record of St. Clair County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representati
• Prairie Farmer’s Reliable Directory: Will and Southern Cook County, Illinois, 1918
• Recollections of the pioneers of the Lee County
• Reminiscences of Bureau County : in two parts
• Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Souvenir of settlement and progress of Will County, Ill. : a review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and com
• Stark County and its pioneers
• Stark County, Illinois and its people : a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement
• Stephenson County, Illinois Farmer Directory, 1917
• Stories of pioneer days in La Salle County, Illinois
• Student’s history of Perry County
• Suggestions for county and local celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the admission of Illinois into the federal Un
• The Biographical record of Livingston and Woodford Counties, Illinois
• The Biographical record of Ogle County, Illinois
• The Biographical record of Rock Island County, Illinois
• The book of words of St. Clair County pageant
• The county archives of the state of Illinois
• The good old times in McLean County, Illinois : containing two hundred and sixty-one sketches of old settlers, a complete histo
• The History of Adams County, Illinois : containing history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory of
• The History of Carroll County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory
• The History of Coles County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a directory of its tax-paye
• The History of Edgar County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., directory of its tax-payers
• The history of Henry County, Illinois : its tax-payers and voters : containing also a biographical directory, a condensed histo
• The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical direct
• The History of Livingston County, Illinois : containing a history of the county–its cities, towns, &c., a directory of its tax
• The History of McLean County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., portraits of early settler
• The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois : containing a history of the counties–their cities, towns, &c., portraits
• The History of Ogle County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory of
• The History of Peoria County, Illinois : containing a history of the Northwest, history of Illinois, history of the county, its
• The history of Putnam and Marshall Counties
• The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., biographical sketches
• The History of Will County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a directory of its real esta
• The history of Williamson County, Illinois : from the earliest times, down to the present, with an accurate account of the Sece
• The History of Winnebago County, Ill. : its past and present : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a b
• The Jess M. Thompson Pike County history : as printed in installments in the Pike County republican, Pittsfield, Illinois, 1935
• The Past and present of Boone County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., a biographical dire
• The Past and present of Kane County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a directory of its
• The Past and present of La Salle County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical
• The Past and present of Lake County, Illinois : containing a history of the county–its cities, towns, &c., a biographical dire
• The Past and present of Rock Island County, Ill.
• The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois
• The Past and present of Warren County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical di
• The Past and present of Woodford County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a directory of
• The Voters and tax-payers of De Kalb County, Illinois : containing, also, a biographical directory of its tax-payers and voters
• The Woodford County history : Woodford County Board of Supervisors–1968
• This is Washington County
• Wall’s history of Jefferson County, Illinois
• Will County, Illinois Biographical Dictionary
• Will County, Illinois History
• Will County, Illinois, Saint Dennis Catholic Church Vital Records, 1852-1951
• Woodford County, Illinois, Prairie District Library, Obituaries, 1887 to Present

Illinois Town Specific Genealogy at Ancestry

• A classic town : the story of Evanston
• A history of Belleville
• A history of Round Prairie and Plymouth : 1831-1875
• A history of the city of Cairo, Illinois
• Alton Daily Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)
• Alton Observer (Alton, Illinois)
• Alton Telegraph And Democratic Review (Alton, Illinois)
• Alton Weekly Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)
• Alton, Illinois Directory, 1890
• Austin News (Chicago, Illinois)
• Biographical sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago
• Biographical sketches of the leading men of Chicago
• Blue Island Sun Standard (Blue Island, Illinois)
• Bulletin Sentinel (Decatur, Illinois)
• Bushnell, Illinois centennial, 1854-1954
• Bygone days in Chicago : recollections of the “Garden City” of the sixties
• Cahokia records, 1778-1790
• Canton, its pioneers and history
• Cass Street sketches (Joliet, Ill.)
• Centennial history of Decatur and Macon County
• Centralia Sentinel (Centralia, Illinois)
• Champaign, Illinois Newspaper Index, 1892
• Checagou : from Indian wigwam to modern city, 1673-1835
• Chenoa community centennial : a century of co-operation, 1854-1954.
• Chicago and Cook County, A Guide to Research
• Chicago and its suburbs
• Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 : a study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fo
• Chicago antiquities : comprising original items and relations, letters, extracts, and notes pertaining to early Chicago, embell
• Chicago Bar Association lectures.
• Chicago Daily News (Chicago, Illinois)
• Chicago Heights Star (Chicago, Illinois)
• Chicago Heights Star Sports (Chicago Heights, Illinois)
• Chicago Irish Families, 1875-1925
• Chicago River-and-Harbor convention
• Chicago Sun-Times Obituaries, 1988-95
• Chicago Tribune, Obituary Index, 1988-1997
• Chicago und sein Deutschthum
• Chicago yesterdays : a sheaf of reminiscences
• Chicago’s first half century : the city as it was fifty years ago, and as it is today : the trade, commerce, manufactories, ra
• Chicago, die geschichte einer wunderstadt
• Chicago, Illinois and Iowa Biographical Dictionary
• Chicago, Illinois, Voter Registration, 1888
• Chicago, Illinois, Voter Registration, 1890
• Chicago, Illinois, Voter Registration, 1892
• Chicago, its history and its builders : a century of marvelous growth
• Chicago, the great industrial and commercial center of the Mississippi Valley : an area with an annual tonnage of twenty-two bi
• Chicago, the Wonder City
• City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois : a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement
• Colored people’s blue-book and business directory of Chicago, Ill., 1905
• Congressional reminiscences, Adams, Benton, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster
• Cook County Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
• Daily Alton Telegraph, The (Alton, Illinois)
• Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
• Daily Journal (Herrin, Illinois)
• Daily Leader (Pontiac, Illinois)
• Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois)
• Danville, Illinois Directory, 1889
• Decatur Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Evening Herald (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Labor World (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Local Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Morning Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Republican (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Weekly Gazette (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Weekly News (Decatur, Illinois)
• Decatur Weekly Republican (Decatur, Illinois)
• Directory of the city of Chicago, Illinois for 1843
• Dixon Evening Telegraph (Dixon, Illinois)
• Donna’s story of Braidwood, Illinois : historical data, reported facts, personal recollections
• DuPage County Register (Bensenville, Illinois)
• Early Chicago : a lecture
• Early Chicago : reception to the settlers of Chicago prior to 1840, by the Calumet Club, of Chicago, Tuesday evening, May 27, 1
• Early Chicago and Illinois
• Early Chicago, Fort Dearborn : an address
• Early days in Greenbush
• Early days of Peoria and Chicago
• Early history of Washington, Illinois and vicinity
• Early medical Chicago
• Early Rock Island
• Early-Chicago reminiscences
• East Lynn & Rankin Union Cemeteries: Vermillion County, IL
• East St Louis Daily Journal (East Saint Louis, Illinois)
• East St Louis Journal (East Saint Louis, Illinois)
• East St. Louis, Illinois Directory, 1889-90
• Economist (Chicago, Illinois)
• Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois)
• Elmhurst Press (Elmhurst, Illinois) Obituaries, 1988-98
• Englewood Economist (Chicago, Illinois)
• Evanston’s yesterdays
• Evanston, Illinois Directories, 1890-93
• Evening Bulletin (Decatur, Illinois)
• Evening Courier (Decatur, Illinois)
• Fergus’ directory of the city of Chicago, 1839
• First triennial report of the Central Illinois Historical Society
• Freeburg centennial
• Freeport Journal Standard (Freeport, Illinois)
• Gould’s blue book for the city of St. Louis, 1903 : alphabetically arranged and classified by streets, also a list of the most
• Gould’s blue book for the city of St. Louis, 1907 : alphabetically arranged and classified by streets, also a list of the most
• Gould’s blue book for the city of St. Louis, 1913 : alphabetically arranged and classified by streets, with a list of the most
• Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
• Herald Despatch (Decatur, Illinois)
• Heroes and heroines of the Fort Dearborn massacre
• Herrin Daily Journal (Herrin, Illinois)
• Herringshaw’s city blue book of biography
• Historic Morgan and classic Jacksonville
• Historical fragments of early Chicagoland
• Historical review of Chicago and Cook County and selected biography
• Historical souvenir of Greenville, Illinois : being a brief review of the city from the time of its founding to date
• History of Bardolph, Illinois
• History of Bloomington and Normal, in McLean County, Illinois
• History of Chicago
• History of Chicago
• History of Dwight : from 1853 to 1894
• History of Jerseyville, Illinois, 1822 to 1901
• History of Quincy and its men of mark, or, Facts and figures exhibiting its advantages and resources, manufactures and commerce
• History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
• Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur, Illinois)
• Joliet, Illinois Directories, 1884-92
• Journal (Chicago, Illinois)
• Kankakee City, Illinois Directory, 1876
• Kaskaskia records, 1778-1790
• Lest we forget : Chicago’s awful theater horror
• Lombard, Illinois Newspaper Obituaries, 1929-53
• Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago : a history of the Foxes and of their downfall near the great village of Maramech
• Metamora, Illinois Directory, 1890
• Morning Herald Despatch (Decatur, Illinois)
• Mount Morris, past and present : an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois,
• My Chicago
• Narrative of the massacre at Chicago, (Saturday), August 15, 1812, and of some preceding events
• Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842
• New Baden centennial, 1855-1955
• News (Chicago, Illinois)
• News Journal (Chicago, Illinois)
• News Journal World (Chicago, Illinois)
• Norris’ business directory and statistics of the city of Chicago for 1846
• Northwest Journal (Chicago, Illinois)
• Notable men of Chicago and their city
• Olney Times (Olney, Illinois)
• Past and present of the city of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois
• Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois
• Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
• Peoria of to-day : with Peoria blue book directory, 1915
• Peoria, city and county, Illinois : a record of settlement, organization, progress, and achievement
• Peoria, Illinois Directory, 1890
• Quincy and Adams County history and representative men
• Quincy, Illinois Directories, 1887-90
• Reminiscences of Chicago during the forties and fifties
• Reminiscences of Chicago during the great fire
• Reminiscences of early Chicago and vicinity
• Reminiscences of early Peoria : including Indian stories
• Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois
• Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• Rock Island and Moline, Illinois Directories, 1882-92
• Rock River Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• Sangamon, Illinois Directory, 1889
• Saturday Herald (Decatur, Illinois)
• Seventy five years in Chicago
• Sketches of Wethersfield Township
• Southeast Economist (Chicago, Illinois)
• Southend Reporter (Chicago, Illinois)
• Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Illinois)
• Southtown Economist (Chicago, Illinois)
• Springfield, Illinois City Directory, 1855
• Star Publications (Chicago, Illinois)
• Stories and sketches of Chicago : an interesting, entertaining, and instructive sketch history of the wonderful city “by the sea”
• Suburbanite Economist (Chicago, Illinois)
• Sun Standard (Blue Island, Illinois)
• Svenskarne i Illinois : historiska anteckningar
• Tales of an old “border town” and along the Kankakee : a collection of historical facts and intimate personal sketches of the d
• The Alton Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)
• The Alton Weekly Courier (Alton, Illinois)
• The annals of Chicago : a lecture
• The Chicago blue book of selected names of Chicago and suburban towns
• The Chicago blue book of selected names of Chicago and suburban towns : containing the names and addresses of prominent residen
• The Chicago massacre of 1812 : a historical and biographical narrative of Fort Dearborn (now Chicago) : how the fort and city w
• The Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois)
• The Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois)
• The Daily Register (Harrisburg, Illinois)
• The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• The Decatur Daily Despatch (Decatur, Illinois)
• The Decatur Morning News (Decatur, Illinois)
• The Decatur Review Advertiser (Decatur, Illinois)
• The development of Chicago and vicinity as a manufacturing center prior to 1880
• The development of Chicago, 1674-1914 : shown in a series of contemporary original narratives
• The Dixon Sun (Dixon, Illinois)
• The Dixon Telegraph (Dixon, Illinois)
• The Evening Courier (Champaign, Illinois)
• The Fort Dearborn massacre
• The great Chicago theater disaster
• The great conflagration : Chicago, its past, present and future : embracing a detailed narrative of the great conflagration in
• The great revolution : a history of the rise and progress of the People’s Party in the city of Chicago and county of Cook, wit
• The Hand-book of Chicago biography : a compendium of useful biographical information for reference and study
• The history of Peoria, Illinois
• The Italians in Chicago : a study in Americanization
• The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century : a paper
• The lost city! Drama of the fire fiend, or, Chicago, as it was, and as it is! And its glorious future! : a vivid and truthful p
• The Madison County Courier (Edwardsville, Illinois)
• The Morning Review (Decatur, Illinois)
• The Negro in Chicago : a study of race relations and a race riot
• The old Kaskaskia records
• The original town of Bloomington, Illinois
• The Paxton Weekly Record (Paxton, Illinois)
• The Pointer (Riverdale, Illinois)
• The political history of Chicago
• The present and future prospects of Chicago
• The Sentinel presents 100 years of Chicago Jewry
• The State Sentinel (Decatur, Illinois)
• The story of Chicago
• The story of Chicago
• The Sumner Press (Sumner, Illinois)
• The Thomson Review (Thomson, Illinois)
• The Weekly Herald Despatch (Decatur, Illinois)
• Thomson Review (Thomson, Illinois)
• U.S., Marriages performed by three Rabbis in Boston, Chicago and Massachusetts,1861-1956
• Weekly Decatur Magnet (Decatur, Illinois)
• William B. Ogden and early days in Chicago : a paper
• World (Chicago, Illinois)
• Wunders Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois