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Illinois, the 21st state
admitted to the United States of America, is
the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the
fifth most populous state in the nation. With Chicago
in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in
central and western Illinois, and natural
resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois
has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port
of Chicago connects the Great
Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois
River. Illinois is often viewed as a microcosm of the United
States; an Associated Press analysis of
21 demographic factors found Illinois the "most average state",
while Peoria has long been a proverbial social and cultural
bellwether. With a population near 40,000 between
1300 and 1400 AD, the Mississippian city of Cahokia,
in what is now southern Illinois, was the largest city within the future
United States, until it was surpassed by New
York City between 1790 and 1800. About 2,000 Native American
hunters and a small number of French villagers inhabited the Illinois area at
the time of the American Revolution. American settlers began arriving from Kentucky
in the 1810s; they achieved statehood in 1818. The future metropolis of Chicago
was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago
River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake
Michigan. Railroads and John
Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel
plow made central Illinois' rich prairie
into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant
farmers from Germany and Sweden.
By 1900, the growth of industry in the northern cities and coal
mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from
Eastern
and Southern Europe, and made
the state a major arsenal in both World
wars. African Americans migrating to Chicago
from the rural South formed a large and important
community, which created the city's famous jazz and blues
cultures. Approximately 66% of the population of
Illinois resides in the northeastern corner of the state, primarily within
the city of Chicago
and the surrounding area. Three U.S. Presidents
have been elected while they were living in Illinois — Abraham
Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack
Obama. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico and grew up within
Illinois. Lincoln is interred at Oak Ridge Cemetery in
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Illinois State Archives,
Norton Building, Capitol Complex, Springfield, IL 62756; TELEPHONE: (217)
782-4682, Fax: (217) 524-3930; HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Illinois
Regional Archives Depository [IRAD], IRAD Coordinator, Illinois State
Archives, Archives Building, Spring and Edwards, Springfield, IL 62756; As part of the state archives system, seven regional
depositories at state universities include archival material from 102 counties.
Located on seven state university campuses, regional depositories house and
service those records of local governments which have been appraised
as having long-term values and have been transferred to the Archives'
custody.
Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL 62701 |
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HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
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The Illinois State
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Illinois State
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Illinois
State Library, 300 South 2nd Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1796; Phone: (217)
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Adams
Alexander
Bond
Boone
Brown
Bureau
Calhoun
Carroll
Cass
Champaign
Christian
Clark
Clay
Clinton
Coles
Cook
Crawford
Cumberland
De Kalb
De Witt
Douglas
Du Page
Edgar
Effingham
Fayette
Ford
Franklin
Fulton
Gallatin
Greene
Grundy
Hamilton
Hancock
Hardin
Henderson
Henry
Iroquois
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jersey
Jo Daviess
Johnson
Kane
Kankakee
Kendall
Knox
La Salle
Lake
Lee
Livingston
Logan
Macon
Macoupin
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Mason
Massac
McDonough
McHenry
McLean
Menard
Mercer
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Moultrie
Ogle
Peoria
Perry
Piatt
Pike
Pope
Pulaski
Putnam
Randolph
Richland
Rock Island
Saline
Sangamon
Schuyler
Scott
Shelby
St. Clair
Stark
Stephenson
Tazewell
Union
Vermilion
Wabash
Warren
Washington
Wayne
White
Whiteside
Will
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Winnebago
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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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Alexander Baker Bennett Bradshaw |
Brown Elder Giddens Halley |
Hart Jenkins Johnson Lineberry |
Loyd McCann McVicker Meade Moreland |
Peachee Pinnell Stratton Tiffin |
Tipton Walker Wolverton Wright |
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
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likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The following named counties are associated with
the history of our DIRECT ancestors.
To select a specific ancestral county, click on the following link.
Here you will find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain
information about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of
persons, in our database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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Resources
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almost as important as their names.
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the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
that will assist you in discovering Ancestral Locations. |
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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List of Illinois county name
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Illinois Cities -
profiles of 4,833 Illinois cities,
towns & neighborhoods Illinois Physical
Features such as lakes, islands &
steams Illinois Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Illinois Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political Subdivisions |
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Clicking on
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(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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GENERAL RESOURCES |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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