Select a County Site to visit: Choose a County... Adams Alexander Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cass Champaign Christian Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland Dekalb Dewitt Douglas Dupage Edgar Edwards Effingham Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton Hancock Hardin Henderson Henry Iroqouis Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jersey Jo Daviess Johnson Kane Kankakee Kendall Knox Lake LaSalle Lawrence 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 Stark St. Clair Stephenson Tazewell Union Vermilion Wabash Warren Washington Wayne White Whiteside Will Williamson Winnebago Woodford or If you don't want to use that pull down list, or it's not working (sigh), or you just want to select a county off of our state map, click here: Our data on the main pages is arranged by these categories (Click a button) UPDATES Submit Cemetery Headstone transcriptions using our automated form Submit an Obituary using our automated form Illinois State Map	Welcome to Illinois Genealogy Trails FREE Illinois History and Genealogy Records Part of the Genealogy Trails History Group and very excited to celebrate our third year providing data for the whole country! Volunteers dedicated to putting Historical and Genealogical information online for the free use of all researchers. Join our Illinois Genealogy Trails Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. Join our mailing lists for our other Genealogy Trails states If you have comments or questions about this site or our project, contact Illinois State Coordinator Kim (There's nothing about hiking trails, sorry). Search Our State Of Illinois Site (Or Search All Of the Genealogy Trails Main Pages here) Best way to narrow down the "hits" is to put the name of the county in as well, along with the surname you're looking for. Put the county name in quotes. State Selection: AL AK AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY advanced search powered by FreeFind
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Thanks to Family Tree Magazine for this award... which was given in recognition of the work of the dedicated hosts of our Illinois Trails group, who have now expanded to become Illinois Genealogy Trails! ALL DATA REMAINS FREE We know that what you're looking for is data -- and we have LOTS of it right here. Our hosts work continuously to bring you fresh, interesting and NEW data (well.... as new as hundred year old data can be!!!) If you're interested in just a specific county, you'll want to start at the county pages Our long list of Census transcriptions is here If you're looking for general Illinois info and data, our state page and military data page have lots of good names and dates and interesting background history. Sit back, relax, and thumb through the thousands of webpages we have online. And visit us often, because we are always transcribing new data. We thank you for your continued support!!! Established in March of 2000, we used to be known solely as Illinois Trails and worked on transcribing only Illinois data. On March 1, 2006, we created the Genealogy Trails History Group and became known as Illinois Genealogy Trails to go along with the expansion of handling data for all 50 states. Here at Genealogy Trails, we will always give contributors the credit they deserve when they contribute data to our sites. And we will ALWAYS abide by a researcher's request to remove their contributed data if ever asked to. So, pardon our dust while our hosts make the transition from solely Illinois data to as many states as we can handle. We operate under the theory that "every little bit helps!" We welcome any support you would care to give, whether it would be to become a webmaster for a state or county site or to send in raw data to be added to websites. You can, as always, contact Kim Kim Torp, Illinois Genealogy Trails State Coordinator and Genealogy Trails Project Supervisor
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