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WELCOME TO ALEXANDER COUNTY GENEALOGY TRAILS |
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WELCOME TO ALEXANDER COUNTY GENEALOGY TRAILS |
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WELCOME MESSAGE Hello, my name is Anna Newell. I am your Alexander County Illinois Genealogy Trails Host. Come with me as we explore the rich history of Alexander County and look for ancestors in cemeteries, obituaries, vital records and other places. Send your family records to me and help present and future researchers find free research at this site. Please bookmark this page so you can return often. New material is being added all the time. Click on my name above to write to me. |
HISTORY OF ALEXANDER COUNTY The first settlement goes back to 1805. Alexander County forms the southern extremity of the state and is bounded by the Mississippi River on the west and south, by the Ohio and Cache Rivers on the east and by Union County on the north. There were very few people in the territory in 1819 at the time of the formation of the county. In 1820, considerably more than one year after its organization, there were, according to the United States census, but 625 souls and it must be borne in mind that in that enumeration was included nearly all of what is now Pulaski County. The only towns of importance at that time were America and Caledonia, both now in Pulaski County. |
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OFF-SITE LINKS TO ALEXANDER COUNTY INFORMATION
The Illinois State Marriage Index
Illinois Death Index, 1916-1947 online submission form
Illinois Genealogy Trails Military and State Pages
Illinois Convict Register Project
(lots of old postcards and pictures of Thebes area)
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Alexander County Courthouse is located at: 2000 Washington Avenue Cairo, IL 62914-1717 618-734-3947 |
The old
courthouse, pictured,
was built about 1865 and torn
down in the 1960s. (Photo courtesy: Stephen Newell)
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