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BOONE COUNTY
HISTORY & GENEALOGY

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Illinois Genealogy Trails Website
for Boone County.

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Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers.

We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our
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(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required)

We'll be doing the best we can to create a website that you will find helpful, useful and meaningful as you trace the trails of your ancestors through Boone County until a permanent host can be found.

We are sorry that we can't do any individual research for you but we'll do everything possible to add information to this site that will help.



Boone County was formed in 1837 out of Winnebago County. It was named for Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone.

Cities and Towns
* Belvidere * Caledonia * Capron * Cherry Valley (east quarter)
* Garden Prairie * Loves Park (east edge) * Poplar Grove * Timberlane

Boone County is divided into these nine townships:
* Belvidere * Bonus * Boone * Caledonia * Flora
* Leroy * Manchester * Poplar Grove * Spring


Boone County Online Data

Family Bibles

Marriages

Wills

Boone County residents listed in the Joliet Prison Convict Register

Website Updates:
May 2013:
Minority Families in Federal Censuses through 1930
Jan 2013: North and South Belvidere High School Alumni from
1870-1919; Church Records of German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Belvidere; Civil War Enlistments from 1863; Enlistees receiving bounty money; Index of names from newspaper photo contest; History of the Pioneer Life in the Townships of Leroy and Manchester ; Original Members of the First Baptist Church of Belvidere, Illinois and names of early members in the Church's History, First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, IL 50 Year Celebration History, DECKER, FRY, WRIGHT death notices; Settlers in County prior to 1851; 1894 Belvidere City Directory
Dec 2012:
Membership List for Immanuel German Evangelical Lutheran Church; 1901 Foreign Members of St. Johns German Ev. Church
Oct 2012: Birth Records, pre-1900; Transcribed Death Certificates 1878 THRU 1915;
Death Records of G.A.R. Veterans of Post 164
Aug 2012: Burials in Drake Cemetery
June 2012: Poor House Records, Boone co. residents sent to Elgin State Hospital, Civil War veterans listed in 1910 census, WW1 veterans born out-of-county but living in Boone co.; Index of biographies in 1929's "History of the Rock River Valley"
Apr 2012:
Index of Civil War Soldiers pictures located at the Boone Co. Historical Society Museum

Previous Updates:
marriage announcement for NEWTON-BOYLE, List of Pensioners on the rolls in 1883, Membership lists of Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant and Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Index to Probate Records, Extracts from veterans' bios; naturalizations of CW veterans; 1863 Tax List; Mexican War info for IL 2nd regiment, Company E; List of names of veterans alive in May 1925 group picture; GAR veterans of Cornwall post 314; Index to 1855 and 1865 State Census


Look up Offer...
Rita Bomher has offered to do limited obituary look-ups (for free)
Email her at joeritabomheratgmail.com (replace the "at" with @)
Nice! Thank you Rita!



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