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EDGAR COUNTY,

ILLINOIS
 

Welcome to the Illinois Genealogy Trails Edgar County website.  This county is now being hosted by Kevin. If you have any data you would like to contribute to this county's website: family histories and genealogies, biographies, births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, cemetery and census data,
county and town histories, newspapers, family, group or class pictures, old postcards, &c., please contact me at ortmank@yahoo.com

You are welcome to browse the information on these pages to garner the data needed to continue your research into your family history. However, please remember that this information, in many cases, represents years of painstaking research on the part of the many generous volunteers who have donated their information to this site. You can show your respect for these efforts by not taking things to use on other websites and/or to claim as your own (see below). We thank you in advance for your consideration

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Edgar County was formed in 1823 out of Clark County. It was named for Irishman John Edgar who was an officer in the Royal Navy who switched sides during the Revolutionary War rather than fight the colonists.  He became a a pioneer merchant, politician and land speculator in early Illinois

Townships in Edgar County are:

Brouilletts Creek Buck Edgar (Bloomfield)
Elbridge Embarrass Grandview
Hunter Kansas Paris
Prairie Ross Shiloh
Stratton Symmes Young America

Communities in Edgar County include:

Incorporated Cities & Towns
Brocton Chrisman Elbridge
  Grandview  
Hume Kansas Metcalf
Paris Redmon Vermilion
Unincorporated Villages
Edgar Horace Bloomfield
     

Cemeteries

Biographies

    Obituaries**updated**

Queries


Vital Records

Edgar County Death Index 1916-1915(A - J Surnanes online)
Miscellaneous Death Listings
The Edgar County 1844, 1845 and 1846 Delinquent Tax List
Edgar County Misc. Births and Marriages
Cummins Family Births and Marriages

Will of William Craig


Newspapers

Edgar County Obituaries
Edgar County Newspaper Clippings


Census

1818 Census of Crawford - Includes present Edgar County


Land Records


Deed Book 1825-1832


Military

Edgar County Revolutionary War Soldiers
Roster of the 79th Illinois Infantry
WW II Casualties
Civil War Soldier's Burials


Miscellaneous

 Convicts in the Joliet Prison

Queries & Research
 Archived Queries from 2002-2003

 

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Don't miss visiting the State areas of Illinois Genealogy Trails, linked below. Most of these records do include Edgar county folks.


Illinois State Military

Includes Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in the State of Illinois, Revolutionary War pensioners, the 1840 Illinois State Military Census, the War of 1812, the Civil War and more.


Illinois State Data

Includes State-wide history and data, including our new Illinois Prisoner Register project.


Illinois Events

Events in Illinois, including epidemics, earthquakes and more.


Illinois Census

Locate Census by State or County that is available through Genealogy Trails


Illinois Counties

Text Version
Clickable Map

Visit the Illinois Counties surrounding Edgar:

Clark Coles Douglas Vermilion

Visit the Indiana Counties adjoining Edgar:

Vigo* Vermillion*

* available for adoption


EDGAR COUNTY RESOURCES

Edgar County, Illinois Courthouse
115 West Court Street
Paris, IL 61944
(217) 465-4151

County Clerk's Office holds
Land Records
Vital Records
(birth, death and marriage)

Circuit Clerk's Office holds
Divorce Records
Probates and Wills
Other Court Records

Be sure to call before you send your request for prices and guidelines

*A list of dates records are available can be found on our Courthouse Earliest Record Holdings page


Edgar County Historical Complex


Edgar County Records held at IRAD - To search, enter EDGAR in the County box


Illinois State Archives
Military, Marriage, Death Index and other online databases.

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The information contained on the pages of this site is free for your personal use, however the original data remains copyrighted by the individual contributors.  The particular compilation  of the data in the format presented herein is copyrighted by L. K. Ortman for use by Illinois Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy.  As such, this data is not to be used for profit, or for presentation elsewhere without express permission of the owner.  Every effort is made to insure that all texts, pictures and other data presented here were obtained from sources for which permission has been obtained or the copyright has expired.  Please report any copyright violation to L. K. Ortman.

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