Welcome to Hamilton County, Illinois
Genealogy and History
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for
the free use of all researchers.
This Hamilton County Site is Available for Adoption
but you can send your data submissions here
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be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for
further information and then contact Kim.
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe
data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research
for folks.
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County History North Side of the Square, McLeansboro, IL
Hamilton County was formed out of White County in 1821 and is named for Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War hero
and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
The county seat is McLeansboro, Illinois
Hamilton County is divided into twelve townships:
Cities and Towns
Census
Designated
Places
Beaver Creek
Crook
Crouch
Dahlgren
Flannigan
Knights Prairie
Mayberry
McLeansboro
South Crouch
South Flannigan
South Twigg
Twigg
Belle Prairie City
Broughton
Dahlgren
Macedonia (small portion in Franklin County)
McLeansboro
Dale (Dales)
Delafield
Diamond City
Piopolis
Thackeray
Walpole
Website Updates:
Feb 2012: Marriage Record of TATE-LASATER
Dec 2010: Poor House Records
Oct 2010: Bio of COKER
July 2010: Bio of W.B. Johnson
May 2010: West Rural Hill School, Flannigan Twp School Class pictures; Biography of Rev. War. Soldier Abner Foster
Mar 2010: Chapter 1 of the "History of Gallatin,
Saline, Hamilton, Franklin, and Williamson Counties"; List of soldiers in the Civil War, blackhawk War and
mexican War; List of early officers; early settlers; All Biographies listed in the 1887 History; Early Physicians
of Hamilton co.; 1850 and 1860 Mortality Schedules
