Welcome to Livingston County  Illinois Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! Many thanks to Teri Colglazier for all her hard work on this website... We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Livingston County was founded on February 27, 1837. It was formed from parts of McLean, LaSalle, and Iroquois counties, and named after Edward Livingston, a prominent politician. He was the mayor of New York City, represented New York in the United States House of Representatives, then represented Louisiana in both houses of Congress. He was Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State, and the United States Minister to France. Although he had no connections to Illinois, the General Assembly found him accomplished enough to name a county after him. The county seat is Pontiac. Township Map: Cities and Towns * Campus * Chatsworth * Cornell * Cullom * Dwight * Emington * Fairbury * Flanagan * Forrest * Long Point * Odell * Pontiac * Saunemin * Strawn Our Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records       Links Website Updates: Apr 2013: obit for YATES Dec 2012: obit for PEARSON Oct 2012: CONKLING bio Aug 2012: ROYER obit July 2012: Family records for MORRIS, ARMAN June 2012: WW2 list of casualties May 2012: obits for CRYDER, ASHTON, SAATHOFF, SHARP; bio for AMES Search Genealogy Trails We also have mailing lists set up so that you can read about updates, discuss your families and connect with other researchers who are looking in the same area as you. Don't Miss Another Update! Join our Mailing Lists to be notified of website updates Illinois has its own mailing list. To subscribe just to Illinois: Send an Email Thank you to all who have submitted information to this site. We couldn't do it without you! Michelle Abrajano, Faye Clarke, Merle Crow, Jan Dishon, Allen and Carole Martin, Teri Parr, C. Pickard, Nancy Piper, Janice Rice, Amy Robbins-Tjaden, Marla Snow Adjacent Counties Grundy County (north) LaSalle County (northwest) Kankakee County (northeast) McLean County (southwest) Ford County (southeast) Woodford County (west) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit Illinois State Page Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.