Welcome to McHenry County
History and Genealogy
Presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption
Many thanks to long-time host Anne Kunzen for all her hard work on this site!
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for
the free use of all researchers.
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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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Formed in 1836 out of Cook and LaSalle counties, McHenry County is the sixth largest county, in terms of population,
in the state of Illinois. It was named for Major William McHenry, an Indian fighter who died in Vandalia in 1835.
The County originally stretched all the way east to Lake Michigan, with the county seat centrally in McHenry, but
in 1839, the eastern townships of the county were carved out to form Lake County
Its county seat is Woodstock, Illinois
Website Updates: Oct 2009: COLLINS obituary
Sep 2009: RICE family biography
Aug 2009: St. Johns UCC Church Records, Zion Lutheran Confirmation Records
May 2009: 1877 County Directory COMPLETED!!!!
Apr 2009: Added to the Town and township histories; New biographies for SILL, SILLIMAN, SINCERBOX, SLAVIN, SLATER;
1877 Directory for Chemung Township; Coral Township; Dorr twp
