Welcome to Randolph 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! 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 this county website, 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 The county was organized in 1795 out of a part of St. Clair County. It was named in honor of Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia. Chester is the county seat Cities and Towns * Baldwin * Chester * Coulterville * Ellis Grove * Evansville * Kaskaskia * Percy * Prairie du Rocher * Red Bud * Rockwood * Ruma * Sparta * Steeleville * Tilden Unincorporated Communities * Glenn * Grigg * Menard * Modoc * Schuline * Walsh * Welge * Wine Hill Many thanks to these Fans of Free Genealogy for their contributions to this site: Jeana Gallagher Stephanie Thornton Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills Website Updates: Mar 2013: biographies for EDWORDS, MIDDENDORF, DEROUSSE, WILLIAMS, GORDON, LINDSEY, DOUGLAS, GANT, NIXON, MURPHY, WRIGHT, RICHARDSON, FISHER, BOLLINGER, HARGIS Feb 2013: biographies for COLE, ST.VRAIN, MCBRIDE, GORDON, SHANNON, WILTSHIRE, JOHNSON, NEVILL, SCHUCHERT, SPENCER, THE VALLEY CLARION, POLLACK, HOOD, HOLLOWAY, KNAPP Oct 2012: Military news item for BOSWELL; 1859 directory of Steeleville, Harmon, Coulterville and Florence; Soldiers from WW1; bio for CHARLES SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Illinois Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. Adjacent Counties * Monroe County (northwest) * St. Clair County (north) * Washington County (northeast) * Perry County (east) * Jackson County (southeast) * Perry County, MO (south) * Ste. Genevieve Co, MO (southwest) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit ILLINOIS TRAILS Many thanks to longtime host Jeana Gallagher for all her hard work on this website! Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.