Edgar County, Illinois Genealogy and History  Welcome to the Illinois Genealogy Trails Edgar County website.  This website is available for adoption! If you have any data you would like to contribute to this county's website: family histories from the old county history books, biographies, births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, cemetery and census data, county and town histories, newspapers, old historical postcards, &c., please SEND IT TO US. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. WE HAVE SET UP A RESEARCH HELP PAGE TO ANSWER MOST OF THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH IN ILLINOIS. PLEASE REFER TO THIS PAGE. THANKS! About the Genealogy Trails History Group Join the Illinois Genealogy Trails Mailing List to be kept notified of updates 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 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 and Towns Brocton Chrisman Elbridge   Grandview   Hume Kansas Metcalf Paris Redmon Vermilion Unincorporated Villages Edgar Horace Bloomfield  Our 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/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr 2013: bio for HALL Previous Updates: JAMES obit; Crime news for THOMPSON; 1929 Roll of Honor of soldiers; 1850 Mortality Schedule.; Rev. War Soldiers buried in Edgar co.; WW2 Casualties; WW1 mothers entitled to make the trip to European war cemeteries; New obituaries and newspaper gleanings; county history; EARLY PRESBYTERIANS; 1877, 1878, 1881 gossip, sick list and community news gleanings. Death notice for KOHO SEARCH OUR SITES Visit our Illinois State Site If you need help with your research, please visit our Illinois Research Help page. You'll find many helpful suggestions, resources and links. Join the Illinois Genealogy Trails Mailing List to be kept notified of updates Don't miss visiting the State areas of Illinois Genealogy Trails Illinois State Military Illinois State Data Illinois Events Illinois Census Visit the Illinois Counties surrounding Edgar: Clark Coles Douglas Vermilion   Vigo County, IN Vermillion County, IN   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 for prices and guidelines before you send your request *A list of dates records are available can be found on our Courthouse Earliest Record Holdings page Edgar County Historical Complex Pesky Copyright Information 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 for use by Genealogy Trails History Group. As such, this data is not to be used for profit, or for presentation elsewhere without express permission of the owner, nor should the data presented on these pages be presented in such a way that the work appears to be part of another site (i.e. frame-capturing).  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.  Copyright © Genealogy Trails ©2009-2012 Genealogy Trails History Group ©2006-2008 Kevin Ortman and Genealogy Trails History Group All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.