
Genealogy Links
I've had a number of requests to provide links to other websites, which I don't usually do as a rule. There are other websites that provide this function much better than I could ever hope to, but that being said, listed below you will find websites that I have agreed to provide links for. The criteria I'm using to decide whether to provide a link is as follows:
Our main Illinois Genealogy Trails webpage at http://genealogytrails.com/ill has many more of
the well-known links (i.e. state archives, Cyndi, obit sites, etc.) and I won't duplicate them here.
Some helpful pages from our Illinois Genealogy Trails Main Website to help in your research:
List of Early Illinois Settlers
Illinois Genealogy Trails Online Census Records
Earliest records that are available in each Illinois county’s courthouse
Non-Illinois Genealogy Trails Website Links
[Coles
County] [Jasper
County] [Cumberland
County] [Kane
County]
(Disclaimer: These are off-site links. I make no guarantees or endorsements as to their content....but... well,
gee, I wouldn't be providing a link if I didn't think the site was worthwhile!)
Current Obituaries are online at the Journal Gazette-Times Courier website
The Haunting of EIU's Pemberton Hall in Charleston
History of the Zion Hill (Paradise) Methodist Church
Coles County Genealogical Society (This is the site run by the society themselves - not the Coles genweb site. There is some good background history listed here.)
This website contains letters from Mary Jamieson Leland Cox, who lived in Coles County, to her family members back in Virginia. They tell of her hardships in Coles and also mention children's names, etc. If you're researching the COX family, this will be useful. If not, it still makes for darn interesting historical reading. Here's a direct link to Mary's letters And here's a link to Rick Leland's Homepage
Resthaven Memorial Gardens Cemetery (partial listing) Richard & Misty's main index
Chris Rankin's "Save Mattoon" website - Contains lots of pictures of Mattoon buildings.
Dodge Grove Cemetery Listings - presented by the City of Mattoon
Leamon Cemetery, Yale - Richard & Misty's main index
McFadden Cemetery, Grandville Township (partial listing) Richard & Misty's main index
Ste. Marie Cemetery (partial listing)- Richard & Misty's main index
Yale City Cemetery (partial listing) - Richard & Misty's main index
Block Cemetery Listing (partial) Richard & Misty's main index
Hazel Dell Church of God Cemetery (partial) Richard & Misty's main index
Look-up in the Cemetery Records - all 20,000 of them!!! This very generous offer is from Mary at Mary14@cfl.rr.com
Cumberland County Information
Kane County Genealogical Society
Batavia Historical Society - They will do look-ups for obits in Batavia newspapers for you (I don't know if they do it for free, so be sure and clarify that)
Elgin Historical Society
Withey Family Website of Kaneville Township - contains census transcriptions for Kaneville
Amerikin Genealogy - specializing in these surnames: BINNIE - COOKe - CLYDE - CRICHTON - DUFF - FAIRWEATHER - KERR - McLAREN - McLEAN - MILLER - MITCHELL - OGDEN - REID - SHEPHERD / SHEPPARD - TEMPLEMAN/TEMPLETON - WILSON
Return to Illinois Trails Jasper County Index Page
Return to Illinois Trails Coles County Index Page
Return to Illinois Trails Kane County Index Page
Return to Illinois Genealogy Trails Cumberland County Index Page