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:
- They must
have information pertaining to the counties I host for Illinois Genealogy Trails
- They should be helpful to a wide array of researchers (preferably not just
one family surname and preferably not a site of just a gedcom/tree.)
- Though not strictly necessary, they should also agree to provide link-backs
to my appropriate Illinois Genealogy Trails website.
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 Pension Lists
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!)
Coles County Links
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
Jasper County Links
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
Cumberland County Links
Block
Cemetery Listing (partial) Richard & Misty's main index
Hazel
Dell Church of God Cemetery (partial) Richard & Misty's main index
Elliott
Cemetery Listing
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 Links
St. Charles High School Local History Archives & St. Charles Heritage Center Kane County
Biography Index
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
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