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Welcome to
Macoupin County
Genealogy and History
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presented
by
Illinois Trails
a part of the Genealogy Trails
History Group
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
Welcome to Genealogy
Trails
My
name is Debbie Hemberger and as your Macoupin/IL host, I will post as much
data online as possible
in order to make it freely available
to all. We gratefully accept
contributions of raw data such as census
information, marriage/birth/death records and obituaries, county histories,
biographies,
old newspaper items - anything that would help build a family tree.
Feel
free to email
me with your contributions – every little bit helps.
We
need your data contributions to make this a great site for research!
Everything is helpful: Obituaries, Biographies, County History, Census
Records, and Family Bible Records.
It would be very helpful to type the information in a text, or doc file
before sending to us.
Scanned documents (newspaper article, hand written) are hard to interpret
and we want to get it right.
As data becomes available, it will be placed
on this site.
Note: We do not put gedcoms or family trees online.
All information collected will be posted as fast
as we can collect and transcribe it.
Send other types of data directly to US
We
have an easy form to Submit an Obituary
With regret; we are unable to do personal research.
Thank you for visiting the Macoupin County website and please come back
often
to view our genealogy updates.
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LOOKUP
OFFER:
Diane Rapp will do
lookups from the "History of Macoupin County, Illinois", 1897
Email her at dburf@yahoo.com
(Her family lines are Rhoads, Talley and Shultz)
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Established January 17, 1829
The county seat is Carlinville
Macoupin County was named after the Macoupin
Creek, which flows through the county
and is derived from the Indian word for the water lilies that grew along
the creek.
The tubers for the water lilies were a food source for the Native
Americans.
Present Area, or parts of it, were formerly included in:
St. Clair - 1790-1812, Madison- 1812-1821 and 1825-1829, Greene
-1821-1829
ONLINE
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Other
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New Data Added to This Site
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March 2011: Biography-Chapman, Brick
Wall-Caudle
September 2010: Macoupin County
News
August 2010: Obituaries
Oct 2009: DORSEY obituary
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