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AVAILABLE ONLINE RECORDS

Cemeteries

Bohnemeier Cemetery

Mt. Hope Cemetery (updated!)

Mt. Hope photos

Persons buried in Holy Childhood Cemetery - Mascoutah
In the year 1947

Persons buried in Mascoutah City Cemetery
In the year 1947

Walnut Hill Cemetery
Partial Transcription; new additions added 11-8-2001

Census/Directories

The 1820 Census of St. Clair County, Illinois

The 1860 Census of St. Clair County, Illinois

An Every Name Index for the 1860 Census
Use this to help you locate your ancestors quickly and easily!

1860 Mortality Census

Genealogy Trails online Census Records
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Maps & History

1920 Map of St. Clair County, Illinois

A History of Cahokia
as taken from the E. St. Louis Gazette in 1866

Historical Information on St. Clair County, Illinois

1798 St. Clair County Land Grants

1811 Petition For Land
This petition is a request for land to lay out a new town, lots of names

Biographies

Church Records

 
Trinity Luthern Church Burial Register
East. St. Louis, Illinois 1915 - 1919
 
Oak Hill Baptist Church Membership Rolls
February 10, 1851 - Janury 4, 1863

Oak Hill Baptist Church Minutes
February 10, 1851 - Janury 4, 1863

Schools

1952 3rd Grade Class, Lafayette Grade School

Naturalization Records

Passengers who came to St. Clair County
Listed according to ship

St. Clair County Naturalizations
(1838-1844)

27 Who filed for Naturalization

Military

Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in St. Clair County


Captain James B. Moore's Mounted Riflemen

31 May 1812


World War II Casualties from St.Clair County, IL

Newspaper Items

1849/1850 California Gold Camp Letters

To St.Clair County Residents
The East St. Louis Gazette June 28, 1866

Grand Jurors for the September 1881 Term

Circuit Clerk Cases for the week beginning October 6, 1890
(includes divorces)

East St. Louis Journal

Excerpts from March, 1890

Board of Supervisors, regular monthly meeting, Tuesday, March 3, 1891
 
Lebanon Advertiser Newspaper Index
Index for articles and obits from 1900 - 1944

Miscellaneous newspaper items from MARCH 23, 1959

Be sure to check here for marriages and deaths

East St. Louis Journal

 Mascoutah Herald

Mr. Godin's Rooster sets, Hen lays
Humorous article from the East St. Louis Journal, dated 26 January, 1910

Miscellaneous Items

The First Hanging - In Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois

Turkey Hill Settlers "Wipe Out" a tribe of Timari Indians
As told by Mr. Henry Stallmann

Indian Bones Found At Falling Springs

Photo of Falling Springs

East St. Louis Electors from 1869

East St. Louis election news from 1869

East St. Louis Town and City Officers
1859-1892

The History of the Cahokia Fire Department

The 1896 Tornado!
This tornado hit St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois on May 27, 1896

DEATH RECORDS

The 1860 Mortality Schedule


Obituaries
Obituaries Index
Deaths from the Illinois Death Index
Deaths from the County Death Register
1917 Deaths
Accidental Shooting Deaths
Deaths by Lightening Strikes
Miscellaneous Death Listings

Trinity Luthern Church Burial Register
East. St. Louis, Illinois 1915 - 1919

Charles Jacquot killed in 1963 Mining Blast

Grave of J. B. Piot, French Settler

Death on the rail
Railroad accident in Belleville in April of 1884

THE FUNERAL BOOK OF:

Leon Jones

FAMILY RECORDS

Buthe/Lammers Family Bio

Dietz Family Marriages

Dietz Family Births

Dietz Family Deaths

Koudelka Family Records

 The Robert Lemen Family

Jacquot Family Marriage Records

Jacquot Family Birth Records

Jacquot Wills

Reiss Family Marriages

Sorgman/Sorgmann Family Records

VALTA/WALTA and its extended families:
SOUKUP, KOUDELKA, LIDISKY, PECHMAN

Koudelka Golden Wedding Anniversary 

July 3, 1928 Picture of "The Rip Track Gang"
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Workers
(LARGE PICTURE!)

 

 COUNTY ADDRESSES

St. Clair County Genealogical Society

PO Box 431 
Belleville, IL 62222-0431
 

Located at the Belleville Public Library
*They have online indexes, so be sure to visit when you're finished here!

 St. Clair County Courthouse
10 Public Square
Belleville, IL 62220
(618)277-6600

Marriages, Births, Deaths - County Clerk's Office
Wills, Probates, Naturalizations, Divorces, Adoptions, etc. - Circuit Clerk's Office

Charge - the cost is now $12.00 for search, all others $10, both nonrefundable fees

STATE ADDRESSES

Illinois State Archives
 

Margaret Cross Norton Bldg.
Capitol Complex
Springfield, IL 62756
 

Telephone: 
(217) 782-4682
Fax: (217) 524-3930

ILLINOIS ARCHIVES IRAD DIVISION
 

(Illinois Regional Archives Depository)

Located at Universities through-out the State
IRAD Facilities hold many County Records.

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