Maps & Placenames:
• County outlines.
• Illinois state gazetteer and business directory, for the years 1864-5..
• Historical Maps Online.

Guides to Research in Illinois:
• Family Search wiki page.
• Newberry Library. See their Research Guides and holdings.

Resource and Database Sites, State:
• Illinois State Archives; Databases.
• Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System for local records.
• 1855 State Census and 1865 State Census at FamilySearch.
• Illinois State Genealogical Society, including Prairie Pioneer Certificates.
• Northeastern Illinois Obituary and Death Notice Collection.
• Illinois Digital Archive.
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections.
• Illinois Newspaper Project.
• Illinois State Library; Catalog.
• Browse list of Illinois collections at FamilySearch.
• Illinois GenWeb.
• Illinois Genealogy Trails
• Illinois Newspaper Index, some suburban Chicago papers.
• Laws of Illinois, historical publications, digitized and searchable.
• My Genealogy Hound, publishing bio's from mug books, including Illinois.

Web Directories:
• Cyndi's List for Illinois.
• Linkpendium Illinois.
• Online Illinois Naturalization Records and Finding Aids.
• Online Illinois Death Records and Indexes.
• Online Illinois School Records.
• Midwestern Microhistory, a genealogy blog for current awareness.

Resource and Database Sites, Boone County:
• GenWeb.
• Boone County in Genealogy Trails site.
• Winnebago & Boone Counties Genealogical Society.
• Boone County Museum of History, including obits file.
• Boone County Cemetery file.
• Ida Public Library genealogy links.
• Ancestry Message Board, Boone County. You don't need an Ancestry subscription to use this.
• Boone County GenForum. No longer active, but posts are still online.

Resource and Database Sites, Cook County [Chicago]:
• Chicago Ancestors. From Genealib: "1928/1929 is the last city directory published for Chicago."
• The Chicago Genealogist, v. 1-39, 1969-2007.
• Chicago Public Library Archives and Special Collections.
• Encyclopedia of Chicago. Searchable and has list of entries.
• Clerk of Court Archives. Declarations of Intentions -- may be from a wider area.
• Chicago Genealogy Records on the Net.
• Links to Online Chicago & Cook County Death Records and Indexes.
• About Chicago street numbering, from Chicago History Museum.
• Chicago phone directories at Library of Congress.
• Directory and Register of Women's Clubs: City of Chicago and Vicinity, 5th ed., 1915.

This page last updated 20 Nov 2023.

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