Older Chicago-area cemeteries | Names and addresses of some cemeteries, about 1920 |
Lake Street businesses 1846 | Names and addresses of many of the businesses on Lake Street |
Illinois State Genealogical Society List of Cook County Cemeteries | Includes alternative names for cemeteries, locations, related web pages, and more. |
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 | You can do a surname search at this site to see if you can find a reference to the date and record of your ancestor's marriage. |
Cook County Clerk's Services (for vital records) | This page tells you how to obtain birth, marriage, and death records for Cook County |
USGenWeb's Cook County,Illinois Homepage |
Links to a wonderful Cook County surname search form.
A great site with suggestions, data, and many links that are especially helpful to the person researching genealogy in Cook County. You can also easily link to other Illinois genealogy and history sites from here. |
Newberry Library's Genealogy Section | The Newberry is a renowned source for information on history and genealogy. Through these web pages you can find out about its holdings and learn about researching there (or having someone look up information) |
Irish in Chicago 1830-1900 | Searchable database of many references; use search terms such as Chicago street-names and parish-names, locations in Ireland, and other words that are in the texts. |
Illinois State Archives Databases Click here to search all their online databases |
You can search in Public Domain Land Sale Records Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans Database of Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans |
Illinois in the Civil War | Many links to searchable databases and helpful information on Civil War Records. |
ALUMNI NET in Illinois or World-wide | A useful source for finding former students at colleges or high schools |
Partial 1850 Census | Generally has surnames similar to those of my family, but includes other surnames, especially of distinguished early Chicagoans |
MapsOnUs.switchboard.com | Use this to find a map of streets near your ancestor's home |
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