Resources
Offsite Resources
There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your
Macoupin County family history development. We hope you find these resource
links helpful. If you have additional Macoupin County resources that you
have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.
- Church Websites
- Family Websites
- Barton Scroggins includes
ADAMS, GRANT, SCROGGINS, TATUM, THURSTON, WALKER by John M. Scroggins
- FamilytombGenealogypages includes
ASH, BAHAN, BEHEN by Robyn Behen
- The Hyde Sides includes
BAYLESS, BIVENS, COOPER, FOSTER, JONES, MCGILVARY, OWENS, PATTERSON, SPENCE, SUTTON by Dan Hyde
- Weiss Family of Macoupin County, Illinois includes
BEAN, MITCHELL, PADDOCK, ROWAN, WEISS, YARAUM by Kim Kolk
- Parnell Genealogy includes
FYFE, HURTT, LINTON, PARNELL by Cathy Parnell Vance
- My French and German Ancestry includes
GUELLEMANN/GILLMAN by Joan Gillman
- Charles H. Meacham includes
MEACHAM by Charles Meacham
- ROSE Family Association
- Government Resources
- Macoupin County Archives - Contact the Circuit Clerk or County Clerk
- County Clerk, Macoupin County Courthouse, Carlinville, IL 62626
Monday - Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Phone 217-854-3214
A source for genealogy-use birth, marriage, & death certificates
- Schools - Regional Office of Education #40
Macoupin County Schools 1900-1930
- Illinois State Archives
Home Page
- Illinois State Archives
IRAD Fact Sheet
- Illinois State Archives
Global Database Search
- Illinois State Archives
Local
Governmental Records Listings 364-page pdf
- Illinois Vital Records Offices information for all Illinois counties
A source for genealogy-use birth, marriage, & death certificates
Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Vital Records
925 East Ridgely Ave., Springfield, IL 62702-2737, Phone 217-782-6553
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Illinois County Clerk and Recorder Portal to search
Deed Indexes for Macoupin county using free Guest Access. For a minimal
fee, you can also download the deeds, paying for them online. This is
much faster and less costly than requesting copies from IRAD after
giving them the book and page references.
- Map Websites
- Publication Websites
- Library of Congress
- Digital Public Library of America
- Search the Allen County Public Library -
Largest Public Library in the United States
- HeritageQuest Genealogy Books
-
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Newspaper Microfilm Collection
- Fulton History
Historical Newspapers United States and Canada folder includes pdf images of Mt. Olive IL Herald,
Staunton IL Star Times, and Virden IL Recorder
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
- Chronicling America - read old newspapers online
- Springfield Journal and Register for
current area obituaries
- Macoupin
County, Illinois Obituaries
- ObitCity
- OhioMemory
has a manuscript available titled
Some Facts About the Underground Railroad in Illinois, which has a Macoupin County memory on page 11
- "Later, perhaps in '57, or thereabouts, one Smith, a colored man, was
taking severai fugitives in a wagon with a white cover, a little east of
Chesterfield, 30 miles or more N.W. of Alton, when a group of men, armed,
ordered him to halt, that they might search his wagon. He turned out into
the prairie toward an open grove, with thick hazle [sic] bush around it, &
drove on full run, till the harness reins were shot off close to his hands,
& the horses ran into the brush, & all the darkies got out & hid & were not
found. The pursuers caught the tired horses, & brought them to the house of
Dea. Josiah Whipple, & were about to tie them there, when the Deacon forbade
them, & frightened them by telling them they were liable to arrest as
horse-thieves! The hunters did not catch the Slaves, nor Identify Smith."
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections -
A free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress
- Internet Archive offers many books, documents, etc.
- Project Gutenburg - online books
- Books on the Square is a used bookstore in Virden. John
Alexander, the owner, is interested in receiving and sharing
information on Virden History, the Virden Mine Riot of 1898, and the
122nd IL Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. If you are in Virden,
John would enjoy your stopping at his bookstore and chatting about
local history. The store is open Monday through Saturday, 9:00 to
6:00, phone 217-965-5443.
- Michelle’s Pharmacy, in Bunker Hill,
Carlinville, and Gillespie, has a variety of books about Macoupin County history
- Higginson Book Company
- Query Posts
- Society Websites
-
Social Security Death Index at FamilySearch
- Stephen P. Morse's
Social Security Death Index
-
IPUMS USA - U.S. Census Data for Social, Economic, and Health
Research, 1850-1950
Enumerator Instructions
- HonorStates
Military Gold Stars, those who died while in service during WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam
- FindAGrave
- Vesper Granite Associates, 17224 Prairie Lawn Road, Carlinville IL
62626, 1 888-834-5735;
Carlinville Monument Co 217-854-4115; Brighton
Monument Co 618-372-3974; Staunton Monument Co 618-635-2442; Virden Monument
Co 217-965-4406; They won't know anything about your ancestor, but if you
need a new stone or work on an old stone in Macoupin County, you could
contact them.
- Illinois Cemetery & Funeral Home Association -
Cemetery Laws
- FuneralNet - a place to
find addresses for Funeral Homes all over the United States and
Canada. It is also a place to find out what your deceased military
family member is entitled to receive.
- Benld Coliseum at YouTube
- Illinois
Coal Museum at Gillespie
- AmericanRails - Illinois Terminal Railroad
-
USGenWeb Archives – Macoupin County, Illinois
- Wikipedia, Macoupin County, Illinois
- Linkpendium
- USGS
GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
- Guide to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act
60-page pdf
- Migrations
and Migrations' Links
- Missouri State Archive Databases
-
Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
- History of the War of 1812 at Access Heritage
- 1940 Stories from Illinois History
- SysTran Translate your foreign language letters/diaries
to English from Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian (commercial site)
- Translation Site Babel Fish
- FamilySearch
- Tribal Pages
- The Ancestor Hunt
- Genealogy Trails with transcription of
Hilyard History
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
- Lori Case LookUps
in U.S. Genealogical CDs
- Old Time Medical Terms list with modern meanings
- 8th Grade Exam at Smoky
Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS. In 1914, Macoupin County 8th graders went to the courthouse to take the 8th grade examination, which
was probably similar to this exam. Can you pass an 1895 8th grade final examination?
Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for
your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the web sites or their
contents by the USGenWeb Project.
