Genealogy
Union County Genealogy & History Links
Union County Links:
100 Years of Progress: The Centennial History of Anna Illinois (1954) - online searchable book
A History of Southern Illinois, Volume I - III 1912 - includes pictures, index
Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois
Searchable Obituaries and Death Notices in the Jonesboro Gazette 1858-1939
Union County 1908 Atlas - .jpg of Atlas, includes maps, homes, people index
Illinois Links:
Illinois State Archives - searchable database, marriage, death, military
Orphan Trains of Illinois - The Orphan Trains placed children from the Eastern United States on farms in the Midwest States from 1851 until 1929.
Newspaper Search
Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers
Other Links
American Memory - Library of Congress
Access Genealogy - includes records specific to Native and African American ancestry
AfriGeneas site devoted to African American genealogy
Bureau of Land Management - Search Documents
Jewish Genealogy Global Home for Jewish Genealogy
Making of America Books - Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Missouri Obits - great searchable list of obits
Book Search - Genealogy Gophers
UK Geanealogy - list compiled by Who Do You Think You Are
Union County Illinois Vital Records / Union County Clerk
P.O. Box H
Jonesboro, IL 62952-0478
Phone: (618)833-5711