Genealogy

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.

• Illinois Gen Web

Newspaper Search

• Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers

• California Digital Newspaper Collection - free

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

• Family Search

• Freedman’s Bureau

• 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 Digital Heritage

• Missouri Obits - great searchable list of obits

• Book Search - Genealogy Gophers

• Military Indexes

• UK Geanealogy - list compiled by Who Do You Think You Are

• USGENWEB

Union County Illinois Vital Records / Union County Clerk

P.O. Box H

Jonesboro, IL 62952-0478

Phone: (618)833-5711