Researching your family in Southern Illinois? Below you will find websites that I have found helpful. They provide information (many free) for the area.
Please feel free to add your family site or other site pertaining to the area below in the comments.
My go-to websites:
1. Illinois Databases -- marriage, death and military records from the state of Illinois
2. Jonesboro Gazette --obituaries and death notices -- transcribed by Darrel Dexter -- thanks!
Camp Ground Cumberland Presbyterian Church ( Anna, Union County )
Water Valley, Union County, Illinois
Newspaper Clippings
Townes - Stafford Family
Illinois in the Civil War Project
Civil War Article
History of the 119th IL Infantry
Rowan Roots
History of Union County
A Graveyard Obsession
US GenWeb for Illinois
Old Photographs From Illinois
African Americans in Southern Illinois
Rev John Crawford
Genealogy Trails for Illinois
Jon's Southern Illinois History Page (a few links are outdated)
Bill Carr's Southern Illinois History
Lambert's of Southern Illinois
Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois
Genealogy Trails in Illinois
McMinn Family Tree
Sifford and Goodman Family
Allison Family of Southern Illinois
Ferrill Family
McKee Family
Tweedy Family
Eaves Family
Jaco Family
Grammer, Barker, McGraw, Clapp, Lewis Family
Barber Family
Penrod Family that went to Utah
Selection of Biographies
Union County, Illinois military records from 1832
American Memories from the Library of Congress ( several scenic and nature pics of the area, use search words : photos in Southern Illinois, photos in Union County, photos in Pope County, photos in Anna, Illinois, photos in Cobden, Illinois ---- just as a starting point)
The next 5 links were found at the American Memories website(above):
Picture of man at the Anna Stone Quarry
Union County, Illinois - picture of gas station and road house
Picture of old log cabin in Union County
Picture of old log cabin in Pope County , another here
Union County 1881 Map (scroll down to see the maps, then click on the one that interest you, then scroll down again, you can enlarge the map and see landmarks and land owners)
Union County 1908 Map (same instructions as above)
Search for other maps here.
http://www.iltrails.org/counties.html <--- this is not a current website, you can howerver use the WayBack Machine to visit the last impression of the site on the web here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040409100941/http://www.iltrails.org/counties.html
Free ebook -- Early society in Southern Illinois by Robert Wilson Patterson, Chicago Historical Society
Free ebook --
Free ebook --
Free ebook -- History of Union County
Another free ebook -- Difficult to read
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