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Wikipedia, St. Clair County
FamilySearch
FindAGrave
Maps of US
Land Patents - The original sale of land by the federal government is recorded in a land patent. This could be a available aid to locating your early settler ancestors. You might find a land patent for an ancestor by searching at The Bureau of Land Management. The site also allows you to view an image of the document, which will tell you where (county and state) the purchaser lived at the time of the purchase.
Locating Land - A good explanation of the system for mapping township sections is offered in the "Determining Location" topic located near the bottom of the Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales at Office of Illinois Secretary of State.
U.S. Surveyor General's Records for Illinois -- Federal Township Plats
1914 Topographical Map at Ball State University
1884 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Illinois State Genealogical Society
St. Clair County Genealogical Society an exceptional resource for your family history research, has many online collections
O'Fallon Historical Society has an index to O'Fallon Progress marriages and obituaries from 1898-1997
Marissa Historial and Genealogical Society
Millstadt Historical Society
1874 An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Clair Co. Illinois by Warner & Beers
1881 History of St. Clair County, Illinois by Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia
1883 History of Methodism in Illinois, from 1793 to 1832 by James Leaton
1894 Historical & Descriptive Review of Illinois, 230 pages
1898 History of the Lemen Family, of Illinois, Virginia and Elsewhere by Lemen, Frank B.
1905 A Narrative of Military Experience in Several Capacities: Part l, Reminiscences of the Mormon War in Illinois, 1845-46 by Everett, Edward
1910 The Greater Belleville, Saint Clair County, Illinois by J. A. Reid
1912 A History of Southern Illinois by George W Smith
1912 Pioneer Letters of Gershom Flagg by Gershom Flagg and Solon J Buck
1915 Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois by E. S. Walker
1918 Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
1919 Year Book 1919-1920: Officers of St. Clair County ... by Board of Supervisors
1927 History of Medical Practice in Illinois by Illinois State Medical Society
1928 Centennial, McKendree College: with St. Clair County history
1930 Illinois Baptists: A History by Edward P Brand
1934 A History of the Messenger Family ... Allied Families of Col. Matthew Lyon and Capt. James Piggott by Estelle MessengerHarrington
1938-1944 Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the year ... by Illinois State Historical Society [many more issues for following years are available]
1940 The American Miners' Association; a record of the origin of coal miners' unions in the United States by Wieck, Edward A.
1940 Stories from Illinois History
1945 Genealogical Record of the Werner, Schletzbaum, Martin, Bauer, Wetzer, Faulstich, Kuchs, Floyd, Jeffers, and Parker Families by Nicholas J Werner
1954 O'Fallon Centennial Celebration
1955 The Wildy Family, 1500-1955: Their Ancestral Tree by Mable Pearl Wildy
1957 Notes on the Family History of William B. McNail (1782-1868) by Stanley D McNail
1957 Biographical Sketches of the Foulks-Liggett Families by William E. Liggett
1959 Descendants of Christopher Day of Bucks County, Pennsylvania by James E Day
1959 Charles Springer of Cranehook-on-the-Delaware, his descendants and allied families by Springer, Jessie E
1959 Frank "Buster" Wortman by Federal Bureau of Investigation
1960 The Goodner Family; a genealogical history, ... Jacob Daniel Scherrer and notes on other allied families by Hubert Wesley Lacey
1960 The History of Some of the Descendants of the J. Rice Benson Family from Illinois and some of the Allied Families by M E Baber Benson
1962 The Ausmus Family by Harry L Ausmus
1975 Hired Hands and Plowboys: Farm Labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 by David E Schob
1976 Brevet's Illinois Historical Markers and Sites
1978 Western Illinois Regional Studies by Western Illinois University
1987 The River L'Abbe Mission: a French colonial church for the Cahokia Illini on Monks Mound by John A althall and Elizabeth D Benchley
1996 Belleville, Ottawa, and Galesburg: Community and Democracy on the Illinois Frontier by Kay J Carr
1998 Frontier Illinois by James E. Davis
2005 Illinois' German Heritage edited by Don H Tolzmann
2012 57 Years: A History of the Freedom Suits in the Missouri Courts by Anthony J Sestric
Digital Public Library of America
Library of Congress for online map, newpapers, books, and more
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Chronicling America
ObitCity
Illinois State Archives a good resource for your family history research
Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) Special Collections, Morris Library, Carbondale, IL 62901. Phone (618) 453-3040. Inexpensive documents, including marriage licenses, early land and will records, can be obtained from IRAD for less than fees charged at the courthouse. Turn-around time is about 2 to 3 weeks.
Illinois Department of Public Health maintains statewide registration of births and deaths from 1916 onward; a divorce index 1962-forward; marriage index 1962-forward. Certified copies can be obtained if one can show one's relationship; otherwise, non-certified copies will be provided for genealogical purposes. County clerks may also have birth and death records back to as early as 1878, and St. Clair has Proofs of Births and Deaths back to 1838.
St. Clair County Court House, 10 Public Square, Belleville, IL 62220-1698 ph (618) 277-6600. The County Clerk maintains copies of birth from 1878, death from 1878, and marriage licenses. [Note: The SCCGS, in volume 30 of their Quarterly, began running extracts from the death register 1878 - forward , and marriage index with date by bride from 1906.]
The Circuit Clerk has probate records from 1772. With permission from the Circuit Clerk, the St. Clair County Genealogical Society (SCCGS) is currently (7/2007) procuring duplicate microfilm rolls for deposit in the Belleville Public Library for use by the general public. The indexes are already at the BPL.
The Recorder of Deeds has the grantor-grantee index beginning 1986 online. There are no plans to put earlier indexes online since these are available for the earliest years through c1905 at the Belleville Public Library, and through IRAD.
Belleville Public Library, 121 East Washington, Belleville, phone (618) 234-0441. Aside from their own collection of St. Clair and Illinois statehood material, the library is the repository for the collections of the St. Clair County Genealogical Society. Featured records include the East St. Louis Journal Obituary Index 1889–1979, Belleville Newspaper Abstracts 1840–1940, county deed indexes to c1900, St. Clair census on microfilm, family history compilations, ounty death registers to 1942, and much more.
O'Fallon Public Library
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, formerly the Illinois State Historical Library, also maintains material on colonial and territorial Kaskaskia, a statewide newspaper collection on microfilm available on interlibrary loan, and much more. Use the ALPL Library Catalog on their old home page which includes manuscripts.
St. Louis Public Library has Obituary Indexes and other online indexes. Many St. Clair countians may be listed on their web site.
Missouri Historical Society online search of St. John's Orphanage Edition of The Messenger. History of the Diocese of Belleville (Belleville, Illinois: Published by Joseph Nicholas Buechler, [1919])
The National Archives of Canada and the provincial archives of Quebec maintain material on 18th century Kaskaskia.
BESKE Family see Henry (RN=22)
HARTMANN and MESSENGERS Families and Photo Collection
HILL Family
SOUHRADA Family and allied families HARTMANN, KORDT, KOUDELKA, LIDISKY, SORGMANN, VALTA, VOPICKA
VOGEL Family and allied families BOLTZ, DAVIDSON, HILL, QUICK, RITTENHOUSE
The Ancestor Hunt
GenealogyTrails - St. Clair County
1930 Census Instructions to Enumerators

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Books Not Yet Available Online

Belleville 1814–1914 by Arcadia Publishing, 2004
Biddleborn Trinity United Church of Christ Church Records and History 1878 – 2002
St. John United Church of Christ, New Athens History & Church Records, 1878-1979
St. Philip - Our Salvation History, French Village history of St. Philip parish from 1841-1982, indexes its cemetery as well as its parishoners as of 1982
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Millstadt, later became St. James

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