Find more links at Illinois GenWeb Page Cook County and Linkpendium Cook County Genealogy and Family History.
Illinois
§ Ancestry.com Illinois research databases and records
§ Bureau of Land Management – General Land Office Records : Land Patent Search
§ Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) – Illinois, Cook, Chicago
§ Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
§ Illinois Death Records and Indexes
§ Illinois Historic Cemetery Preservation Handbook: A Guide to Basic Preservation
§ Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950: This card file is an index to petitions for residents of northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southern and eastern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa.
§ Illinois Parish Histories collection at the University of Notre Dame
§ Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1970: Images of will books, administrations, journals, inventories, guardian’s records, and order books from various counties in Illinois.
§ Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales
§ Illinois Regional Archives Depository System (IRAD): find out the holdings for each county
§ Illinois Vital Records Information
Archives, Libraries and Societies
Chicago
§ Archdiocese of Chicago’s Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Archives & Records Center
§ Chicago History Museum: Research sources: architecture and building history; archives and manuscripts; books and other published materials; family research; maps and atlases; prints and photographs; online resources.
§ CPL – Neighborhood History Research Collections
§ CPL – Sulzer Regional Library Northside Neighborhood History Collection
§ Hyde Park Historical Society
§ Chicagoancestors.org Discover the past by address, and much more. Includes links to articles published in Chicago Genealogist to a geographic location.
§ Newberry Library Genealogy News
§ University of Chicago Library
§ University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library
Suburban Cook County
§ Arlington Heights Memorial Library – Genealogy
§ Computer-Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois (CAGGNI)
§ Eastland Disaster Historical Society
§ Franklin Park Public Library
§ South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
§ Wilmette Family History Center: Holds films on Chicago records on permanent loan, such as Chicago Death Certificates 1878-1947; Coroner’s Death Certificates 1879-1904; Chicago Catholic church records. See brochure on website for more information.
Outside Cook County
§ Irish American Heritage Center
§ Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
§ Pointers in Person (Italian Genealogy)
§ Polish Genealogical Society of America
§ Swedish American Museum Center
General Genealogy
§ Civil War Pension Index Cards
§ Ancestry.com message boards: surnames, localities, topics
§ Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites
§ Genealogical forms to download: Artifacts and Heirlooms Record, Biographical Outline, Cemetery Transcription Form, Census Forms, Correspondence Log, Deed Index, Military Records Checklist, Note-Taking Forms, Research Calendar, Time Capsules…..and more!