Boone County, Illinois:
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Projects

• Boone County ILGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Boone County Illinois Trails History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Boone County, IL Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• De Kalb County  to the south and southeast
• McHenry County  to the east
• Ogle County  to the southwest
• Rock County, WI  to the north
• Walworth County, WI  to the northeast
• Winnebago County  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (26)

Cemeteries (18)

Census Records and Indexes (38)

Church Records

• Boone County Church Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• St. Joseph's Catholic Church members who served in WWI      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Boone County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Directories

• Bibliography of Belvidere City Directories  City Directories of the United States of America
• City Directories: Southern Midwest, 1882-1898  includes Boone County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Northern Counties Gazetteer and Directory  1855-6     (Source: Google Books)
• The Northern Counties Gazetteer and Directory, for 1855-6  A Complete and Perfect Guide to Northern Illinois Counties of Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago     (Source: Internet Archive)

History (20)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records

• Boone County Land Records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Boone County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (11)

Lookups

• Boone County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Boone County Message Board      (Source: Illinois Trails History & Genealogy)
• Boone County, IL Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• RootsWeb Message Boards      (Source: RootsWeb)

• IL-NORTHERN-L Northern Illinois Genealogy

  • IL-NORTHERN-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IL-NORTHERN-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • IL-NORTHERN-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• ILBOONE-L Boone County Genealogy

  • ILBOONE-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • ILBOONE-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • ILBOONE-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (63)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883      (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • Canaba  A story of captive boys in blue     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • Civil War      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
  • Civil War Units      (Source: Illinois in the Civil War)

• Revolutionary War

  • Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois  Boone County     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • Veteran Burials      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

• World War I

  • St. Joseph's Catholic Church members who served      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Boone County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Army Casualties      (Source: U. S. National Archives & Records Administration)
  • Boone County, Illinois  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)
  • Casualties      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Miscellaneous Data

• AncestorSpy Books and CDs      ($)
• Boone County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Boone County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Illinois Poorhouse History 
• Illinois State Genealogical Quarterly Index 
• Migrations through Boone County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Boone County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Cataloged Titles      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)
• Chronicling America  Boone County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspapers Published in Boone County      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Boone County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Illinois Obituary Project      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Regional History Center Digitalization Project 
• Boone County Old Photos      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Penny Postcards from Illinois      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Postcards      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Belvedere Illinois Old Photos      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Belvidere      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Belvidere Public Library      (Source: Post Card Library)

School Records and Histories

• Belvidere High School Baseball Team, 1930      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Belvidere High School, Belvidere, IL  1932 Belvi yearbook     (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Belvidere, IL High School 1930 Football Team      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Belvidere, IL High School 1931 Lightweight Basketball Team      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Belvidere, Illinois High School 1926 Football Team      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Belvidere, Illinois High School Class of 1928      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• History of Caledonia High School      (Source: Illinois High School Glory Days)
• History of Capron High School      (Source: Illinois High School Glory Days)
• History of Poplar Grove High School      (Source: Illinois High School Glory Days)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Boone County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• Asa Cottrell Chapter  Belvidere     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Kishwaukee Genealogists 
• Winnebago & Boone Counties Genealogical Society 
• Winnebago and Boone Counties Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (256)

Transportation and Industry

• Boone County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Building histories of Boone County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Illinois Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Official register of legally qualified physicians, 1912      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Patents  Boone County, Illinois     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Boone County Clerk  Birth Certificate Requests
• Boone County Vital Records Office      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860  includes Boone County, 1837 - 1850     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Boone County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Boone County     (Source: Family History Library)

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