Macoupin County, Illinois:
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Projects

• Digital History of Bunker Hill 
• Gillespie, Illinois in 2006 and before 
• Macoupin & Sangamon County Illinois Genealogical Material 
• Macoupin County ILGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Macoupin County Illinois Trails History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Greene County  to the west
• Jersey County  to the west
• Madison County  to the south
• Montgomery County  to the east
• Morgan County  to the north and northwest
• Sangamon County  to the north and northeast

Bible Records

• Macoupin County Bibles      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (14)

Cemeteries (27)

Census Records and Indexes (37)

Church Records

• Round Prairie Church Baptisms      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Court and Legal Records

• Coroner's Inquest Files  Index, 1835-1928     (Source: Illinois State Archives)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Macoupin County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Macoupin County Justices of Peace  Illinois Handbook of Information for the Year 1870     (Source: Illinois Digital Archives)
• Staunton Court Records Index  1930 - 1957     (Source: Ancestors at Rest)

Directories

• Illinois State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1858 and 1859  Brighton (page 22), Carlinvile (29), Chesterfield (34), Gillespie (100), Girard (101), Virden (219)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• The Nurseryman's Directory for the United States, 1883  Bunker Hill, page 88, Carlinville, page 89, Staunton, page 105     (Source: Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University)
• Partial List of Patrons  History of Macoupin County, Illinois (1879)     (Source: Morgan Area Genealogical Association)

Estate Records

• Illinois Probate Records  1819-1970     (Source: Family History Library)
• Macoupin County IL Probate Index A  (Earliest through 1881)     (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• Macoupin County IL Wills and Guardianship      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)

Ethnic

• Indian Tribes of Macoupin County      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Native Americans of the Bunker Hill Area      (Source: Digital History of Bunker Hill)

History (87)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Macoupin County Naturalization Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Naturalization Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Naturalization Records      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• Naturalization Records  Loose Papers and 1836-1890 Index     (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Land Records

• Family Maps of Macoupin County, IL      (Source: Arphax Publishing Co.)     ($)
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Macoupin County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (12)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Macoupin County Message Board      (Source: Illinois Trails History & Genealogy)
• Macoupin County, IL Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• macoupincountyresearch  Macoupin County Research - Genealogy in Macoupin county Illinois     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• RootsWeb Message Boards      (Source: RootsWeb)

• IL-WESTERN-L Western Illinois Genealogy

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

• ILMACOUP-L Macoupin County Genealogy

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

• ILMAGA-L Morgan Area Genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (58)

Military Records and Histories (38)

Miscellaneous Data

• Illinois Poorhouse History 
• Illinois State Genealogical Quarterly Index 
• Macoupin County Miscellaneous Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Macoupin County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Macoupin County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Macoupin County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Official register of physicians and midwives now in practice, 1877-1884  Macoupin County, pages 134-137, 267-268     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Postmasters by City, beginning from date established  Enter City = (Brighton, Hornsby (aka Honey Point), Modesto, Nilwood, Sawyerville, Virden, or Wilsonville) and choose ILLINOIS for State
• Surnames and Queries      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)

Newspaper Records

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

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (11)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (13)

School Records and Histories (16)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Macoupin County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Printer's Error in Call for Antislavery Convention  The earliest comprehensive list of abolitionists in Illinois, 1837     (Source: Illinois State Historical Society)

Societies

• Macoupin Chapter  Carlinville     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Macoupin County Genealogical Society      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• Macoupin County Historical Society  (brief)
• Morgan Area Genealogical Association 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (290)

Tax Lists

• 1835 and 1836 Debits and Credits Book      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• 1840 Tax List      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• 1853 Assessor List      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• Delinquent list for 1866 Chesterfield and Western Mound and 1865 Staunton and Mt Olive      (Source: Macoupin County ILGenWeb)
• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry (24)

Vital Records (12)

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