McHenry County, Illinois:
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Projects

• McHenry County ILGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• McHenry County Illinois Trails History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Old Algonquin 

Adjacent counties

• Boone County  to the west
• Cook County  to the south and southeast
• De Kalb County  to the south and southwest
• Kane County  to the south
• Kenosha County, WI  to the northeast
• Lake County  to the east
• Walworth County, WI  to the north

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Biographical directory of the tax-payers and voters of McHenry County  1877     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of McHenry County, Illinois  1885     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of McHenry County, Illinois (Volume 1)  1922     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of McHenry County, Illinois (Volume 2)  1922     (Source: Internet Archive)
• McHenry Co, Illinois, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• McHenry County Biographies      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• McHenry County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• McHenry County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (15)

Census Records and Indexes (36)

Church Records

• Early Records of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church      (Source: McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society)

Court and Legal Records

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

Directories

• Directory of McHenry County, 1877  AncestorSpy     ($)
• McHenry County, Illinois City, County, and Rural Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)
• Northern Counties Gazetteer and Directory  1855-6     (Source: Google Books)
• The Northern Counties Gazetteer and Directory, for 1855-6  A Complete and Perfect Guide to Northern Illinois Counties of Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Prairie Farmer's Directory, 1917  AncestorSpy     ($)

Estate Records

• Illinois Probate Records  1819-1970     (Source: Family History Library)

History (89)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Illinois, County Naturalization Records  1800-1962     (Source: Family History Library)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives (14)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• ILMcHenry-Rooters Mailing List      (Source: GenExchange)
• McHenry County Message Board      (Source: Illinois Trails History & Genealogy)
• McHenry County, IL Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• RootsWeb Message Boards      (Source: RootsWeb)

• IL-BARRINGTON-L Barrington Area Genealogy

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

• ILMCHENR-L McHenry County Genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (66)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • Civil War Units      (Source: Illinois in the Civil War)

• Revolutionary War

  • Veteran Burials      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  McHenry County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Early Settler Certificate Program      (Source: McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society)
• Illinois Poorhouse History 
• Illinois State Genealogical Quarterly Index 
• McHenry County Historical Statistics  McHenry County Historical Society
• McHenry County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• McHenry County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through McHenry County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Records of McHenry County  Free surname index     ($)

Newspaper Records (20)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (21)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Regional History Center Digitalization Project 
• Penny Postcards from Illinois      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Views of Algonquin's Past      (Source: Old Algonquin)
• Illinois--McHenry County--Harvard.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Illinois--McHenry County--Woodstock.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Marengo      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Woodstock vicinity      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories (11)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• McHenry County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies (13)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (194)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of McHenry County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Illinois Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Financial position of a representative group of McHenry County farmers  in the dairy region of northern Illinois 1940-1942     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Groundwater protection mapping for McHenry County, Illinois      (Source: Internet Archive)
• McHenry County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• McHenry County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Official register of legally qualified physicians, 1912      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Patents  McHenry County, Illinois     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

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

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