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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Jefferson County, MO  to the west
• Randolph County  to the southeast
• Saint Genevieve County, MO  to the southwest
• Saint Louis County, MO  to the northwest
• St. Clair County  to the northeast

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

• Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois  1883     (Source: Internet Archive)
• A history of southern Illinois  A narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests, Vol. 3     (Source: Online Collections at BYU)
• A history of southern Illinois  A narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume 2)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• A history of southern Illinois  A narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume 3)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Monroe County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Monroe County GEDCOM Index 
• Portrait and biographical record of Randolph, Jackson, Perry and Monroe counties, Illinois  1894     (Source: Internet Archive)

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (26)

Church Records

• Family Register of St. Paul Lutheran Church  Columbia, IL
• Holy Cross Lutheran Church records 1840-1950  Wartburg, IL     (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Salem Evangelical Church, Bluff Precinct  Baptism Index 1877-1932
• Salem Evangelical Church, Bluff Precinct  Confirmation Index 1878-1926
• St. Johannes Evangelical Church  Deer Hill, Illinois
• St. John United Church of Christ Index  Valmeyer, IL
• St. John United Church of Christ records 1860-1975  Mayestown, IL
• Zoar United Church of Christ, Bluff Precinct  Baptism Index, 1848-1953

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Monroe County Lawyers     (Source: Google Book Search)

Directories

• Prairie farmer's reliable directory of farmers and breeders of St. Clair and Monroe Counties, Illinois  1919     (Source: Internet Archive)

Estate Records

• Monroe County Estate Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)

Ethnic

• Emslanders to the American Mid-West 

History (26)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Illinois locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Monroe County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Monroe County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Monroe County Illinois Genealogy  Resources for Family History Research     (Source: Kindred Trails)
• Monroe County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Monroe County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Monroe Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Monroe County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Monroe, Randolph Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Monroe, St Clair Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards (20)

Maps and Gazetteers (15)

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

  • 1835 Revolutionary War Pensioners      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
  • Veteran Burials      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Illinois Poorhouse History 
• Illinois State Genealogical Quarterly Index 
• Migrations through Monroe County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Monroe County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Monroe County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Cataloged Titles      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)
• Monroe County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Newspapers Published in Monroe County      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Illinois Obituary Project      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Lawlor Funeral Home  Recent obituaries (searchable from 2002)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Columbia      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Hecker vicinity      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Waterloo      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• History of Waterloo Sts. Peter & Paul High School      (Source: Illinois High School Glory Days)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Monroe County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• The Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois 
• Monroe County Genealogical Society 
• Waterloo Historical Society 
• Whiteside Station Chapter  Waterloo     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Whiteside Station Chapter  Waterloo     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (91)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Monroe County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Directory of Coal Mines in Illinois  Monroe County
• Extant Illinois Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Harvesting the River  Northern Cross Railroad
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Monroe County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Official register of legally qualified physicians, 1912      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Patents  Monroe County, Illinois     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860  includes Monroe County, 1816 - 1850     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916  Dec.1877-Dec. 1899 (A-Z), Jan. 1900-Aug. 1900 (A only)     (Source: Illinois State Archives)
• Monroe County Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• Monroe County Vital Records Office      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Salem Evangelical Church, Bluff Precinct  Death Index 1877-1948
• Salem Evangelical Church, Bluff Precinct  Marriage Index 1877-1930
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Monroe County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Zoar United Church of Christ, New Hanover, IL  Death Index 1884-1953

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