Winnebago County, Illinois:
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Projects

• Durand Area History      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Winnebago County History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Winnebago County ILGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Winnebago County, IL Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Boone County  to the east
• De Kalb County  to the southeast
• Green County, WI  to the northwest
• Ogle County  to the south and southwest
• Rock County, WI  to the north
• Stephenson County  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (28)

Cemeteries (21)

Census Records and Indexes (36)

Court and Legal Records

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

Directories

• Bibliography of Rockford City Directories  City Directories of the United States of America
• 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 Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders, Winnebago County Illinois  Madigan's Books     ($)
• Rockford City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Winnebago County, Illinois City, County and Rural Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)

Ethnic

• History of Swedish Immigration to Rockford, Illinois 
• Rockford's Black History 

History (66)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records

• Durand Area Early Landowners  Before 1849     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Family Maps of Winnebago County, IL      (Source: Arphax Publishing Co.)     ($)
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Winnebago County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (17)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• RockfordIL  Rockford IL Genealogy     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• RootsWeb Message Boards      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Winnebago County Message Board      (Source: Illinois Trails History & Genealogy)
• Winnebago County, IL Club      (Source: GenCircles)

• 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)

• ILWINNEB-L Winnebago County Genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (70)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • The Civil War at Beloit 
  • Civil War Units      (Source: Illinois in the Civil War)

• Revolutionary War

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

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Army Casualties  Part 1 (Abramovich-Jordan)     (Source: U. S. National Archives & Records Administration)
  • Army Casualties  Part 2 (Jory-Zielinski)     (Source: U. S. National Archives & Records Administration)
  • Casualties      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
  • Winnebago County, Illinois  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• AncestorSpy Books and CDs      ($)
• Illinois Poorhouse History 
• Illinois State Genealogical Quarterly Index 
• The Mendelssohn Club cook book  Rockford, Illinois     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Migrations through Winnebago County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Winnebago County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Winnebago County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Cataloged Titles      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)
• Chronicling America  Winnebago County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspapers Published in Winnebago County      (Source: Illinois Newspaper Project)
• Search Rockford Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Winnebago County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Honquest Family Funeral Homes  Loves Park and Roscoe, Illinois
• Illinois Obituary Project      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)
• North Suburban Local History Obituary Records 
• Obituary Index  Individuals born in Winnebago County
• Rockford Register Star  Recent Obituaries (past 30 days)
• Rockford Register Star      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Rockford, Illinois Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Winnebago County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Illinois Archives)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (17)

School Records and Histories (23)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Winnebago County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• Cherry Valley Historical Society 
• Kishwaukee Genealogists 
• Pecatonica Historical Society 
• Rockford Chapter      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Rockford Chapter      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• The Swedish Historical Society of Rockford 
• Winnebago & Boone Counties Genealogical Society 
• Winnebago and Boone Counties Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (261)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Winnebago County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Emerson, Talcott & Co  Rockford, Illinois     (Source: Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University)
• 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  Winnebago County, Illinois     (Source: Google Patents)
• Railroad      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Winnebago County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Winnebago County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860  includes Winnebago County, 1836 - 1850     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Winnebago County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Winnebago County     (Source: Family History Library)
• Winnebago County Clerk 
• Winnebago County Vital Records Office      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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