Illinois Vital Records -- Including Illinois births, Illinois deaths, Illinois marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Illinois Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put IL in the birth place field | 0ver 233,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Illinois Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Illinois in the birth place field | 0ver 1,400,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Illinois Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Illinois in the marriage place field | 0ver 930,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 | www.sos.state.il
.us/departments
/archives/marriage.html | 0ver a million | 1763-1900 | Free | Wow, what a wonderful site to have. I wish every state had done this! It has lots of information on how to search and the steps on how to proceed after finding your record. |
| RootsWeb Illinois Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Illinois in the death place field | 0ver 1,101,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Illinois Death Certificates 1916-1950 | www.sos.state.il
.us/departments/
archives/idphdeathindex.html | 0ver 3 million | 1916-1950 | Free | Wow! Another wonderful site from Illinois. I really wish all states had these records online as nice as Illinois does. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Illinois | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put IL in the Keyword Search | 0ver 310,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Illinois Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put IL in the death place field | 0ver 160,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find IL and put in the word "census" | 1279 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Illinois, 821 links | www.census-online
.com/links/IL/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Illinois Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/il-cem.htm | 3067 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |