Illinois Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your Illinois ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many IL web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free to search, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
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. |
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