• Illinois State Archives
• Illinois Marriage Index
• Illinois Death Index 1916–1950
• Pre-1916 Illinois Death Index
• Illinois Regional Archives Depository at Northeastern Illinois University
• IRAD Local Governmental Records Holdings Database
• Newberry Library Web Site
• Chicago Historical Society (CHS) Web Site
• Illinois Newspaper Project
• Chicago Public Library
• Cook County Bureau of Vital Statistics
• Cook County Circuit Court Archives
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Web Site
• USGenWeb
USGenWeb is a network of sites created and run by genealogy volunteers around the country.
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Genealogist Cyndi Howells maintains more than 235,000 categorized links on this site, making it especially good if you are
searching for a set of relevant Web sites on a particular genealogical subject.
• A Look at Cook
A site run by a former Chicagoan who created maps of the Chicago wards and enumeration districts (areas assigned to the
enumerator, or census taker) for the censuses of 1870 to 1930.
• Cook County Mailing List on RootsWeb.com
• Ancestry.com
A commercial Web site that provides a wide variety of databases for home subscribers and libraries. The company has scanned
in digital images of every U.S. census and has created nationwide indexes for many of the census years, including 1870, 1880,
1900, and 1920 (at the time this book was published).
• HeritageQuest Online
A subscription Web site available through libraries; some if which allow their members access from home. |