Belvidere.net - Boone County Community Web Site

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USGenWeb - Boone County Genealogy

This list is for people interested in genealogy in Boone County, Illinois. The USGenWeb Project consists of a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. The Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone.

Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties.

The following link is for the Illinois State Archives Main Database page. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html
It has:

Illinois Land Sales from goverment 1817-1860.
Illinois Marriage Index thru 1900.
Illinois Death Index 1916-1950.
Illinois Civil War Index, etc...

This is the U.S. GenWeb Archives Boone County Cemetery Burials page:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/boone/boonecem.htm
It is seperate from USGENWEB, and contains 29 cemeteries burials so far. 12 more are expected to be added in near future.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library

The link below leads to the Wisconsin Civil War Enlistment Roster A-Z. Many of the Boone County men who enlisted in the Civil War, especially from the northern townships - Leroy Towhship & Manchester Township in Boone County enlisted in Wisconsin, or men of Norwegian descent enlisted in Wisconsin regiments and can be found through this site. They have an excellent search function on their website that may be helpful.
The link is:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/search.asp

In addition, here is the Dekalb County Geneology link.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildekalb/index.htm
Many farm famiies are connected to families just across the county lines.

Many thanks to Martin W. Johnson - Boone County Historian for his assistance in adding the above links to this page.

For further information, you may also contact:

Mr. Hanson
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library
816 West State St.
Madison, WI 53706-1482
Phone: 608-264-6400
Fax: 608-264-6404

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