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Jersey County, Illinois

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Hi, I'm Judy Griffin, the coordinator for the Jersey County, Illinois GenWeb page.
Please email jerseygriff@gmail.com with your comments, suggestions, contributions and corrections for these pages.
I live in Wisconsin, my maternal family line came to the Jersey County area before 1839.

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Jersey County Research

Addresses for Jersey County Research

Jersey County Historical Society. Jersey County Historical Society, 601 N. State St., Jerseyville, IL 62052, phone 618-498-3514, open on Thursday afternoon 1 until 4, Friday and Saturday from 10 until 4. The Society celebrates its 100th year at their Apple Festival, October 3, 2009. Historical tours, entertainment, craft booths, raffles. Society serves Pioneer Stew, and other foods. Information on their website, link above, or phone 618-498-2876.

Family Histories located at the Jersey County Historical Society, partial list.

Illinois State Archives Online Databases. Has a global search of all databases. Records include: Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, Illinois Veterans, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index (1763-1900), Illinois Death Certificates, pre-1916 and 1916–1950, Records in the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories (IRAD).

Illinois Digital Archives. Provided by the Illinois State Library.
Tri County Preservation Society, Marty Crull's website. Covers Jersey, Greene and Calhoun counties

Jerseyville Library Resources

Jersey County Cemeteries online at the Illinois State Genealogical Society cemetery location project. Help is needed to up-date Jersey County information. There is an email address on the page for additions and corrections.

Can you help by providing the missing information on any of these Jersey Co. Cemetery Burials?

West Central Illinois Morgan Area Genealogical Association & Waverly G & H Society

Illinois Gazetteer 1864 Illinois state gazetteer and business directory, for the years 1864-5 (1864) or flip book view Illinois Gazetteer 1864. Large files.

Links - Jersey County Families, Information

Reddish Murder Mystery
French Family CARTER, FOLEY, FRENCH, GUNN, LYON, McGUIRE, MURPHY, READ, SCHNEIDER, WHITE
Crull Family ALLEN, BENNETT, CRULL, DANIELS, ELLIS, HUGHES, LEGATE, MYERS, SCOGGINS, VOSE
Daisy's Roots Yvonne James-Henderson's line.
Wright Family.
Boyds, Clarks
Hutchinson and Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson Circus
CORY, CHAFFIN listed under CONVERSE and ROBISON
CHAPPELL/CHAPPLE, DOYLE
Freiman Genealogy ALBERT, BOPP, DOUGHERTY, FREEMAN, KAPPEL, PLUMMER, MACKER, WIELAND
KALAL (KALLAL).
Jerseyville High School 1949 Student album, includes an index.
WESTFALL genealogy Westfall, Kraushaar. Click on My Childhood Memories for life in Jersey Co. 1940s - 1950s.
DUNHAM family, Jerseyville, Illinois. GRAVES, GIBSON, PARKER, BEEMAN.
WHITFIELD family. John Whitfield who lived in Grafton, IL and Quarry, IL.
CHENEY, D'ARCY, PLOWMAN families.
ASH family.