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Free Genealogy Sites

http://castlegarden.org./   CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.  Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

http://www.rootsweb.com/  The primary purpose and function of RootsWeb.com is to connect people so that they can help each other and share genealogical research. Most resources on RootsWeb.com are designed to facilitate such connections.   "But where do I begin?" That question is often asked by new users when faced with all the options available at RootsWeb.com. The best ways for you to connect to others on RootsWeb.com are to make it easy for others to find you, ask for help, and give others help. This page will give you a brief overview of the many resources available at RootsWeb.com; and areas where you will want to contribute as your own research progresses.

http://usgenweb.org/  Welcome to The USGenWeb Project!  We are a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.  This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.

Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties.  The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all those pages, as well.

http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html
Records in the Illinois State Archives

Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database

Database of Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records

Databases of Illinois Veterans

Database of Illinois War of 1812 Veterans

Database of Illinois Winnebago War Veterans

Database of Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans

Database of Illinois Mexican War Veterans

Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database

Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans Serving in the U.S. Navy

Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans of Missouri Units

Database of Illinois Spanish–American War Veterans

Database of the 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor

Database of Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Residents

Illinois Statewide Vital Records Databases       

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives & the Illinois State Genealogical Society

 

Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre–1916
An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives

 

Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1950)
An index created by the Illinois Department of Public Health
 

http://www.findagrave.com/  See the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world.  Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.

http://www.interment.net/  A free online library of burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world, for historical and genealogy research.

http://auroracemeteries.com/  This web site is intended to be an aid to genealogist, historians, and anyone else interested in gathering information about, and the final resting place for individuals of interest that were residents of Northern Illinois (centered on Aurora), former residents of the same, or others whose obituary appeared in the Aurora Beacon News newspaper. Information obtained from the Aurora Beacon News obituaries includes whatever cemetery is listed near Aurora, a town in which interred if not within the vicinity of Aurora IL, or if a town is listed in parenthesis it indicates the residence/location of the individual at time of death.

This information has been consolidated from three sources but is not all-inclusive. The three sources are: (1) Cemetery databases (Spring Lake 1865-present; Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery 1900-present; Calvary Cemetery; and Riverside Cemetery through December 2003), (2) selective interments from various cemetery listings online at www.interment.net and www.usgenweb.com and (3) obituary information from the online version of the Aurora Beacon News since June 2001. This site will be updated periodically with additional, new obituary data.