Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia, Union County, Illinois
• FamilySearch
  • Church Records - Illinois, Diocese of Belleville, Catholic Parish Records, 1729-1956, Union County, has record images for Anna and Cobden
  • Naturalization Records - Illinois County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998, has record images for Union County
• Find-A-Grave
• Internet Archive
  • 1876 Atlas of the State of Illinois
  • 1883 History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski Counties, Illinois
  • 1894 Historical & Descriptive Review of Illinois, 230 pages
  • 1912 A History of Southern Illinois Volume 1,  Volume 2,  Volume 3
  • 1941 History of Union County, Illinois by Lulu Leonard
  • 1946 A History of The First Presbyterian Church of Anna, Illinois
  • 1954 100 Years of Progress: The Centennial History of Anna, Illinois
  • Illinois at Vicksburg
• Illinois State Archives
• Illinois Secretary of State Databases
• A good explanation of the system for mapping township sections is offered in the "Determining Location" topic located near the bottom of Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales.
• Land Patents - The original sale of land by the federal government is recorded in a land patent. This could be a available aid to locating your early settler ancestors. You might find a land patent for an ancestor by searching at The Bureau of Land Management. The site also allows you to view an image of the document, which will tell you where (county and state) the purchaser lived at the time of the purchase.
• U.S. Surveyor General's Records for Illinois -- Federal Township Plats
• The Library of Congress has some Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps available for Anna, Cobden, and Jonesboro
• Historic Mapworks' 1908 Standard Atlas of Union County Illinois, including Plat Book
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
• Chronicling America
• ObitCity
• Obituaries and Death Notices in the Jonesboro Gazette
• Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Many of those buried in Fairmont Cemetery were from Union County, Illinois. Burial listings are also available for New Lorimier Cemetery and Old Lorimier Cemetery.
• HonorStates Military Gold Stars, those who died while in service during WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam
• Illinois State Genealogical Society's Illinois State Cemetery Project
• Union County IL Historical and Genealogy Society and Museum
• Genealogical Society of Southern Illinois has a pdf available of a fantastic map of Union county
• Shawnee Community College Library
• Digital Public Library of America
• Illinois Society Sons of the American Revolution (ILSSAR)
• Cherokee Trail of Tears in Union County and 231-page pdf
• Free and American: A Study of Eleven Families of Color by Darrel Dexter - includes chapters about Arthur & Patience Hawley Allen, Joseph Allen, Johnson Allen, Beverly Brown, Thomas & Dicey Chavis, Thomas & Betsy Gipson Bass, Nancy Hockens Bryant, Joseph & Elizabeth Ivey, Cain & Elizabeth Bracken, and Moses Hunter; families of Alexander, Bond, Franklin, Gallatin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Union, White, and Williamson counties.
• The Ancestor Hunt
• Past Queries
• Facebook group: You know you are from Anna-Jonesboro...
• Facebook group: William Turner Decendants of and Bethania of Union County IL
• USGS GNIS (Geographic Names Information System)

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