Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to this Union County ILGenWeb site.
2024 Mar 10 - Fixed broken and redirected links
2023 May 26 - Norma Hass resigned as Co-Coordinator
2022 Oct 18 - Fixed broken and redirected links
2022 Oct 17 - Thanks to Bob Sullivan, added HonorStates.org Resource link
2022 Jul 31 - Added 1876 Atlas extractions (map, county history, 15 biographies, 3 views,
12 portraits, business directory, patrons list) and Resource link
2022 Mar 24 - Thanks to Templates-in-Time, Union County ILGenWeb has a new look
2022 Mar 15 - Added some births from FamilySeach.org
2022 Feb 01 - Prepared to move site off Genealogy Village (removed form & host info)
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 Jul 26 - Added 12 more biographies from 1883 History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski Counties
2021 Mar 22 - Thanks to Pam Reitsch, added 1895 Rand McNally Atlas map
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links
2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource link to Illinois Secretary of State Databases
2020 Nov 07 - Added WESTON descendants chart
2020 Aug 14 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added more marriage and death records
2020 Aug 11 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added more marriage and death certificates
2020 Jun 10 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added 2013 Trail of Tears pdf
2020 Apr 26 - Added 16 more biographies from 1883 History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski Counties
2020 Feb 28 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added Robert DAVIS marriage certificate
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new
ILUNION query board and mailing list
2019 Nov 30 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, added Resource link to Free and American by Darrel Dexter
2019 Oct 25 - Added extraction and Resource link for Stories from Illinois History
2019 Aug 30 - Added more biographies from 1883 History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski Counties
2019 May 29 - Thanks to
Frank Wilkie, added his EASLEY query and a descendants chart
2019 Apr 26 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added Tobias CARAKER article
2019 Apr 26 - Added Union County focused Facebook group links to Resources
2019 Feb 14 - Added 1820 census
2019 Feb 12 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added more to CARAKER family collection
and added Resource link to Illinois at Vicksburg
2019 Jan 25 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added more to her CARAKER collection
2019 Jan 20 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added much regarding CARAKER / CARRIKER
/ KARRAKER
2019 Jan 19 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added Caraker Cemetery listing
2019 Jan 19 - Thanks to Tammy Jetton, added resource links to Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, cemeteries where many Union County, Illinois, ancestors
migrated
2018 Nov 13 - Added 25 biographies from 1912 History of Southern Illinois volume 3
2018 Nov 02 - Added resource link to naturalization records at
FamilySearch.org
2018 Sep 28 - Added resource link to church records
2018 Jul 30 - Added Early Land Sales
2018 Jun 25 - Thanks to Robin, added Aden GILES query
2018 Jun 08 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added links to Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps
2018 May 10 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added census record for May Bell
NELSON query
2018 Apr 16 - Thanks to Kenneth Kelley, added May Bell NELSON query
2018 Apr 07 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
2018 Mar 28 - Added links to a GSSI map of Union County
2018 Feb 27 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added A Creek Runs Through It
2018 Feb 21 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added Anna City Cemetery photos, plat
maps, newspaper articles, PARKER land deed, and KNUPP family census
records
2018 Feb 15 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Korean War Fatal Casualties listing
2018 Feb 12 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Vietnam War Fatal Casualties listing
2018 Jan 16 - Added remaining biographies from 1912 History of Southern
Illinois, Volume 2
2017 Dec 22 - Added Revolutionary War Veterans burials in Union County
2017 Dec 11 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added Mexican-American War link
2017 Dec 01 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added Resource link to Historical
Society
2017 Sep 30 - Added divorces
2017 Sep 18 - Welcome co-coordinator Melissa McCord !
2017 Sep 11 - Added 1941 History of Union County extractions
2017 Jul 13 - Thanks to Jeff Blaha's interest, added SHADOWEN ancestor chart,
death certificate, obituary, and funeral prayer card. Also added
William WESTON's death certificate
2017 Jun 30 - Added some 1912 biographies from A History of Southern Illinois,
volume 2
2017 May 20 - Added GSSI and SCC resource links
2017 Apr 10 - Added extraction from A History of Southern Illinois
2017 Apr 02 - Added some 1883 biographies
2017 Mar 18 - Added family group sheets and a descendants chart
2017 Jan 25 - Added Servitude & Emancipation list
2016 Dec 14 - Added 1893 Larkin TOLER biography
2016 Dec 03 - Added 1916-1950 deaths
2016 Dec 02 - Added 1877-1915 deaths
2016 Dec 01 - New Look courtesy of Marsha Bryant of Templates in Time
Added Black Hawk War enlistments, Soldiers & Sailors' Home residents,
1850 Mortality, a few maps, list of places, resources, and marriages
2016 Nov 30 - New County Coordinator - Norma Hass
| Jackson | Williamson | |
| MO |
 |
Johnson |
| Alexander | Pulaski |
