Boone County & Beyond

Only Accessible while at Ida Public Library

• Ancestry.com
• HeritageQuest
• Newspapers.com

Boone County and Illinois Genealogy Sites

• Family Search
• Illinois Digital Archives
• Illinois State Archives- Databases
• Illinois State Genealogical Society
• U.S. GenWeb Archives: Illinois
• Winnebago and Boone Counties Genealogical Society

Cemetery Research

• Findagrave.com
• Interment.net

General Genealogy Sites

• Cyndi’s List
• Genealogy Trails
• National Archives and Records Administration
• RootsWeb
• U.S. GenWeb Archives
• Background Checks Genealogy Resource Guide
• Researching Family History from Ship’s Passenger Lists

Immigration Records

• Ellis Island Records Search
• National Archives Immigration Records

International Genealogical Research

Africa: AfriGeneas | Freedmen’s Bureau Online
Canada: Canadian Genealogy Centre
Denmark: Danish Demographic Database
Eastern Europe: Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies
Germany: Cyndi’s List: Germany
Great Britain and Ireland: GENUKI
Ireland: National Archives of Ireland
Jewish Research: Jewishgen
Norway: DigitalArkivet
Sweden: Swedish Roots   l  Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
Mexico/Spain/South America: Directorio de Genealogia Hispana | FamilySearch: Mexican Research

Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management

Military Records

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Index
• Illinois Civil War Muster Rolls
• Military Research at the National Archives & Records Administration
• National Archives- Access To Archival Databases- Military Records