Genealogical Materials

Boone County Birth Certificate & Death Certificate Indexes

All copies of vital records listed here are available on microfilm at the library. Please contact us for more information.

Local History Room Files

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To check out the Local History & Genealogy page

To search Local History books and research materials in the Ida Public Library catalog.

Books

Maps

Map Index– index of Boone County, Belvidere, and Illinois maps and atlases in the Local History & Genealogy collection
1856 Belvidere map
1870 Belvidere map
1876 Belvidere map
1886 Belvidere: South Side map
1886 Boone County map

Obituary Index

Newspaper Obituary Index, Belvidere IL, 1851-2018

Available Yearbooks

Due to copyright regulations, only yearbooks from 1912 to 1926 are available online. However, the library has yearbooks from 1926-current years available for use in the library. An ID will need to be provided at the circulation desk when requesting a yearbook and the yearbooks may not leave the library. Please call the library or email Local History for more information.

1912 Belvidere High School
1913 Belvidere High School
1914 Belvidere High School
1915 Belvidere High School
1916 Belvidere High School
1917 Belvidere High School
1918 Belvidere High School
1919 Belvidere High School
1919 Community High School (Capronite)
1920 Belvidere High School
1921 Belvidere High School
1922 Belvidere High School
1923 Belvidere High School
1924 Belvidere High School
1925 Belvidere High School
1926 Belvidere High School

Many more resources are available, so please contact us for more information.