KANKAKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY COLLECTION

1 KANKAKEE . PUBLIC . LIBRARY . GENEALOGY . COLLECTION . Revised May 2013. 1. Table of Contents Section 1: Microfilm COLLECTION .. 3. Section 2: Military/War Records .. 4. Section 3: Family Genealogies ..10. Section 4: Compendiums ..24. Section 5: Cemetery Records.. 27. Section 6: Census Records ..33. Section 7: Passenger & Immigration .. 44. Section 8: Illinois Section KANKAKEE County .. 50. Iroquois and Will Counties.. 56. Chicago and Cook County..58. All Other Illinois Counties..61. General Illinois History ..71. Section 9: Atlases and Plat Books..86. Section 10: Ethnic Materials ..89. Section 11: State Records (Other than Illinois).. 104. Section 12: Yearbooks.. 121. Section 13: Miscellaneous.. 123. Section 14: Will and Probate ..127. Section 15: Church Records.

2 129. Section 16: Blank Section 17: Heraldry..133. Section 18: Periodicals & Quarterlies.. 135. Section 19: Newspaper Sources.. 136. Section 20: How To.. 138. Section 21: ..141. Section 22: City Directories.. 143. Revised May 2013. 2. SECTION 1: MICROFILM COLLECTION . The following items are available on microfilm at the LIBRARY . NEWSPAPERS. KANKAKEE Daily Journal (and predecessors): 1854 to present (before 1870, issues are sporadic). Bourbonnais Herald: February 1982 December 1999. Chebanse Herald: January 1869 September 1959. Chicago Tribune: 1990 -- 2000. Herscher Pilot: December 1917 September 1920; Februry 1982 December 1991. Momence Progress Reporter: Februry 1874 December 1886; December 1917 December 1969. St. Anne record : October 1905 December 1970.

3 Pembroke Herald Eagle: 1963 1979 (miscellaneous issues). FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS FOR STATE OF ILLINOIS. 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, & 1920. To request an obituary look-up, go to the KANKAKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY Web Site ( ). We can search for an obituary only if you are able to provide at least the month and year of death. An exact date of death will greatly speed up the process. Please, no more than 3. names per request. The LIBRARY does not charge for this service but requests a donation to help cover the cost of staff time and equipment. Send a check payable to KANKAKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY at 201 East Merchant Street, KANKAKEE , IL 60901. Revised May 2013. 3. SECTION 2: MILITARY/WAR RECORDS. Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor Bertram Hawthorne Groene.

4 Gro John F. Blair, Publ., 1973. The Genealogist's Address Book Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Genealogical Ben Publishing Co., Inc. 1992. Pension List of 1818: Letter From the Secretary of War Transmitting a Report Let of the Names, Rank, and Line, of Every Person, Place on the Pension List, in Pursuance of the Act of 18th March, 1818 January 20, 1820. Southern Book Co., 1955. Revolutionary Pensioners: An Alphabetical Abstract of the Pension List of 1813. Rev W. F Hulse, 1955. 355 Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army Francis B. Heitman Hei Genealogical Pulishing Co., 1973. 355 How to Locate Anyone who is or has been in the Military Lt. Col. Richard S. Joh Johnson. MIE Publishing, 1991. Roll of Honor: Numbers I-VI Quartermaster Alpha Index to Places of Rol Interment of Deceased Union Soldiers 1868 Reprint 1994 Genealogical Publishing Co.

5 , Inc. The 129th Infantry in World War II Regimental Staff. Infantry Journal Press, One 1947. Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Rol Interred in the National Cemeteries Washington Government Printing Office 1868 Reprint Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Mem Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 1901. 929 Virginia Military Records: From the Virginiana Magazine of History and Vir Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly with Index by Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Genealogical Publ. Co., 1983. (2 Copies). The Roll of Battle Abbey Annotated. Burke, John Bernard. Churton, 1848. Bur Reprinted 1966. ( 2 Copies ). Census of Pensioners For Revolutionary or Military Services; With Their Cen Names, Ages, and Places of Residence.

6 Blair & Rives Publ. 1841. Revised May 2013. 4. Indiana War of 1812 Soldiers Militia Franklin, Charles. Ye Olde GENEALOGY Fra Shoppe, 1984. General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Gen Soldiers National Archives microform index 2 COPIES. Military Genealogical Sources. Heisey, John H. Heritage House, 1986. Hei Hessische Truppen In Americanischen. Marburg Archives, 1972. 5 Volumes. Hes Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Admissions of Mexican, Civil and Spanish- Ill American War Veterans 1898-1908, Volume II. McDowell Publications, 1980. Index of Revolutionary War Pensions Applications in the National Archives. Ind Revised and Enlarged. National Genealogical Society, 1980. Virginia Revolutionary Militia. Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe.

7 Lis List of 1773 Names of Hessian Soldiers Sent to the During the Lis Revolutionary War. Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe. Military Service Records. National Archives. Mil Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives. Nat Bicentennial Edition. Rev. and Enlarged. National Genealogical Society, 1976. Confederate Research Sources; A Guide to Archive Collections. Nea Neagles, James C. Ancestry, 1986. Summer Soldier: A Survey and Index of Revolutionary War Courts-Martial Nea Neagles, James C.; Ancestry, Inc., 1986. Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Who Enlisted From the State Neb of Indiana. Nebraska State Genalogical Society, 1985. Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Who Enlisted From the State of Ohio Neb Nebraska State Genealogical Society, 1984.

8 Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Who Enlisted From the State of Neb Pennsylvania. Nebraska State Genealogical Society, 1985. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Off Rebellion. Government Printing Office, 1912. Revised May 2013. 5. Patriotic Roster of Livingston County, Illinois. Compiled and Published by Pat Parsons, 1989. Patriotic Roster of LaSalle County, Illinois. Compiled and Published by Pat Parsons, 1989. Report of Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Commission, 1914. Wm. Stanley Rep Ray, 1914. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Rev National Archives Pamphlet. Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois. Sol Illinois State Genealogical Society. 1976. Supplement to the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, March 1943.

9 Sup Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Records. Oaths of Allegiance to the United States of America. Walmaier, Nellie P. Wal Privately printed, 1944. An Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers, Wol 1784-1811. Wolfe, Barbara. Ye Olde Genealogical Shoppe, 1986. 2 Volumes. Vol. 1: Surnames A-E. Vol. 2: Surnames F-L. Dubros Times: Selected Depositions of Maine Revolutionary War Veterans. Dub Maine State Archives. Augusta, Maine. 1975. Rhode Island Military Census, 1777. Transcribed by Mildred Chamberlain, Rho Genealogical Publication Co., 1985. Connecticut Revolutionary Pensioners. Compiled by the Connecticut Daughters Con of the American Revolution- Baltimoree. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982. Colonial Soldiers of the South: 1732-1774.

10 Clark, Murtle June. Index by Judith Cla McGhan. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. Maryland Revolutionary Records. Newman, Harry Wright. GENEALOGY New Publishing Co., 1980. West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors. Compiled by Anne Walker Reddy. Red Genealogical Publishing Co. Virginiana's Colonial Soldiers. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Genealogical Boc Publishing Co., 1988. Revised May 2013. 6. Virginia Soldiers in the United States Army: 1800-1815. Stuart Lee Butler. But Iberian Publishing Co., Athens, Georgia. 1986. Virginia Revolutionary War State Pensions. Virginia Genealogical Society. Vir Southern Historical Press, 1982. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Mos Moss, Bobby Gilmer. Genealogical Publ. Co., 1983. ( 2 Copies ). South Carolina Soldiers and Indian Traders, 1725-1730.