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Welcome to DeKalb County
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This website is maintained by Sheri Baker, DKGenWebSheri@AOL.com
"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness."
President Barack Hussein Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009
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| Historical DeKalb County Books Online | |||
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History of DeKalb County by Henry Lamson Boies |
Past and Present of DeKalb County Vol I by Professor Lewis M. Gross |
The Biographical Record of DeKalb County Illinois by S. J. Clarke Publishing Company |
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| DeKalb Centennial 1856-1956 |
Voters and Taxpayers of DeKalb County 1876 |
From Oxen to Jets | |
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Cemetery Information Pinpoint Any DeKalb County Cemetery Search Many Cemeteries On-Line See Notice At Bottom Of This Page |
Census Information 1840 Census 1850, 1860, 1880 Mortality Schedules 1855 and 1856 State Census Info Provided by FamilySearch.org 1940 Census Link Available April 2, 2011 |
Circuit Clerk Documents Provided by FamilySearch.org Wills, Probate, Executor, Court, Guardianship Records and more. Hint: Page # in indexes refer to the page number of the sheet within the ledger, not the image number on FamilySearch. | |
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Birth, Marriage,
Death and Naturalization
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DeKalb County Life
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DeKalb County
Timeline of Events
1837 - 1998 | |
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Historical Societies,
Museums and Research Centers |
Important
DeKalb County Documents |
Deaths and Stillbirths
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Discussion Forum |
Fall 2012 Joiner Room Journal Now Online |
Sycamore True Republican | |
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Libraries |
Local Family Trees |
Lookups | |
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Military Resources |
Maps |
Naturalization Records | |
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Newspapers |
Obituaries |
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Organizations |
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Places |
Query Board |
Taming the Wild
Prairie | |
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Wills Available online at FamilySearch.org. | ||
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Winnebago/Boone County Birth,
Death and Marriage Indexes Winnebago and Boone counties are DeKalb's northern neighbors. These databases available online from the Cherry Valley Library may contain names of DeKalb County citizens. These are large databases and take extra time to load. |
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Winnebago Please check the USGenWeb for additional information to our neighbor counties. Link to these archives is below under Federal & Nationwide Information | |
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State of Illinois Archives Genealogical Records: Land, Probate, Military, Census, etc. |
Illinois State Genealogical Society Non-certified copies of 1916-1947 death certificates, Military Service Certificates | ||
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Federal & Nationwide Information |
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Bureau
of Land Management Land Patents 1820-1908 |
Genealogy Trails A website established by volunteers dedicated to free genealogy. |
 Although not connected with the federal government, this site can be searched for nationwide information. | |
Helpful Research Information
From Our Site
Users
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1880 Census Searches on Ancestry. COM This tip comes from Martin Johnson who wrote, " The 1880 census county search box will not find counties such as DeKalb and McHenry, etc. You have to put a space in between E and K in DeKalb (De Kalb) and C and H for McHenry (Mc Henry) , otherwise it won't find anything. The other Ancestry census indexes use DeKalb and McHenry without spaces." |
| Elgin Asylum Death Records by Martin Johnson |
| View and Share Vintage Photos: The website explains, "by creating a free account on Shorpy (www.Shorpy.com) you can share your own vintage photographs. Visitors to the site are particularly interested in images from the dawn of photography to the 1940s. Best of all, becoming a member is free!" |
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