Bureau County Genealogical Society

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Other Records

  • Soldiers & Sailors Monument - Princeton IL
    Soldiers & Sailors Monument across from the Bureau County Courthouse in Princeton IL.

    Family Histories

    • Almost 400 family histories have been donated to our collection.
  • Military
    • Bureau Co. Men in the Civil War from Bureau Co., IL Newspapers, 1861-1865, Jacquelyn Gee Glavinick (1988)
    • Honor Roll, Bureau Co., State of IL Veteran’s Commission (1956, names of veterans buried in Bureau Co. cemeteries prior to July 1, 1955, incomplete)
    • Walnut Veterans, Nancy Ohda (2003) (information on veterans from the War of 1812 to Viet Nam)
  • Directories
    • 1858 (county-wide)
    • 1876-77 (Princeton)
    • 1888 (Spring Valley)
    • 1897-98 (county-wide)
    • Newer ones
  • Bureau County Farm/Poor House – now indexed
    • Abstracted records from 1858-1959, includes death and other information
  • Public Domain Land Records (information on early land records, land granted by the government)
    • Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales or The Official Federal Land Records Site
  • Selected Information on Swedes & Germans
    • The Swedes in IL, Historical Sketches, Eric Johnson and C.F. Peterson (1880)
    • Mendota Area German Pioneer Families, Arthur L. Ladenburger (2003) Excellent source for northeastern Bureau Co.
    • Palatine Emigrants From Edenkoben, (Rheinland Pfalz) Germany to North America, 1833-1906, Dr. Alfred Hans Kuby (1989, recommended for Hollowayville, IL research)
    • Edenkoben [Germany] Family Names in Hollowayville, IL, Dr. Alfred Hans Kuby (1977) This book gives information about the German ancestors of the early settlers of Hollowayville.

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Open other times by appointment.

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