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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)
- 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.