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Ford County
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The Ford-Iroquois-Kankakee County Mailing List

• Ford County Queries
  Who is researching your names in Ford County? Check here for Surnames and Queries.
• Ford County Researchers new 9/21/2004
• OBITUARIES
  Related to Ford, Iroquois and Kankakee County Families indexing and merging of data in process 10/14/2004
• Ford County Lookups
  For additional help - volunteers willing to do lookups.
• Miscellaneous articles new 9/21/2004

• Swedish Researcher
  

  A society in Sweden is tracking families which came to America.

• Just a Note
  

  A Small World Story - Melvin, Illinois

• 1830 Vermilion County Census
  

  Scanned and online complete with index. Ford County was still a part of Vermilion County in 1830.

• 1875 Tract Map
  

  Ford County Township Map. One of the entire county and smaller section maps that load faster. There are also links to the Illinois Public Domain Land Sales and the BLM Land Patent Grants.

• Ford County Place Names NEW MAP
  

  Some information about the place names for this county.

• Civil War Maps
  

  A link to some maps dealing with the Civil War.

• Read more about the

  History of Ford County in material contributed by a member of the Historical Society.

• Ford County in the Civil War
  

  Part of The Illinois Civil War Project

• Old flier from
  Kreitzer's store in Elliott
  

  From the Photo Album at the The Iroquois County Genealogical Society

• County Poor House, Paxton IL
  

  from The Poorhouse Lady

Illinois Trails - Ford County has links to cemetery transcriptions for most of the above cemeteries.

• Ford County Government
  

  David Youck's Ford County site Includes History, Cities, Libraries, Newspapers and a complete list of your county, township, and local officials.

• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763 - 1900
  

  A Great Place to Look!

• The ILGenWeb Ultimate List of Links
  

  Where do you want to go (In Illinois) Today?

• Gene Stark's Index of Names
  

  for all USGenWeb Sites

• Swenson Swedish Immigration Center
  

  This site is maintained by Augustana College, which made its home in Paxton from 1863-1875.

• The American West

  Maintains a page of information and links for other sites helpful to those researching families which emigrated.

• Fraudulant Published Genealogies
• Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of Each Illinois County

  Covers all 102 Illinois Counties

• Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA

  A guide for genealogists and other researchers

• Online Searchable Illinois Naturalization Indexes

  Worth checking out

• Ford County Historical Society

• Illinois Trails - Ford County
  

  Lots of new and exciting informaion on Ford County - Lots of new Cemetery Information as well.

• Partial Index to Obituaries

Most of these obituaries are hosted by Illinois Trails. As time permits, hotlinks to the actual data will be provided.

• 1930 Census Pauper House transcription NEW
• Foster Family
  Links to Lyman Township, Ford County along with information about the FOSTER family.
• Ruedger Family
  

Bits of information for Lyman Township, Ford County.

• Ford County Addresses
  

  Address of the Vital Records Office

• Ford County Files in the ILGenWeb Archives
  

  Some birth, obituary, and marriage records.

• US Resources: Illinois ~~ RootsWeb
• Vital Records In Illinois
  

  From the ILGenWeb List of Links.

• Foreign Language Document Translator
  

  Alta Vista's on-line translation site deserves a visit from anyone with a foreign-language document in hand. It isn't fool-proof, but it's a big help.

• Genealogical Events
  

  The USGenWeb Project covering Conferences, Seminars, Fairs, etc.

• The Fort - Lexington, Illinois

With a page dedicated to Ford County history materials.