Contact: Jan Doan
jdoan40@hotmail.com
(Type Genealogy into the subject line for email response.)
Newspapers
Olney 1858; Scattered issues until 1872
Sumner Press 1882--1963
St. Marie Tribune 1901 -- 1918
Noble County Commoner 1885 -- 1999
Census
Federal Census Returns 1820 -- 1930
for counties of
Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash
& Wayne
(Federal
Census microfilm rolls usually have three counties per roll, so many
other counties are available.)
IGI
1992 IGI
for the United States
1988 IGI for rest of world except South American and Mexico
CDs
400 Family Tree Maker
CDs
Illinois State Historical Society
Books
A collection of approximately 2500 books is housed in the Anderson Library at Olney Central College. The collection is owned by the Genealogy Society and is not cataloged. Use is limited to onsite visits during library hours of operation. Examples include:
- Family History for families in this region
- Census Indices through 1850 for most states east of the Mississippi River
- New England books, including a complete collection of the Barbour Indexes from Connecticut
- Mayflower recored
- Complete collection of Hinshaw's Quaker Records
- Complete collection of PERSI
The society has purchased all books that are available for a nine-county region of southeastern Illinois. (Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash & Wayne)
Collection of Richland County Information:
- Family files
- Funeral records
- Scrapbooks
- Cemeteries
- City and County Directories
Newspaper
Obituary Collection
1980 - present
- Newton Press Mentor
- Mount Carmel Daily Republican Register
- Olney Daily Mail
- Sumner
Press
Other obituaries from the area dating back to the 1920's are also available.