Ford County
ILGenWeb Project

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• Ford County Queries
  Who is researching your names in Ford County? Check here for Surnames and Queries.
• Current Queries - Message Boards
• Archived 2001 Queries
• Archived 2000 Queries
• Archived 1999 Queries
• Archived 1998 Queries
• Ford County Researchers
• OBITUARIES
  Related to Ford, Iroquois and Kankakee County Families
• Ford County Lookups
  For additional help - volunteers willing to do lookups.
• Miscellaneous articles

• Swedish Researcher
  

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

• 1830 Vermilion County Census
  

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

• Ford County Place Names
  

  Some information about the place names for this county.

• View complete 1875 Tract Map of Ford County

  Source: "Atlas of Henry Co. Illinois to Which is Added an Atlas of the United States," Warner & Beers Publishers, Chicago, 1875. Submitted by Alice Gless

• Map Legend
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• 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.

• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763 - 1900
  

  A Great Place to Look!

• 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

• Ford County Historical Society

• 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

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
• 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.