Resources
- 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois
- 1904 Rememberances of a Pioneer by Jane Cade Patton
- 1908 History of Ford County Illinois Volume 1, Volume 2
- 1915 History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois by Nathaniel S. Haynes, 670 pages
- 1917 Prairie Farmer's Directory of Ford County, Illinois
- 1918 Early History of Paxton, Illinois
- 1940 Pioneer Days in Illinois
- 1959 Centurama
- 1969 Wagons to Wings: A History of Piper City
- History of the Swedes in Illinois, Volume 1, Volume 2
- History of the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry compiled by Virgil Gilman Way
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Gail Hahn Hutchcraft is willing to do
lookups -
1. Gibson City - Drummer Township Cemeteries
2. Gibson City High School Yearbooks - 1920 through 1970's - Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections – Ford County Journal
- Chronicling America
- ObitCity
- USGenWeb Archives – Ford County, Illinois
- Illinois Secretary of State Databases
- ILGenWeb Resources for Illinois Genealogy Research
- The Library of Congress has some Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps available for Gibson City, Paxton, and Sibley
- Wikipedia, Ford County, Illinois
- Lexington Genealogical and Historical Society has an impressive collection of Ford County, including cemetery records, family histories, surname files, county history books, plat books, and newspapers.
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Vital Records Office
200 West State Street
Paxton, IL 60957
(217) 379-2721 - The Ancestor Hunt
- Genealogy Trails
- ILFORD Query Board and Mailing List at groups.io
- Message Board at Rootsweb
- Message Board at GenForum
- Digital Public Library of America
- USGS GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
- Surnames / Researchers
- Deciphering Old Hand Writing
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