What's New
2022 Feb 01 - Ford County ILGenWeb made Available for Adoption
2021 Dec 07 - Thanks to Marilynn Rapper, added Lexington GHS Library to Resources
2021 Aug 11 - Thanks to Dennis Partridge, fixed issue with Search feature
2021 Mar 22 - Thanks to Pam Reitsch, added 1895 Rand McNally Atlas map
2021 Feb 26 - Added a few Resource links
2021 Feb 22 - Added names of 1892 Record of Ford County biographies
2020 Dec 02 - Added Resource link to Illinois Secretary of State Databases
2020 Jul 31 - Added 12 biographies from 1892 Record of Ford County
2020 Mar 28 - Added 18 more biographies from 1892 Record of Ford County
2020 Feb 27 - Thanks to Tom Barkema, added 1894 class photo from Stringtown School
2020 Jan 30 - Thanks to Dave Pointer, added Resource link to new
ILFORD query board and mailing list
2019 Dec 19 - Thanks to M. Hougland, added NIERSTHEIMER to the Surname list
2019 Oct 25 - Added extraction and Resource link to Pioneer Days Illinois History
2019 Aug 22 - Added more 1892 biographies
2019 May 13 - Added biography of Carlisle Pool
2019 Apr 28 - Thanks to Patrick Tavenner, added Swan Lundberg obituaries
2019 Feb 04 - Added extraction and Resource link to History of the Disciples of
Christ in Illinois
2018 Dec 02 - Added World War II Honor Roll
2018 Dec 01 - Thanks to Gwen Seely, added her PIERSON query
2018 Nov 04 - Added a dozen more 1892 biographies
2018 Sep 29 - Added 1908 History of Ford County Button Township extraction
2018 Aug 30 - Added 1908 History of Ford County Drummer Township extraction
2018 Jun 08 - Thanks to Melissa McCord, added links to Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps
2018 Jun 06 - Added more extractions from 1908
2018 Apr 07 - Thanks to Tim Stowell, added Galbraith's railway map
2018 Feb 15 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Korean War Fatal Casualites list
2018 Feb 12 - Thanks to Ann Mensch, added Vietnam War Fatal Casualties list
2018 Feb 04 - Added a few newspaper tidbits from Ford County Journal
2017 Dec 14 - Started adding 1892 biographies
2017 Dec 11 - Thanks to ILGenWeb, added Mexican-American War link
2017 Jul 27 - Added list of Businesses from 1917 Prairie Farmer's Directory
2017 Jun 30 - Added list of Officials from 1917 Prairie Farmer's Directory
2017 May 01 - Thanks to Margaret Hougland, added Nierstheimer and Rudolph
query
2017 Apr 18 - Added Ayersman and Herr descendants charts
2017 Feb 21 - Added a few births
2017 Jan 28 - Added extractions from History of the Swedes of Illinois
2016 Dec 23 - Added Rememberances of a Pioneer link to Resources and
added Farmer's Directory extractions
2016 Dec 09 - Thanks to Cynthia Jameson, added two Drummer Twp Cemetery
burials
2016 Nov 13 - Added 1883 Pensioners
2016 Oct 26 - Added Civil War, Spanish-American War soldier, and WWII
enlistment lists, plus related extractions from 1908 History
2016 Oct 19 - Added 1908 History's volume 1 biographies
2016 Oct 17 - Added rest of 1908 History's volume 2 biographies
2016 Oct 16 - Added some biographies from volume 2 of 1908 History
2016 Oct 14 - Added some extractions from 1908 History of Ford County
2016 Oct 12 - Added 1918 History of Paxton and 1969 History of Piper
extractions
2016 Oct 11 - Added 1929 Honor Roll, Soldiers' & Sailors' Home Residents,
Deaths 1916-1950, and Marriages
2016 Oct 10 - New Look courtesy of Marsha Bryant of Templates in Time
2016 Sep 30 - New County Coordinator, Norma Hass