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11: Search Records
12: Get Help
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Goal 12: Get help with your Illinois research.
Choices
AUse Facebook pages to get answers to your questions.
- Visit the Illinois Genealogy Network page on Facebook.
- Visit the Illinois Genealogy page on Facebook.
- Visit the U.S. Midwest Genealogy Research page on Facebook.
- See the Genealogy on Facebook list of Facebook groups dedicated to helping with research for Illinois.
- Explore Illinois research questions in the
Genealogy Stack Exchange.
BJoin a mailing list or message board for Illinois research.
- Join the RootsChat forum and post questions about Illinois research.
- Explore the Illinois research mailing lists on Cyndi's List.
- Use the Ancestry message boards to read or post questions about Illinois research.
- Get personalized help from a research volunteer at the Family History Library.
- Request scans or indexes from catalog records available at the Family History Library.
CLearn about Illinois genealogy societies.
- Learn about genealogy societies in Illinois in this FamilySearch Wiki article.
FS—Wiki: Illinois Societies - Explore the Illinois State Genealogical Society site.
- Explore the Chicago Genealogical Society site.
- Explore Illinois genealogy society sites on Cyndi's List.
- Get help at a FamilySearch center in Illinois.
Regional/Local Societies
Exercises
- * Proficient: Make a list of Facebook groups, mailing lists, and genealogy societies of interest, and then join or subscribe to them.
Illinois Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; T=GenealogyTrails; U = USGenWeb
Get a printable map of counties.
Get an interactive map of counties.
Illinois Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; T=GenealogyTrails; U = USGenWeb
Get a printable map of counties.
Get an interactive map of counties.