DuPage County, Illinois Genealogy

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Parent County

 * 1839--Du Page County was created 9 February 1839 from Cook County. County seat: Wheaton

Neighboring Counties

 * Cook
 * Kane
 * Kendall
 * Will

African American
The following have information concerning African American research.


 * African American Research (US) has more information about the kinds of records


 * Illinois State Archives pamphlet on African American Research describes what records are at the State Archives with an online method for ordering records.
 * African American Resources for Illinois

Cemeteries
The DuPage County Genealogical Society (DPGS) has on-line indexes to cemeteries in the following townships:


 * Addison Township
 * Downers Grove and Lisle Township
 * York Township

More than a hundred DuPage county cemeteries have listings on findagrave.com.

County Clerk
The DuPage County Genealogical Society has published an Index to the Naturalization Records of DuPage County. The index covers 6,000 individuals, and includes the full name, date, locality, country of birth; and the date and port of entry into the United States (where available).

Local Histories
The History of DuPage County by the Board of Supervisors of DuPage County and C.W. Richmond Knickerbocker and Hodder, Publishers, Aurora, Illinois, 1877

The History of DuPage County by Rufus Blanchard O.L. Baskin and Co., Chicago, 1882

The Stoddard Project
The Stoddard Project is an ambitious attempt to inventory and index genealogical and historical resources in all the DuPage County repositories initiatied by John Stoddard, for whom it is named. The two-part project includes a listing of reference works and the individual libraries that house them, plus an index of individuals named in those reference works. The project incorporates histories of the county and of individual towns, high school yearbooks, histories of individual churches, maps and plats, old city directories and telephone books, holdings of back issues of local newspapers, etc.

For more information about the Stoddard Project, see the DuPage County Genealogical Society web site.

Military
The DuPage County Genealogica Society (DCGS) provides a listing of all men from DuPage County who served in World War I. DCGS has also compiled an inventory of books and periodicals relating to the Naper Post 468 of the G.A.R.

Newspapers
The DuPage County Genealogical Society has created abstracts from 1896-1908 from the Hinsdale Doings, a newspaper published in Hinsdale, Illinois. The index includes mentions of births, marriages, deaths, and other local news like family visits.

Vital Records
Illinois Death Certificates 1916-1950

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index Includes DuPage 1839 - 1906

DuPage County Marriage Index 20 June 1839 - 28 November 1861 Originally transcribed by the DAR from Record Book A in the DuPage County Clerk's office, and later compiled for publication by the DuPage County Genealogical Society.

Societies and Libraries
DuPage County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 3 Wheaton, IL 60187-0003

DuPage County Historical Society P.O. Box 1460 Wheaton, IL 60189

Warrenville Historical Society 3S530 2nd St Warrenville, IL 60555-3134 (630) 393-4215

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * DuPage County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

