Rock Island County, Illinois Genealogy

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County Courthouse
All birth, marriage, and death records are kept in a controlled room. Records are normally transcribed by a clerk off the original document onto a standardized county form. Review of the original document for accuracy is NOT allowed. There is a charge for record searches, regardless of finding anything.

They do have a limited cross-referenced computer access to some marriage indexes and death indexes.

Parent County

 * 1831--Rock Island County was created 9 February 1831 from Jo Daviess County. County seat: Rock Island

Neighboring Counties

 * Clinton County, Iowa
 * Henry
 * Mercer
 * Muscatine County, Iowa
 * Scott County, Iowa
 * Whiteside

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
Illinois cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation.


 * Find A Grave can be searched by the name of a person or family to find where a person is buried. Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.  May give obituaries, names of family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.


 * Find A Grave also gives a list of cemeteries in Rock Island County and links to the information for the individuals buried there.


 * Rock Island Co. IL USGenWeb Tombstone Project usually gives the names of the deceased in alphabetical order by last name with birth and death dates plus any remarks.


 * Illinois Cemeteries by county.


 * The Family History Library Catalog lists some records of cemeteries in Rock Island County. Some of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.


 * ePodunk list of Rock Island County cemeteries gives the names of the cemeteries in the county with a link to more information such as address, phone number, and web site.

Societies and Libraries
Rock Island County Historical Society – Research Library and Museum is located at 822 11th Ave. Moline, IL 61265-1221. Phone: 309-764-8590 for hours of operation as they are open (in 2010) 9 -4 on Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat. They have a very good research library containing almost all the local newspapers both in bound volumes and some on microfilm. They also have a large selection of books and surname index cards cross referenced to newspaper articles. Many filing cabinets contain local genealogies, histories, government records, military records, historical documents, church records, etc.

Web Sites

 * Family History Library Catalog
 * Rock Island County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)