Bond County, Illinois Genealogy

United States Illinois  Bond County

County Organization
Bond County is divided into 9 townships: Shoal Creek, LaGrange, Mulberry Grove, Old Ripley, Central, Pleasant Mound, Burgess, Mills, and Tamalco. It's civil records start the following years:

County Courthouse
County records are most often kept at the County Courthouse or another local repository. For further information about where the records for Bond County are kept, see the Bond County Courthouse page.

Historical Facts
Bond County is named for the first Governor of the State of Illinois.

Parent County
4 January 1817: -- Bond County was created from Madison County.

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Bond County boundary changes.

Bibles
Family Bibles of the Herndon and Howell families of Bond County are included in an Ancestry database ($). The database also includes Howell tombstone inscriptions and a will.

Cemeteries

 * 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 Bond County and links to the information for the individuals buried there.


 * Bond 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 at familysearch.org contails several records for cemeteries in Bond County. Some are transcriptions for individual cemeteries, others contain multiple cemeteries.
 * WorldCat lists a good number of cemetery sources for Bond County cemeteries. Check this source to see if a library near you has a helpful cemetery records.

Census
For tips on accessing census records online, see Illinois Census.

1840 Pensioners

 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. Washington, D.C., 1841. ; ; digital version at Google Books. [See Illinois, Bond County on page 186.]

Court Records
IRAD Holdings


 * Justice of the Peace Dockets 1858 to 1961

Family History Library holdings


 * This record includes court records, guardianships, loose papers, and various probate related records. Many records in in these series were eith missing or not filmed.

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

Land and Property
BLM GLO Records. Search original land patents for Bond County from the Govenment Land Office (GLO) or Eastern States Office. Some searches include images of the original warrants. All search results include the patant details needed for requesting copies of the land entry files at the National Archives. The GLO is the custodian of millions of land title documents. The General Land Office Automated Records Project is responsible for making these important documents available to the public.

Land records that include Bond County at Ancestry.com $:


 * "Illinois Public Land Purchase Records" This record extract includes over 538,000 land sales from the 19th Century. Each entry includes the purchaser's name, purchase date, number of acres, price per acre, and in some cases the purchaser's sex and residence.
 * "U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796 to 1907:" Records of Illinois are among the 13 states included in this set. It includes images of the land patents which contain the information necessary for ordering the complete case files from the National Archives. This appears to be the same information that is online at the Federal Land Office site http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.
 * Sheldon, Theodore. Land registration in Illinois. Chicago: Callaghan &amp; Co., 1901. Digital book. Expains the laws regarding land and the land systems used in Illinois. Includes court cases involving land issues. In addition to being on Ancestry, this book is available online at no cost at Internet Archives and Google Books.

FHL land records


 * Bond County (Illinois). Recorder. Deed records, 1817-1921.
 * Family maps of Bond County, Illinois : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more, by Gregory A. Boyd. (Norman, Oklahoma : Arphax Pub. Co., c2007) This book identifies the early land owners of Bond County, placing them on township maps with other geographic and manmade landmarks.

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from Bond County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Bond County.


 * - 35th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Company H.

Probate Records
Online abstracts from of Record Books A to 1, 1821 to 1838. Includes appraisals, administrations, wills, guardianships, land sales, and other records associated with probate matters. Transcribed by Donna Walton in 2007.

IRAD Holdings


 * Probate Minutes 1877 to 1855
 * Probate Records 1837 to 1849

Family History Library holdings


 * Bond County (Illinois) County Court. Probate records 1817 to 1940  This record includes court records, guardianships, administrators' bonds, loose papers, and various probate-related records. Many records in these series were either missing or not filmed. Not all types of records cover all years. Many volumes include an index.

Guardianships
The Family History Library has films of some guardianshipp records among the the probate records listed above with the probate records.

Some guardianships are listed in the Online Abstracts described under probate records.

County Courthouse
Bond County Courthouse 200 W. College Avenue Greenville, Illinois 62246

County records are most often kept at the County Courthouse or another local repository. For further information about where the records for Adams County are kept, see the Bond County Courthouse page.

Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD)
IRAD Depository LIB 144 University of Illinois at Springfield One University Plaza, MS BRK 140 Springfield IL 62703-5407 Telephone: (217) 206-6520

Public Libraries
Greenville Public Library 414 W. Main Ave. Greenville, IL 62246 Phone 618-664-3115 Fax 618-664-9442

Hours

Monday - Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Wednesday - Thursday 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sunday CLOSED

The Greenville Public Library is a member of the Lewis &amp; Clark Library system comprised of 150 members including public libraries, schools and colleges covering 8 counties. The LCLS provides technical support and inter-library loan services.

The Greenville Public Library has a Genealogy Room run by the Bond County Genealogy Society. The room contains information from Bond and surrounding counties, which includes histories, censuses, old newspapers, genealogies, vital records and more. In the room is equipment for viewing and copying the records that are on microfilm and microfiche. The holdings of the genealogy room are not contained in the library's catalog.

Societies

 * Bond County Historical Society The society supports the Hoiles-Davis Museum located at 318 W. Winter St. in Greenville, Illinois. It was organized in 1955 and specializes in questions about the history of the county and its communities but not on genealogy matters. Museum Hours: Mid April to the end of October Saturdays: 1pm to 3pm / Sundays: 2pm to 4pm or on special occasions.
 * Bond County Genealogical Society has a room on the lower level of the Greenville Public Library that houses its holdings. Their collection has over 400 print volumes; microfilms of censuses, county newpapers 1858 to 1997, and military records; and genealogical quarterlies from the region and state societies.

Vital Records
Bond County (Illinois) County Court. Births, marriages, and deaths 1817-1927.

Births
IRAD Holdings


 * Birth Records 1877 to 1915
 * Birth Records Index 1863 to 1915
 * Delayed Birth Records Index 1863 to 1915

Marriages
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 - An online searchable index, is an ongoing project of the Illinois State Archives and the Illinois State Genealogical Society The Bond County index includes 1817-1915.

IRAD Holdings


 * Marriage License Application 1891 to1916
 * Marriage Licenses 1817 to 1915
 * Mariage Records 1817 to 1915
 * Marriage Record Index 1817-1915

Available through Ancestry.com:


 * Bond county marriages in "Illinois Marriages 1790 to 1860"
 * Bond County marriages in "Illinois Marriages to 1850"
 * Bond County marriages in "Illinois Marriages 1851 to 1900"

FamilySearch. Extracts of Bond County marriages without images are available on FamilySearch among the "Illinois County Marriages, 1810 to1934"

FHL records


 * Bond County (Illinois) County Clerk. Marriage licenses 1817-1872
 * Bond County (Illinois) County lCerk. Bond County marriage licenses (adult and minor) &amp; related material, 1873-1875, 1877-1886, 1890-1915.
 * Bond County, Illinois marriage records, 1817-1850, compiled by Robert E. and Phyllis J. Shelby. Kokamo, (Indiana: Shelby Pub., 1982).
 * Bond County, Illinois marriage records, 1851-1877, compiled by Evelyne McCracken. (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, c1984 ).
 * Bond County, Illinois marriage records, 1878-1899, compiled by Evelyne McCracken. (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, c1985 ).
 * Bond County, Illinois marriage records, 1894-1915, compiled by Evelyne McCracken. (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, c1985 ).

Deaths
Index of Illinois Death Certificates, 1916–1950 listings the death certificates filed with the Illinois Department of Public Health

IRAD Holdings


 * Death Records 1878 to 1915
 * Death Records Index 1878 to 1915

Websites

 * Bond County ILGenWeb (The USGenWeb Project). May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Bond County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Bond County Fact Sheet (Illinois State Archives)