DuPage County, Illinois Genealogy

United States Illinois  DuPage County

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
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 DuPage County and links to the information for the individuals buried there.


 * DuPage 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 of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.


 * ePodunk list of DuPage 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.

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

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

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).

Education

 * Benedictine College University Yearbooks - available from the 1930s - 1980s; digitized and freely avaiable at the Internet Archive

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

 * Civil War Civil War service men from DuPage 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 DuPage County.


 * - 55th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Company E.

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

 * Aurora Daily Express - over 5,000 full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1882-1901
 * Aurora Daily Star - over 800 full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1921-1932
 * 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
 * Du Page County, Illinois Obituary and Death Notices Collection Free from GenealogyBuff.com. From various funeral homes in the Lombard, York, Naperville, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Bartlett, Elmhurst, Villa Park and surrounding area.

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.
 * DuPage County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * DuPage County, Illinois Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

