Resources
The Society collection currently contains over four-hundred volumes. Additionally in the collection are microfilm of County Census 1820 to 1930, county newspapers from 1858 to 2010 and Genealogical Quarterlies from the region and state societies. The resource focus is on Bond County with support materials for genealogical research. The growing collection is the result of gifts, contributions, purchases and the continuing research and documentation effort of a number of diligent member genealogists. We are proud and grateful for the work of the member genealogists.
Many BCGS publications can be viewed for research at the Greenville Public Library during its regular business hours. Click here to find out more about the Genealogy Room at the Greenville Public Library.
Many BCGS publications can also be purchased by using the Society's Resource Order Form.
The Resource list below is a representation of those publications available in the Genealogy Room at the Greenville Public Library. A more detailed list is available in a booklet in the Genealogy Room.
Bond County
John Nowlin's Records and Traditions, Books one through forty-one, Four volumes. Interesting and informative collection of the author's newspaper articles from the 1920's to 1957, containing county life, history, events, early settlements, cemeteries and emphasis on history of early county families
Cemeteries and Burial grounds compilations, fourteen volumes by the Bond County Historical Society, and the Bond County Genealogical Society
Census of Bond County 1830 to 1930, ten volumes
Marriages, Bond and Madison County 1817 to 1850, one volume
Bond County Marriages 1850 to 1915
Bond County church histories and records, thirteen volumes
Bond County and Communities histories including biographic records, seventeen volumes
Bond County Genealogical Quarterlies 1985 to Present
Bond County Census 1820 to 1930, microfilm
Bond County Newspapers
Greenville Advocate Centennial Edition 1815 to 1890, with Centennial Edition 1815 to 1915
Greenville Advocate 1858 to 2010, on microfilm (some issues missing)
Sun 1879 to 1909, on microfilm
Bond County Farmer 1929 to 1931, on microfilm
Pocahontas Press 1903 - 1905, on microfilm
Sorento News 1945 - 2001, on microfilm
Early newspapers from the Illinois State Library, on microfilm
Bond County Court Records
Public Domain land tract records of Bond County
Bond County Probate Records Index
Bond County Birth Index
Bond County Circuit Court Records and Proceedings
Bond County Genealogical Society Membership Ancestor Charts, two volumes
Bond County Atlas and Plat Books 1875 to present
Family Histories, over seventy-five volumes, families with Bond County linkage
Newspaper Obituaries, and Burial Information 1858 to 2002, approximately thirty volumes (years incomplete between 1921-1977)
Anniversaries and Weddings, May 26, 1976 to 2004, twenty-nine volumes
County Veterans Information
Grave Registry of Revolutionary War Soldiers through World War II, five volumes
Supporting Veteran Resources
Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index, Volume I through III, Supplement Index and Lineage Books
Daughters of 1812 Ancestor Index
Adjutant General's Reports (Illinois), Volume one through nine, 1861 to 1866
Roster of Officers and enlisted men, Mexican Border
Roll of Honor, Deceased men and women volume II
Illinois soldiers in the Black Hawk war 1831 to 1832 and Mexican War 1846 to 1848
History of 33rd Division, two volumes
Illinois in World War and War Time Organizations
Illinois in World War Documents
Index to War Service and Pension Records
Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension File, four volumes
Index to War of 1812 pension files, two volumes
Index to Volunteer Soldiers in Indian Wars and Disturbances 1815 to 1858, two volumes
Index to old war pension files, 1815 to 1926
Index to Mexican War pension files
Index to Indian War Pension files, 1892 to 1926
Note: Veterans ancestry service in state militia will not be found in the National Archives unless there was a pension application.
Other Materials
Neighboring and Regional County Histories and Records including Counties of Fayette, Madison, Montgomery, Clinton, Effingham, St. Clair, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Piatt, Jefferson, Wayne, Pope, Alexander, Pulaski and Union, fifty-nine volumes.
State Histories and Genealogical research materials, including Census information 1810 to 1840, 1850 mortality schedules, bounty lands of Illinois War of 1812, Archives Description, Guides to Research, Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties, twenty volumes
Regional and State Genealogical Quarterlies
Abraham Lincoln, sixteen volumes
U.S. Land Records, Three volumes
Other State Genealogical Materials
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Nebraska, Colorado, forty-four volumes
General Source materials including guides to genealogical research, Genealogical Helper directories, Hereditary registers, Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals and lists, Colonial Daughters of the seventeenth century, seventeenth century colonial ancestry, ancestral heads of New England families, genealogies, fifty volumes
Many BCGS publications can also be purchased by using the Society's Resource Order Form.