Online Resources
Bond County Genealogical Society has compiled, curated, and organized a list of online sites with a resource focus on Bond County with support materials for genealogical research.
Bond County & Beyond
Bond County Genealogical Society has compiled a list of online research sites organized by Family and Community Records; Veterans Records; Forums, Maps, Blogs, and Databases; Military, Historic, and Lineage Organizations; and Online Books and Media that include Bond County and Greenville, Illinois history and historical figures.
Links provided to external websites are provided as convenience and informational purposes only; they do not constitute endorsement or approval of any products, services, or opinions given on external site.
If you have a resource that’s not listed here, please feel free to send us the link. We will vet it and then add it to the list.
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- Bond County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, request Vital Records or Land Records
- City of Greenville Vital Records, Submit requests for certified copies of birth and death certificates (non genealogical purposes)
- Illinois Dept. of Public Health, The IDPH will issue uncertified copies of birth certificates & death certificates, for genealogical purposes only.
- USGenWeb Census Project for Bond County, Illinois (1820 - 1860) - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Illinois State Archives - IRAD Bond County Fact Sheet
- Montrose & Lansing Cemeteries Online Index/Maps, hosted on City of Greenville Website
- Robinson Cemetery dot com
- USGenWeb Archives Illinois - Bond County Cemetery Records
- ISGS Cemetery Location Project
- Illinois Ancestors Tombstone Project - Bond County Cemeteries
- The Tombstone Transcription Project - Illinois - Bond County Cemeteries
- Carson Collection of Funeral Notice Cards, hosted on Bond County IL GenWeb
- Bond County, Illinois Obituaries from NewspaperObituaries.com
- Bond County IL GenWeb
- FamilySearch Wiki Resources for Bond County
- Cyndi’s List Genealogy Resources for Bond County
- Illinois Genealogy Trails Resources for Bond County
- Linkpendium Genealogy Resources for Bond County
- Illinois Coal & Coal Mining: History & Genealogy (Bond County info page)
- Bond County Historical Society
- Greenville Public Library
- Greenville University Library
- City of Greenville, Illinois
- Bond County, Illinois
- Genealogy / Local History @ Louis Latzer Memorial Public Library in Highland (Madison Co, IL), Digital Local Newspapers, Yearbooks, Church books, City documents
- The National Road Association of Illinois
- In and Around Panama and Sorento, Illinois, a website by Dale Eccles, preserved @ Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
- Montgomery County Genealogical Society
- Historical Society of Montgomery County - Harkey House
- Montgomery County ILGenWeb
- Montgomery County Historical Society, a website by Jeff Dunn, vice-president of MCHS
- Clinton County Historical Society on Facebook
- Clinton County, IL Genealogy on Facebook
- The Clinton Co ILGenWeb Project
- Fayette County Genealogical & Historical Society
- Madison County Genealogical Society
- Madison County Historical Society
- Illinois Genealogy & Family History Records @ Ancestry.com
- Illinois Digital Archives
- Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916–1950
- Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1951–1971, NEW in 2023!
- Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
- Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System
- Illinois Historic Cemetery Preservation
- Land Sales In Illinois
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- Asylum Projects - Illinois, a site dedicated to the history of asylums in all forms: mental hospitals, sanatoriums, state training schools, reform schools, poor farms, almshouses, and orphanages.
- Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records
- Discover Freedmen, this site searches all of the Freedmen’s Bureau record collections on FamilySearch
- African-American Resources for Illinois on FamilySearch Wiki
- Illinois Adoption Laws, a resource on how to obtain birth certificates and related information whether you are an adopted person, birth parents, or family members.
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library And Museum Genealogical Resources
- Newberry Library, Chicago’s Independent Research Library
- Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois (GSSI)
- Illinois State Genealogical Society
- Illinois State Historical Society
- Ancestry.com
- U.S. Federal Census Collection @ Ancestry.com (1790-1940)
- National Archives and Records Administration, The National Archives houses census records from 1790 – 1924; military records from the Revolutionary War to World War I; military pension records; passport applications back to 1795; ship passenger lists; naturalizations; and more...
- Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress
- Rootsweb.com, Rootsweb is sponsored by Ancestry.com and remains the oldest free genealogy website on the Internet.
- Allen County Library Genealogy Center
- FamilySearch.org Research Wiki, from the largest genealogy organization in the world and a service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Chronicling America
- Ellis Island Passenger Search
- Find A Grave
- MyGenealogist.com
- The Illinois Civil War Project @ IL GenWeb
- The Illinois Veterans’ History Project @ Illinois State Archives
- Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database @ Illinois State Archives
- Ancestry.com Civil War Records
- Ancestry.com All Military Collections
- Illinois Military Records on FamilySearch Wiki
- National Parks Service - Soldiers and Sailors Database
- Bond County, IL - Family History & Genealogy Message Board @ Ancestry.com
- Bond County, IL Genealogy Forum @ Genealogy.com
- Adopted.com (formerly CousinConnect)
- Amy Johnson Crow: Modern Genealogy Made Easy
- Genealogy Tip Of The Day with Michael John Neill
- Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
- The Ancestor Hunt
- Plat book, 1927, Bond County, Illinois
- Farm plat book and business guide, 1949, Bond County, Illinois
- 1937-1947 Illinois Historical Aerial Photography from ISGS
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials = Maps, including plat books.
- Illinois Historical Maps and Atlases, including plat books, on Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™
- Illinois Historical Topographic Maps from USGS in Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Greenville surveyed in 1939 (also includes Mulberry Grove, Smithboro, Stubblefield, Wisetown, Woburn) - marked are schools, churches, cemeteries, creeks, roads, etc.
- USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer - Click on a location to see its historical maps; Compare maps using the transparency sliders.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - Illinois
- Archaic Medical Terms - If you are having trouble determining what your relative died from, you might want to consult this list to see if a definition of the medical terminology is given.
- Genl George Rogers Clark Chapters - Sons of the American Revolution Illinois Society [Bond, Madison, Jersey, Macoupin, Greene, Calhoun, and Montgomery counties]
- Ewington Chapter - Sons of the American Revolution Illinois Society [Bond and Fayette, etc Illinois]
- Illinois Society Sons of the American Revolution
- Benjamin Mills Chapter - National Society Daughters of the American Revolution [Greenville, Illinois - Bond County]
- The DAR Genealogical Research System
- Kaskaskia Chapter - The National Society United States Daughters of 1812 - Illinois Society
- Illinois Society War of 1812
- Hill’s Fort Society - Greenville, Illinois
- Researching a member of the IOOF, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
- The Online Books Page, Browsing subject area: Bond County (Ill.) -- History
- Tales, Trails & Breadcrumbs, 1838-1938, One-Hundred Years, Bond County, Illinois (1993). by Kathryn Eleanor Wilson [Pennington]. Published by Naco Printing, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Historical stories: about Greenville and Bond County, IL by Allan H. Keith. Written in 2000. Published 2002. Reprints of the author’s newspaper articles that have appeared in The Greenville Advocate.
- Historical souvenir of Greenville, Illinois : being a brief review of the city from the time of its founding to date (1905) Compiled and edited by Will C. Carson.
- History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois (1882) by William Henry Perrin
- A History of Southern Illinois, three volumes (1912) by George Washington Smith. Includes indexed biographies of prominent citizens
- Historical Illinois, Bond county, Biographical (1915) by Newton Bateman. Editor: Warren E. McCaslin.
- Portrait and biographical record of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois (1892) by Chapman Publishing Company.
- Peck’s New gazetteer of Illinois - A gazetteer of Illinois : in three parts, containing a general view of the state, a general view of each county, and a particular description of each town, settlement, stream, prairie, bottom, bluff, etc., alphabetically arranged (1837) by John Mason Peck. Published by Grigg & Elliot in Philadelphia.
- Veterans buried in Bond County, Il. : information taken from Illinois honor roll, cemetery readings and obituaries, 1814-1994 (1995). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- The Story of early Pocahontas & Sugg Cemetery (1988). by Sugg Cemetery Board of Trustees. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- The Story of Old Mt. Nebo and the families buried there (1990). by Gerald Eugene Jenner. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Mt. Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church & Cemetery history, 1819-1993 (1993). by Gerald Eugene Jenner. Published Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- 120 Years of Donnellson Presbyterian Church History 1819-1939. by Olive F Kaune. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Bethel Cemetery (1992). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Brown Cemetery (1992). by Sally Leidner. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Cemeteries in Burgess Township: Burgess aka Ethridge/Wilds & Britt, Hug, St. Nicholas, Tobias File (1993). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Duncan Cemetery (1992). by Harold and Sally Leidner. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Greene Cemetery (1992). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Hug, St. Nicholas, Tobias File Cemeteries (1992). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Liberty Cemetery (1992). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Many journeys : a history of the people buried in Maxey, Seagraves, Hall’s Grove and Durham Cemeteries (1991). by Harold Leidner. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Cemeteries in Mills Township: Hill’s Fort, O’Bryne, Hunter, Dewey (1993). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Montrose Mausoleum (1993). by Steve Neer and Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Cemeteries in Mulberry Grove Township: Durr (AKA Little), Neathery, Etcheson, Rhea, Messinger, Rawson (1993). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Noffsinger and German Cemeteries (1992). by Beutonne McKean. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Robinson Cemetery (1993). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Union Grove Cemetery (1992). by Nelda Neer Anthony. Published by Bond County Genealogical Society, Greenville, Illinois. (free FamilySearch.org account required)
- Muskets and medicine: or, Army life in the sixties (1917) by Charles Beneulyn Johnson. Published by F. A. Davis in Philadelphia. The author served in the 130th and 77th Illinois infantry regiments, part of the time as hospital steward.
- Still Abides the Memory (1942), by Mary Alice Tenney, Published by Greenville College.
- History and reminiscenses of Col. John B. Reid and family (1903) by Franklin Thomas Reid. Published in Springfield, Ill.
- Illinois, the story of the prairie state (c1917) by Grace Humphrey.
- A tour guide to the prehistory and native cultures of Southwestern Illinois and the Greater St. Louis Area (1993) by Timothy R. Pauketat. Published by Illinois Humanities Council and Illinois Historic Preservation Agency in Springfield, IL.
- G. Harry Agnew, a Pioneer Missionary (1904) by Wilson Thomas Hogue (Founder of Greenville College). Published by Free Methodist Pub. House.
- Revivals and revival work (1890) by Wilson Thomas Hogue. Published in Buffalo, NY.
- Hymns that are immortal, with some account of their authorship, origin, history and influence (1907) by Wilson Thomas Hogue. Published by S.K.J. Chesbro, Agent in Chicago, Ill.
- Illinois Pioneer Days (1918) by Elbert Waller. Published by E. B. Lewis in Litchfield, Ill.
- A woman’s story of pioneer Illinois (1919) by Christiana Holmes Tillson; edited by Milo Milton Quaife. With two portraits. Published by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in Chicago.
- The pupil and how to teach him (1910, revised 1926) by Eldon Grant Burritt (President of Greenville College). Published by Light and Life Press in Chicago, IL.
- The pupil and how to teach him (1910) by Eldon Grant Burritt. Published by W. B. Rose in Chicago.
- Complete history of southern Illinois’ gang war, the true story of southern Illinois gang warfare (1927) by E. Bishop Hill. Published by Hill Pub. Co., in Harrisburg, Ill. Some featured gang members (Art Newman and Charlie Birger) were involved in a bank robbery in Bond County and there was a related trial at the Bond County courthouse.
- BOOTLEGGING IN ILLINOIS: bathtub gin and the whole shootin’match by Nancy Nixon. APRIL 2001 ILLINOIS COUNTRY LIVING Cover Story, page 10-13. Published by Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives www.aiec.org. The article discusses the Charlie Birger gang which (though not explicitly described in this article) was involved in some criminal activities and legal reprecussions within Bond County.
- Photo-Essay of The Thomas House, or Thomas Hotel, in Greenville, Illinois
- Video Song “Ruben You Can Play Your Banjo” - Mark Dvorak from Chicago’s Old Town School, drove out of his way to let us record one of his favorite songs. "Ruben" was written by Missourian, Ron Morris A.K.A. Bartholomew Bean. The setting is historic Ripson Bridge in central Bond County, IL.
- Video Song “Presbyterian Guitar” - Swamp Weiss playing the John Hartford guitar piece. That’s my old classical guitar. Swamp had never played it before. We used a wrinkled blue sheet for a blue screen. The guitar is actually resting on my dining room table. Swamp had never played that particular guitar before in his life. No rehearsal. The prairiescape is south of southern Bond County Illinois from whence Swamp hales.
- Slideshow “Life On A Midwestern Farm 1890 - 1910” - Robert Whiteside’s 10 minute documentary derived from a lost box of 75 antique dry plate 4 x 5 inch photo negatives purchased at an Illinois antique store. Soundtrack by Swamp Weiss.
