Genealogy

The Pinckneyville Public Library has uploaded the following documents to archive.org:
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Genealogy of Illinois Counties

Plat Books
1853 Perry County, Illinois Plat Book

1902 Standard Atlas of Perry County, Illinois (links to zoomed in copies of each Township and City in description!!!!!)

1920 Perry County Plat Book

1952 Perry County Plat Book

1974 Perry County, Illinois: Atlas & Plat Book

1976 Perry County, Illinois: Atlas & Plat Book

1979 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas and Plat Book

1987 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas and Plat Book

1989 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas & Plat Book

1993 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas & Plat Book

2002 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas and Plat Book

Cemetery Listings
IOOF Cemetery with Genealogy; Du Quoin Illinois

Mueller Hill Cemetery: One Mile West of Pinckneyville

History of Mueller Hill Cemetery (1859 — 1989)

Old Du Quoin Cemetery and McElvain Cemetery

Bethel Cemetery, Swanwick,IL

Tamaroa Cemetery as of 1992 

Pinckneyville City Cemetery (formerly I.O.O.F.)

Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery Du Quoin, Illinois as of 2000

Paradise Cemetery, Tamaroa, Illinois as of 1983 

Perry and Randolph County Mortality Schedules 1850 and 1860

Perry County Cemeteries, Volume One 

Perry County Cemeteries, Volume Two

Perry County Cemeteries, Volume 3

Perry County Cemeteries, Volume 4

Sacred Heart and McElvain Cemeteries plus Sacred Heart Baptisms, 1868 thru 1900

St. Bruno’s Cemetery / St. Bruno’s Death Book thru 1935 / St. Bruno Baptisms thru 1900

Galum Presbyterian Cemetery 

Galum Presbyterian Church (1844 – 1934) (Includes Cemetery Information)

Able Cemetery

Perry County Cemeteries: Hopewell, Miller, Galum Baptist, Byerley, Lacey, Galum Presbyterian, Tangen, Blanchard, Huggins, Spring Hill, Gerstenschlager

Oak Grove Cemetery Records

Galum Baptist Church Cemetery (Tombstone Inscriptions)

The Old Concord Cemetery

Elile Luthy Farm Cemetery

Nine Mile Baptist Church Cemetery

Old Du Quoin Cemetery (West Prairie Cemetery)

Beaucoup / Cemetery of Hutchings Family / Liberation of Negro Slaves by Pandy Hutchings

Perry County Cemeteries: Cross or Brown Cemetery, Concord Cemetery, Old Concord, Bardmoss Cemetery, Chapman Cemetery, County Farm Cemetery, Haggard Cemetery, Friendship Church of Christ, Greenbriar Cemetery, Old House Cemetery, Old Keene Cemetery, Lipe Cemetery Baptist, Nine Mile Cemetery, Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Untefer Cemetery, Tangen Cemetery, Blanchard Cemetery, Vancil Cemetery, Byerley Cemetery, Unterfer Cemetery, Galum Presbyterian Cemetery

Cottom Cemetery (also known as the Crow burial ground)

Census Records
Perry County, Illinois Marriages 1827-1850 with Genealogical Notes

Perry County Marriage Licenses Book Number One (January 17, 1827 to February 25, 1850)

Perry County Illinois Marriage Records 1868 – 1896 (A Few Through 1903)

1830 Perry County, Illinois Federal Census

1840 Perry County Census / 1830 Perry County Census / 1892 Militia Census / 1850 Agricultural Census / 1835-1850 “Entry Book’ Names

Perry County, Illinois 1850 Census

1850 Perry County, Illinois Agricultural Census

Perry County, Illinois 1860 U.S. Census

Illinois State Census Perry County 1865 Plus Soldiers of Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Civil War

1870 Perry County, Illinois Census

1880 Perry County, Illinois Census

1890 Perry County Real Estate Tax List

1900 Perry County, Illinois Census

Sacred Heart Marriages 1869-1930

Family History

Perry County Family History (1988)

Perry County Family History (1998)

Du Quoin, Illinois: A Family History by Kathryn Pope Olsen

Epplin Family History by Mark P. Urbanek

Epplin / Eisenhauer / Ernst / Horschmann Family History

George Robb–Catherine Forsythe and Descendants (1807 – 1982)

Ruppert, Shape, and Giacomo Family Trees Traced

The Schneider Family in Pictures by Marry Ann Mann and Donna Vuichard

Descendants of John George Cowley through Seven Generations

Richard Guy x Sirena Bell Family Genealogy

400 Years of Our Family History: The Jones Genealogy from Jamestown to the Present by Harry and Norma Bray Olson

Memories: A Family History by Zelma Dempsay Jones

The George Marlow Descendants of Perry County Illinois by Jack and Vicky Jones

Kellermann History by Elmer Kellerman

Descendants of Bartholomaus Kellermann

Descendants of George Balth. NP Eisenhauer

Valentin Family of St. Clair, Perry, and Jackson Counties by Robert L. Downen

Wheatley Family Notes by Gary Hiller

Englehardt History

1880 Pioneer Families WP Justice, Wm North, & Joe Craig As Told By Bethia Jane Justice Graham

The Franklin and Carrye Reidelberger Family History (1875 – 2003)

Stern Family of Alsace Lorraine, France and Perry County and Washington County, Illinois

The Descendants of Joseph Todd and Ann Shannon (also Corr Family)

Logan Family Tree

The Hincke Family / Pauline Hincke / Harmon Edward Hincke

Obituaries

Miscellaneous Local Obituaries (List of Names in Archive Description)

Other

Perry County Illinois Courthouse Entry Book 1834 – 1850

County Commissioners Book A Perry County, Illinois (April 29, 1855 to January 15, 1862)

Letters of the Roe, Jones, and Dobyns Families (contains Roe, Jones, Dobyns family history)

Du Quoin Phone Book (1909)

Telephone Directory: Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Cutler, Tamaroa, Swanwick (1915)

Probate Papers of James W.T. Ritchie, M.D. [A Doctor in Perry County, Illinois until ~1874]

List of Pensioners of the Roll for Monroe County and Perry County (1883)

Perry County, Illinois Records of Indenture (1834) by Genevieve Rainey

Oldest Marked Graves and Earliest Recorded Deaths in Perry County, IL

Early Settlers of the Old DuQuoin Area by Mamie Reheis

Some Records From Perry County Clerk’s Office

Some Delayed Perry Co. IL Birth Certificates beginning March A.D. 1867

Death Cards in the hands of Rex Franklin (includes burials in Pinckneyville IOOF, Catholic, and Hopewell Cemeteries. Also includes Veteran Listings up to WWII for each cemetery. And Freemason burials)

Funeral Cards – A

Funeral Cards – B

Funeral Cards – C

Funeral Cards – D

Funeral Cards – E

Funeral Cards – F

Funeral Cards – G

Funeral Cards – H

Funeral Cards – I

Funeral Cards – J

Funeral Cards – K

Funeral Cards – L

Funeral Cards – M

Funeral Cards – Mc

Funeral Cards – N

Funeral Cards – O

Funeral Cards – P

Funeral Cards – Q

Funeral Cards – R

Funeral Cards – S

Funeral Cards – T

Funeral Cards – U

Funeral Cards – V

Funeral Cards – W

Funeral Cards – Y

Funeral Cards – Z

Links to Perry County IL USGenWeb Archives (www.usgwarchives.net)

Perry County Cemetery Record Archive

Perry County Birth Record Archive

Perry County Census Record Archive

Perry County Death Record Archive

Perry County Marriage Record Archive

Perry County Military Archive

Perry County Obituaries Archive 


We also have available in library:

Microfilm

The Tamaroa Times Aug 1895 – Apr 1936 (missing Aug 1911 – Dec 1911)
The Tamaroa Bugle Dec 1894 – May 1895
The Pinckneyville Advocate Dec 1897 – Jun 1934 (missing the year of 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907)
The Perry County Advocate Jul 1934 – Dec 1956
The Perry County Monitor and Sun Jan 1887 – Dec 1887

Publications

1902 & 1920 Perry County Plat Book
Portrait and Biographical Record of Randolph, Jackson, Perry and Monroe Counties, IL (1894)
Perry County Honor Roll Illinois Veterans’ Commission 1956
Bethel Cemetery, Swanwick Illinois
Perry County Cemetery Records
Perry County Census (1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900)
Perry County Marriages (1827 – 1850, 1868 -1896)
Combined History of Randolph, Monroe, Perry Counties Illinois (1883)
1853 Perry County Plat Book
History of Perry County Vol. 1 (1988)
History of Perry County Vol. 2 (1998)
The Pinckneyville Democrat 1982 – present