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Coles County, IL
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This county is adoptable.
See this webpage for more information if you are interested.

Our thanks to Linda Lang for her many, many years of dedication to Coles County genealogy and ILGenWeb as a project.

For corrections, suggestions, etc. contact ILGenWeb State Coordinator.


Coles County Courthouse website
651 Jackson Avenue
Charleston, IL - Illinois 61920
217-348-0538

Coles County was organized on December 25, 1830 out of Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826.

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Illinois State Archives Online Databases

  • IL State Archives Online Databases

    Includes the following records:
     
    Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre–1916 An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1972) An index created by the Illinois Department of Public Health Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 Records in the Illinois State Archives
    Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records
    Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database
    Physicians Database
    Databases of Illinois Veterans
    1929 Illinois Roll of Honor
    Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans
    Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
    Illinois Civil War Veterans of Missouri Units
    Illinois Civil War Veterans Serving in the U.S. Navy
    Illinois Mexican War Veterans
    Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Residents
    Illinois Spanish–American War Veterans
    Illinois Veterans' History Project
    Illinois War of 1812 Veterans
    Illinois Winnebago War Veterans
  • Miscellaneous Resources

  • Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes for the USA
  • Illinois Newspaper Project
  • Newspapers.com (not free)
  • Newspaper Archives (not free)
  • Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
  • Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records and Indexes
  • Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes and Records (USA)
  • Finding U.S. Naturalization Records - a Genealogy Guide
  • Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records
  • WorldGenWeb
  • IL GenWeb Special Project-History
  • Outfitters Illinois History Page(does not include Coles County)
  • Tombstone Project - IL
  • African American Griots
  • Family Group Sheets
  • USGenWeb Archives Special Projects


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