Try Out the Illinois State Archives Online Search Engine

Joan Griffis wrote an interesting column this week for the News-Gazette. Most of it deals with using the Illinois State Archives. She starts her column by pointing out that anyone can search for an ancestor across the entire Archives website by just putting a name into the search engine. Joan then goes on to write about other Ilinois online sources.

Check out her column.
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The global Illinois State Archives search utility is found at: http://www.ilsos.gov/isa/globalsrch.jsp.

I did a search for the Gfeller surname with the results seen in the illustration to the right. Clicking on the links, I was led to the Marriage and death databases, where I was prompted to enter the name I was looking for again. Both databases yeilded resuts for my family members.

Try out the global search of the Illinois State Archives website for your ancestors.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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