jefferson.illinoisgenweb.orgWelcome to Jefferson Co, IL Genealogy

Jefferson County, IL Genealogy Home Neighbors Families Biographies Townships Photos Cemeteries Census Schools Welcome Jefferson County, Illinois Genealogy project is a free genealogical site about the people and history of this county. We are a part of the ILGenWeb Project which is also a member of the USGenWeb Project. You can click on the logos at the top to be taken to these websites. We hope you find helpful clues for your research of ancestors and relatives of Jefferson county. On December 3, 1818, Illinois was admitted as the twenty-first state of the Union. Just a few months later on March 26, 1819, Jefferson County was organized by the settlers in the area. Early History of Jefferson County, IL Early History of Mt. Vernon, IL Jefferson County Courthouse 100 South 10th Street, Room 105 Mt. Vernon, IL 62864 Phone: 618-244-8020 ext 3 then option 1 for County Clerk’s Department (vital records) Website: http://jeffersoncountyillinois.com/contact-county-clerk The photo to the right is the 5th District Appellate Court in Mt. Vernon which hears cases appealed from trial courts in 48 counties (Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Macon, Madison, Marion, Massac, Monroe, Montgomery, Moultrie, Perry, Piatt, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, Saline, Shelby, St. Clair, Union, Vermillion, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, and Williamson). Please consider contributing your pieces of Jefferson county family history. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED. Our combined efforts can make this a great site for all who visit! Corrections, updates, and additions to this site are always welcome. Web sites go away and website addresses change. Please contact me if you find a broken link on Jefferson county web pages. The Current Jefferson County Coordinator is: Sandy Bauer (born in Mt. Vernon) Past County Coordinators: 2005-2022 Cindy Ford 1997-2004 Misty Flannigan Thanks to our past County Coordinators for all the hard work they put into creating and maintaining this website with help from volunteers who so generously contributed information, documents and photos. We lost Mistry Flannigan in 2004 to sudden death and Cindy Ford resigned in 2022 due to ongoing internet access problems. Memorials Page ...to those we have lost Note: offsite links will open in a new tab in your web browser Join us on Facebook tooJefferson County, Illinois Genealogy Group The Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives were shut down on April 6, 2023. Our Facebook group is a great way to share photos and genealogy information. Search our website: index sitemap advanced Jefferson County mailing list archives IL USGenWeb Archives USGenWeb Archives Formation of Jefferson County (from 1883 History of Jefferson Co, IL book) The population of Jefferson county in the 2020 census was 37,113. Mount Vernon Enterprise Mount Vernon History Illinois State Archives Online Databases (online and searchable - opens in a new tab in your web browser) Jefferson County on Familysearch.org (create a free account to search all the records they have available.) Search images of records for Jefferson County that have not yet been indexed on Familysearch.org Historical Books on Jefferson County now online: (Note these books have many pages so they take extra time to load in your browser. They can be downloaded in PDF format to your computer) History of Jefferson County, IL by William Henry Perrin - 1883 Walls History of Jefferson County, Illinois - 1909 Portrait and Biographical Record of Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties - 1894 If you have slower internet connection you may wish to sign in to your free FamilySearch.org account and view the digital version of these books page by page here (you need to have an account but it’s free so sign up if you don’t have an existing account): History of Jefferson County, Illinois ...by William Henry Perrin (1883) Portrait and Biographical Record of Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties ...Chapman Publishing (1894) Wall’s History of Jefferson County, Illinois ....By John A. Wall (1909) History of Jefferson County, Illinois, 1810-1962 .... by Continental Historical Bureau (1962) Information On Our Website Anniversaries Appellate Court House Bastardy Cases Bible Records Biographies Births Blank Forms Bluford Cemeteries Census Church Histories Circuit Court Coal Mines Correspondence DAR Deaths Deeds Diseases Divorces DNA Presentation (by Sheldon Jones) Dogwood Tree Early Doctors Epidemics Family Letters Families Guardianships Land Look-Ups Marriages Military Naturalization Neighbors Newspaper Clips Newspaper History Obituaries Obituary Files Submit an Obituary Orphan Trains Photos Pioneer Association Notes Population Postcards Prairie Historian Queries Schools Surnames Submit Your Surnames Scrapbooks Theaters Tornado of 1888 Tornado Articles Townships & Ranges Wide Fence Row Wills & Probate Yearbooks Year End Views Jefferson County Resources C.E. Brehm Library in Mt. Vernon Jefferson County Courthouse Jefferson County Political Graveyard Jefferson County Genealogical Society Jefferson County Sheriffs Jefferson County Historical Society Jefferson County Prairie Historian Excerpts Jefferson County Postcards Jefferson County Historical Villiage Jefferson County Tidbits Jefferson County Mt. Vernon Mayors Funeral Homes (& Obituaries) Osborn Funeral Home Newell Funeral Home Hughey Funeral Home Johnston Funeral Home The following are no longer in business (or bought and renamed) Bluford Funeral Home - Jackson Funeral Home - Pulley Funeral Home - Myers Chapel Other Online Current Obituaries (including surrounding counties) WMIX94 Mt. Vernon Radio Station McLeansboro Gazette Hamilton County, McLeansboro - Gholson’s Funeral Home Wayne County - Radio Station WFIW Marion County - Salem Radio Station WJBD Marion County - Crouse Funeral Home Franklin County - Benton Evening News Washington County - The Nashville News The Southern Illinoisan For corrections or additions, please contact me: Sandy Bauer Jefferson County, IL Genealogy Copyright 1997- Designed by Templates in...