LaSalle County Illinois Genealogy Page

LaSalle County was established in 1831 from parts of Putnam and unorganized Tazewell Counties. LaSalle County was named for the famous French explorer Robert de la Salle. The original LaSalle County covered parts of present-day Kendall, Livingston and Marshall counties. Its current boundaries were established in 1843.

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Welcome to LaSalle County. This home page is dedicated to those who are interested in doing genealogical research in LaSalle County and should be viewed as a tool to help you in this endeavor. Suggestions and comments are not only appreciated and welcome but are asked for. All will be answered as soon as possible.  Below are some aides that it is hoped will be helpful in your research. Please feel free to let me know if you have more that you would like to add via e-mail to Annette Liptak so they can included in future editions of this homepage.

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The Past & Present of LaSalle Co. 1877

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Search our site for your LaSalle County Ancestors Surnames

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If you could not find your ancestors in the above search site, try the LaSalle County Surname Helper site, which is alphabetized, and you may find it under a similar spelling. Over 10,000 Surnames indexed in this site so far!

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LaSalle County Links

Queries & Surname's	LaSalle County Communities
· Online Documents -  LaSalle County Records submitted to the ILGenWeb Archives · LaSalle County Lookup Volunteers	· LaSalle County Cemeteries · LaSalle County Cemetery Locations   -   Maps by USGS · Cemetery Location Project -  Put together by the Illinois Genealogical Society
· Community Map of  LaSalle County · Township Map · 1875 LaSalle County Map  - Source: "Atlas of Henry Co. Illinois"  Warner & Beers Publishers, Chicago, 1875. Submitted by Alice Gless	· LaSalle County Family Homepages  -  If you have an ancestor that lived in LaSalle County and a genealogy web site, please send me your URL and surnames and I will see that it gets posted to this page.
LaSalle County Churches	LaSalle County 1917 Farmers Directory
LaSalle County in the Civil War	Black Hawk Roster of LaSalle County Men
LaSalle County Photos	LaSalle County Obituaries

 Useful LaSalle County Addresses

LaSalle County Genealogy Guild 115 West Glover Ottawa, Illinois 61350 (815) 433-5261  Open Monday - Saturday
Downtown Courthouse Madison & Columbus St. Ottawa, Illinois 61350 Available Records: Probate 1839, Court 1870, Naturalization 1840, School 1900's	Courthouse (New Complex) Etna Road Ottawa, Illinois 61350 Available Records: Marriage 1831, Birth 1877,  Death 1877, Land 1819
Illinois Regional Archives Depository Swen Parson Hall  Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Telephone: (815) 753-1779 Hours: M-F 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m IRAD's Holdings for LaSalle County	Reddick Library 1010 Canal Street  Ottawa, IL 61350-4998  Phone: (815)434-0509  FAX: (815)434-2634  kberggren@starbase1.htls.lib.il.us
Peru Public Library 1409 11th Street   Peru, IL 61354  (815) 223-0229  Fax: (815) 223-1559

Links to Neighboring Counties

Bureau County Putnam County Marshall County Woodford County Livingston County Grundy County Kendall County Kane County DeKalb County Lee County

Useful Links on the Internet

Family History Centers List of Family History Centers throughout the US and Canada	City Search Search for a city in the US to find the county it is located in
Bureau of Land Management This site has a searchable database of over 2 million pre-1908 Federal land title records, including scanned images of those records.	GenForum Every surname imaginable.  If your Surname is not listed, start a forum yourself.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites	Cyndi's List of Illinois Sites
Genealogy Helplist Illinois Volunteers who are willing to help with specific items at nearby institutions.

ILGenWeb Links & USGenWeb Project Links

ILGenWeb State Page	ILGenWeb Archives
Illinois in the Civil War Project	Genealogy & Historical Societies of Illinois
The ILGenWeb Ultimate List of Links	USGenWeb Page
USGenWeb Archives State Index	USGenWeb Census Project
USGenWeb Tombstone Project	World GenWeb

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