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CHRISTIAN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY
Box 28
Taylorville, IL 62568
RESEARCH POLICY
Cost $10 to research, per family, our
holding for both Internet or US Postal queries. If you are a member
of our society we will look in our holdings free.
BIOGRAPHIES: For biographies we
have Christian County histories: 1880, 1894, 1904, 1918, 1964.
Morrisonville and Palmer Centennials have a few bios.
PLAT MAPS: Earliest plat map is 1872; it has an index. If township
is known we will search in the 1891, 1902, 1911, 1918, 1924 plats.
CENSUS: The only census we have are: 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
and IL State census for 1855 & 1865
CEMETERIES: Taylorville's Oak Hill cemetery information can be accessed on
line through the Taylorville Web Page (http://oakhill.taylorville.net/search.asp).
We will look in our holdings for Christian County
Cemeteries. Abandoned cemeteries were read in the 1960's and reread
in late 1980's. Active ones were also read in the 1960's and have
not been kept up to date.
OBITUARIES: Need to have at least month and year to look up
obituaries. We have the following newspapers on
Microfilm: Taylorville Breeze April 30, 1894 - July 1946 with 1898
missing.(daily paper). Pana Gazette July 27, 1865 -
December 18, 1886 and Pana Palladium January 1, 1887 - December
1897. (weekly papers) Morrisonville August 27,
1865 - December 18, 1886. Some from Assumption. Earlier papers had
very few obituaries, and all had missing dates and some complete
years. Taylorville Breeze Courier and Pana News Palladium newspaper office
has all years to date but no microfilm printer. If we go to
the newspaper we will charge $5 extra and only hand copy pertinent genealogy
information.
MARRIAGES: We have Marriage index from 1839 to 1920.
MICROFILM: Probate records: 1839 - 1886; Letters & Wills: 1849 - 1861
& 1871 - 1919; Land Deeds 1839 - 1884; Quit Claims 1868 - 1890.
COURTHOUSE: State laws: you can get death and marriage certificates
earlier than 25 years and birth records earlier than 75 years. The courthouse
charges $5 for copies of these certificates. Without dates it will
cost $10 per person. We will go and look up those and other records
for $10 plus what the courthouse charges us.
Let us know if you wish
for us to do research for you.
