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County Clerk of Will County 302 N. Chicago Street Joliet, IL 60432-4060 (815) 740-4615	Coroners Office of Will County 14 W Jefferson Street, #206 Joliet, IL 60432 (815) 727-8455
Joliet Area Historical Society 17 E Van Buren St Joliet, IL 60432-4211 (815) 722-7003 They publish the Joliet Courier	Joliet Public Library 150 North Ottawa St Joliet, IL 60432-1132 (815) 740-2666; Fax: 740-6161 $5.00 Search Fee 10 cents per page for any photocopy 25 cents per page for any microfilm reader copy
Joliet Area Historical Museum 204 N Ottawa St Joliet IL 60432	Joliet Family History Center 655 Springfield Ave Joliet, IL (815)722-8621 Email: Tracy Polyak, Director Hours: Tues and Thur: 6-9pm; Sat: 9am-12noon
Will County Historical Society (815) 838-5080 Historical structures (1837) of Illinois & Michigan Canal History, Will County - They have some great quarterly publications for sale	Isle a la Cache Museum Forest Preserve District of Will County Romeoville; (815) 886-1467 French-Native American fur trade era (1650-1800) Illinois & Michigan Canal
Three Rivers Public Library 25207 W. Channon Drive Channahon, IL 60410 (815) 467-6200; Fax: (815) 467-4012	Three Rivers Public Library 109 Wabena Minooka, IL 60447 (815) 467-1600
Historical Society of Greater Peotone (708) 258-3436 1 of 4 windmills in IL built on Holland plan (1872), Peotone area materials	Plainfield Historical Society Museum (815) 436-4073 Local history, genealogy, decorative arts, military, archaeology, library, textiles, farm & household items, school
Plainfield Public Library 705 N. Illinois Street Plainfield, IL 60544 (815) 436-6639; Fax: 815/439-2878	Gladys Fox Museum Lockport Township Park District (815) 828-1183 Historic building, local history, 18th century
Des Plaines Valley Public Library District Lockport 121 E. 8th St Lockport, IL 60441 (815) 838-0755 Email	Romeoville Area Historical Society (708) 739-7951 Collection of artifacts from DuPage Township farm days, clothing, maps of beginnings of two villages of Romeoville
National Archives - Chicago Branch 7358 South Pulaski Road Chicago, IL 60629 (773) 581-7816	IL Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) for Will Co Swen Parson Hall Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) 753-1779
IL State Archives Archives Building Springfield, IL 62756 (217) 782-4682	IL State Historical Library Old State Capitol Springfield, IL 62701 (217) 524-7216
Allen County Public Library 900 Webster St. Fort Wayne, IN (219) 424-7241

Will County Lookup Volunteers

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Note: Please be as specific as possible with your request. Include Full names, if known, dates, and places. This information will help both you and the volunteer. Please remember to take the time to thank the volunteer for their time!!

Reference	Volunteer
Census
1850 Census, Family Tree Maker's CD #301	Susan Kuhar Epple
1850 Census (Crete Twp only)	Sharon Galitz
1860 Census	Judy Bunte
1870 Census	Judy Bunte
1880 Census - free search	FamilySearch.org
1900 Census	Judy Bunte
1910 Census	Judy Bunte
1920 Census	Judy Bunte
1930 Census	Judy Bunte
History
Our Roots are Deep © 1973, A History of Monee, Illinois	Sharlene Miller or Robert Arnold
*History of Will Co., 1878* by Wm LeBaron Jr. & Co.	Tricia J. Martin or Michele Roberts Houchens
*Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, 1890* by the Chapman Brothers of Chicago It includes: portraits and bios of the US Presidents - George Washington to Benjamin Harrison; portraits and bios of the Illinois Governors - Shadrack Bond to Joseph W. Fifer; it also includes biographical sketches of the citizens of Will County as of 1890, some have portraits. All of the bios include important genealogical information of the families represented.	Dave Graves
Misc Records
Where the Trails Cross by South Suburban Genealogical Society (Monee, Washington & Will Twp) Vol 4:1 Fall 1973 Vol 8:4 Summer 1978 Vol 14:1 Fall 1983 Vol 16:1 Fall 1985 Vol 18:4 Summer 1988 Vol 21:2 Winter 1990 Vol 24:4 Summer 1994 Vol 27:1 Fall 1996	Sharlene Miller
Where the Trails Cross by South Suburban Genealogical Society (Monee, Crete, Green Garden, Frankfort, Wilton, Homer) 4:1 - Will and Monee 11:3 - Crete twp. 18:3 - Thornton twp. 18:4 - Monee twp. 20:3 - Crete twp. 24:3 - Thornton twp. 24:4 - Monee twp. 27:2 - Crete twp. 28:2 - Cook Co. misc. 29:4 - Roseland 30:2 - Homer twp. 31:2 - Thornton twp. 31:4 - Monee twp. 32:1-2 Surname/Member list 32:3-4 - Dutch album (1896) 28:1 - Monee twp	Sharon Galitz
Where the Trails Cross by South Suburban Genealogical Society (Frankfort, Thornton & Monee Twp) Vol 31:1 Frankfort Twp Vol 31:2 Thornton Twp Vol 31:3 Index to obits from the Suburban Star-Ridge Community Newspaper Vol 31:4 Monee Twp	Maricela Amezcua
*Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois, 1900*	Garnet Icie Schonewise Richards
Minooka Local History Collection Collection focuses on The Three Rivers Library District which encompasses Channahon, Channahon Twp, a portion of Troy Twp, Minooka (Aux Sable Twp, Grundy Co), and a portion of Seward Twp, Kendall Co. Misc information about Channahon, Channahon Twp, and a little bit about Troy Twp (Obits, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, photos; a lot of it is indexed).	Michele Roberts Houchens, Local History Clerk at Three Rivers Public Library District - Minooka Branch
Misc Lookups About 7000 records (cemetary transcriptions, probate records, marriage records, obits, census records, county atlas, Joliet's 3 high school alumni directories, and more	Kathy Zavada (MOST but not all concern the following surnames: Bergin, Callaghan, Delaney, Faulkner, Fay, Fulton, Gibbons, Giblin, Haggerty or Hegarty, Higginbotham, Kangley, Kindelin, Laughlin, Marshall, McLaughlin, McCarthy, lots of Mac/Mc names, Mulvihill, Norton, lots of Irish and Scottish O's, Quigley, Quin, Spencer, Toughy, VanHorne, Walsh, Welch, Wheeler, and many more)
1910 Atlas - shows land owners and where they lived in the townships	Robert Arnold
1947 Joliet City Directory includes Rockdale and Lockport	Jody Green
1949 Joliet Telephone Book	Jack Braun
1962 and 1986 Joliet City Directories	Marge Rice
Vital Records Birth / Marriage / Death / Burial
IL Marriage Database: 1763-1900	IL State Archives Database
Bohemian Marriages in Will County, IL; 1878-1901 Published in CSAGSI Koreny, Fall 1997 issue Name of the Groom (alphabetically), the Bride's name, Date of marriage and Certificate #.	Beverly S. Aylor
St. Mary's Catholic Church in Minooka, Grundy County, IL (Many Will County Catholics from Channahon, Troy, Wilmington and Jackson townships records) Marriages: 1869 - 1919 Baptisms: 1869 - 1919	Kathy Zavada
Cemeteries
Online Index to the Cemeteries of Southern Will & Grundy Counties	Coal City Public Library Email Request - for more info
Arsenal Cemeteries by Will Grundy Genealogy Society, 2002 including: McCune, German Evangelical, Starr's Grove, Reed's Grove, Newton, and Klinger	Kathy Zavada
Crete Cemetery by South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society, 1978 reading	Sharon Galitz
Oakwood Cemetery, Wilmington	Kathy Zavada
Peotone Twp Cemetery	Richard Helmer
St Rose Catholic Cemetery, Wilmington	Kathy Zavada
SSGHS Free Quick Search SSGHS will do a quick lookup in their Master Index for 3 names	South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society

Will County Publications for Sale

Publications for Sale	Will/Grundy Counties Genealogical Society
Bring Many Names by Rev. David McDonald PO Box 144 DeForest, WI 53532 Phone: (608) 846-0486 as of 2/22/05	An alphabetized listing of all records from Saint John UCC, Beecher, with family charts added and information culled from the cemetery as well. Price: $22 postpaid.
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses by Rev. David McDonald PO Box 144 DeForest, WI 53532 Phone: (608) 846-0486 as of 2/22/05	An alphabetized listing of all records from Zion UCC, Hanover Township, Lake Co, IN, with family charts added and information culled from the cemetery as well. (Note: This book might be useful if your ancestors lived in Washington or Crete Townships. The church is located just across the border in Indiana.) Price: $26 postpaid.
Where The Trails Cross, Vol. 19:4 by South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society P.O. Box 96, South Holland, Illinois 60473-0996	Reprinted booklet of "Will County on the Pacific Slopes" published in 1885, which is a collection of newspaper mentionings of various Will County people who went west for the Gold Rush and were sighted by other Will County folks. They wrote back to the newspaper giving news of their friends and acquaintances from Will County. The area covered is extensive. It circles around southern Cook County all the way from the Indiana state line curving west and north up to Aurora. Price: $4.00 plus $2 s/h.
The First Catholic Church in Joliet, Illinois	173 acid-free pages, hardcover, 6 x 9 volume. Limited edition. $20.00 Details

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