Research Tools

This page contains various research tools related to Fulton County to help you in your family history quest.

Message Boards/Queries

• Fulton County Query & Message Board
• Fulton County Mailing List
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 1996
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 1997
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 1998
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 1999
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 2000
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 2001
• ARCHIVE - Fulton County Queries 2002
• Previous Fulton County Genealogy Forum

Libraries

• Astoria Public Library District
• Village of Avon Public Library, 309-465-3933
• Parlin-Ingersoll Public Library
• Spoon River College Library
• Spoon River Public Library District
• Fairview Township Library, 309-778-2240
• Farmington Area Public Library District
• Lewistown Carnegie Public Library District
• Vermont Public Library, 309-784-6291
• Family Search Family History Library (FHL) Catalog for Fulton County

Newspapers

• Avon Sentinel @ Ancestry (subscription required)
• Eagle Publications of Western Illinois (for recent Fulton County obitituaries)
• The Daily Ledger - Canton, Illinois
• The Daily Ledger - Canton, Illinois @ Ancestry.com (subscription required)

Books

• Inscriptions from the earliest cemeteries in the following townships of Fulton County, Illinois : Bernadotte, Farmers, Pleasant, Vermont, Mary Baumgardner
  
  
• Cemetery Inscriptions of Fulton County, Fulton County Historical and Genealogical Society
  
  
• McDonough, Fulton and Hancock Counties, Illinois Cemetery Listings, ca. 1793-1971, Virgil R. Foster
  
  
• History of Fulton County, Illinois, Charles C. Chapman & Co., 1879 (available online)
  
  
• A History of Fulton County, Illinois, in Spoon River Country, 1818-1968, Fulton County Board of Supervisors with the cooperation of the Fulton County Historical Society, 1969
  
  
• The Legacy of the Mines: Memoirs of Coal Mining in Fulton County, Illinois, John E. Hallwas, 1993
  
  
• Historic Fulton County: Sites and Scenes, Fulton County Historical Society, 1973
  
  
• Atlas Map of Fulton County, Lyter Andreas & Co., 1871
  
  
• Fulton County, Illinois, Land Atlas & Plat Book, Rockford Map Publishers, 2001
  
  
• The Story of Camp Ellis, U.S. Department of Defense (available online)
  
  
• Drawings of Fulton County, Illinois, Barns and Some Carriage Houses, David Alan Badger, 1991
  
  Fulton County 1860 Federal Census, 7 vols., McLean County Genealogical Society, 1990.
  
  Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Master (available online)
  

Other

• Fulton County Historical & Genealogical Society
• Fulton County Clerk's Office
• Fulton Count Circuit Court Case Files Index (1825-1876)
• Illinois Ancestors - Fulton County
• Illinois State Archives
• Fulton County Funeral Home Listing
• Dickson Mounds Museum
• Cyndi's List of Geneaology Websites