Kankakee Valley Genealogical Society

Serving the Kankakee County  Area

C/O Kankakee Public Library, 201 East Merchant St., Kankakee, IL 60901

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Society Information K3 County Cemeteries Web Projects & Databases Misc
Cemetery Information County records
Beebe Cemetery pictures Links
Leggtown Cemetery pictures County Township Map & Info
Mt Langham Cemetery pictures County Birth Records K3 County Church photos
Manteno State Hosp Cemetery KVGS Centennial Indexes Kankakee Postcards
Publications Pilot Center Cemetery Ancestor Books Kankakee Area Ancestor Photos
  Union Corners Cemetery County 1860 Census Vintage Newspapers
  Barnett Cemetery pictures County Church Records 1900 & 1915 Kankakee Cnty Atlas
  Chief Yellowhead marker KVGS OBITUARY IMAGES Site Map
  St. Patricks Momence Cemetery
  Momence Protestant Cemetery
   
  Shrontz Cemetery 
   
  St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery    
  Sherburnville Cemetery    
  Mount Calvary Cemetery to 1945    

Announcements

 
  • A volunteer is available to assist in our Genealogy Dept on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

  • Meetings from now on will be held at the Kankakee Public Library 3rd floor conference room, 10:30am, the first Saturday of the even numbered months unless otherwise noted. Meetings are free and open to the public

  • Meeting Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, 10:30am A presentation by Maximiliaan Michels “From Discovering Ancestry… to Finding History”. An introduction of his family history, showing some of the tools used to obtain information, and presenting how that has coordinated with improving his studies of Dutch-Americans in both our national and local history.

  • !! NEW !! Tombstone Turnings by Sylvia Soucie Check the publication page.

  • KVGS Web Site Updates

    For the latest updates to this website, please look at the updates page.

 
     



 

Great links from our Quarterly & others

 

A "how to" site for those new and also experienced to genealogy www.veritasprep.com/genealogy-resources-by-veritas-prep New

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The indexed by name 1940 census for Bradley, IL is available on the Bradley Historical Society web site. www.bhsil.org

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Bradley Historical Society   Bradley Historical Society   Pictures & history

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!!!NEW!!! History of the Great Lakes States... Free online history library for the five states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin

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Locate graves                                                 http://findagrave.com/

Public Records Office of Northern Ireland:      www.proni.gov.uk/  

Castle Garden                                                www.castlegarden.org

Native American Genealogy                           www.accessgenealogy.com/native/

Minnesota Historical Society                          www.mnhs.org/genealogy  

Massachusetts Archives                                 www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm  

U.S. Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Land Mgt. www.glorecords.blm.gov/  

  


See more genealogy at The Kankakee, IL  GenWeb Project


 




Learn more about Kankakee County at the Kankakee County Convention & Visitors Bureau.





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