Kankakee Valley Genealogical Society

Serving the Kankakee County  Area

P.O. Box 442, Bourbonnais, Illinois 60914

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Society Information K3 County Cemeteries Web Projects & Databases Misc
Cemetery Information County records
Beebe Cemetery pictures Links
Leggtown Cemetery pics County Township map
Mt Langham Cemetery pics County Birth Records Site Map
Manteno State Hosp Cemetery KVGS Indexes  
  Ancestor Books  
Publications   County 1860 Census  
Recent additions to the above links are in green (last 3 months)

Announcements

  The Kankakee Public Library has a local genealogist in the Genealogy Room every Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. to help anyone with genealogical research  
   
Future Meetings!   At the Kankakee Library, 1:00pm unless otherwise noted  
  Oct. 2, 2010 Mary Buhr from Iroquois County Genealogical Society speaking on New Genealogy Websites as well as a refresher on Tried & True Websites.
     
 

Kankakee County Death Certificates have been removed pending approval from the County Clerk

6/17/2010
     
 

First Kankakee County Census (1860) now on line  <click here>

7/5/2010
     

 

Great links from our Quarterly & others

 

NARA Adds Immigration  Indexes to its Website

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Has placed three important immigration indexes on their website: "Germans to America (1850-1879)", "Italians to America (1855-1900", and "Russians to America (1834-1897)".  These were previously available only in book and CD form.  Access is through the NARA website.  Scroll down to the section called "Specific Immigration Topics".               www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration
  
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  
  

See more genealogy at The Kankakee, IL  GenWeb Project

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

Hot off the presses!!!

St. George Catholic Church Records 1860-2006,  available for $30 plus $4.00 P&H   5/18/08
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