DuPage County, Illinois - Genealogy Research

September 1996 - September 2007
Celebrated 11 years as an ILGenWeb site

This web site is designed to help you do genealogical research in DuPage County, IL. It provides some original records and indexes. It also provides links to state and nationwide online indexes as well as information about local research facilites where records and publications can be viewed. The DuPage County Genealogical Society and Jeffrey A. Bockman have been the ILGenWeb coordinator since its inception in September, 1996. It is the result of the efforts of the numerous members of DCGS that have compiled the various records and indexes and allowed us to make them available online.

Good Luck in your research, Jeff.

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All of the DuPage County indexes and online data are on the DuPage County Genealogy Society's website.

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DuPage County History & Maps

1900 - Census Images
1882 - History of DuPage County, Ill by Blanchard - Biographies: Index & Info
Full Digital Version with search capabilities
Surname Index
1880 - Census Images
1875 - Map with the nine townships from the 1875 Atlas
1874 - 1874 Atlas - County Map & Landowner maps of the nine townships
Digital Version

1839 - DuPage county was founded
1831 - Cook County
1825 - Detatched Putnam County
1821 - Pike County
1819 - Southeast corner was part of Clark County, Remainder - Indian Lands
1818 - Became part of the State of Illinois
1816 - Illinois Territory - Crawford County
1815 - Illinois Territory - Edwards County
1812 - Illinois Territory - Madison County
1801 - Illinois Territory - St. Clair County
1795 - Indiana Territory - Knox County - unceded Indian lands.
1790 - Northwest Terrritory

Genealogical Societies

The DuPage County Genealogical Society - DCGS
P.O. Box 3, Wheaton, IL 60189-0003

Fox Valley Genealogical Society - FVGS
Covers: Kane, Kendall, DuPage, & Will Counties
P.O Box 5435, Naperville, IL 60567-5435

The Genealogical Forum of Elmhurst
120 East Park Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Records & Research
DuPage County Courthouse

Records & Research
Libraries & Museums

DuPage County Queries

All Queries must refer to DuPage County, Illinois.

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On Line Records

Reference Books

The following DCGS publications are for sale:

  • Index to the Naturalization Records of DuPage County, Illinois
  • Necrology Records of Selected Townships in DuPage County - 1 CDROM
      Compiled from cemetery, funeral home, and church records for Addison (about 15,000 entries), York (about 15,000 entries), and Downers Grove & Lisle (about 23,000 entries) townships.
      Each township is Indexed Separately Compiled by Ken Madsen.
  • DuPage County, Illinois, Churches and Their Records 1833-1920 - 100 churches revised in 2006
  • Zion Evan. Lutheran Church (154 pages)
      Church & burial records 1837-1938; A Souls Register, 1888 by Rev. T. Johannes Grosse. Separate indexes for two sections. Edited by Maureen Fawkes & Ken Madsen
  • 1840 DuPage Census (soft cover)
      New edition - revised format
  • 1850 DuPage Census (14 pages, soft cover)
      Transcriptions & surname index by Ruth Flesher Robb
  • 1860 DuPage Census (16 pages, soft cover)
      Transcriptions & surname index by Ruth Flesher Robb
  • 1870 DuPage Census (20 pages, soft cover)
      Transcriptions & surname index by Ruth Flesher Robb
  • DuPage Landowners (85 pages, soft cover)
      Index of names from Public Domain Land purchases, 1862 Map of DuPage Co, 1874 Atlas Map of DuPage Co., biographies in 1904 Atlas & History of DuPage Co., & 1875 tax list for Lombard edited by Marjorie Herlache Peters
  • DuPage Landowners (same information on a CD)
  • Bicentennial Citizens (48 pages, soft cover)
      Index of birth, death & marriage dates taken from applications for Bicentennial Citizen certificates issued in 1976 by Clarence Price
  • Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy / Record & Preserve Your Family's History by Jeffrey A. Bockman

The following FVGS Publications are for sale:

Revised 19 May 2008
Major redesign : 14 May 2004
Original: September 1996