Illinois

Federal Censuses & Statewide Indexes

Federal Census Indexes, by County

Illinois Territorial Census :

1810 1818 1820

Illinois State Census:

1825 1830 1835 1845 1855 1855 Index 1865

Federal Censuses & Statewide Indexes:

 

Year  Census  Index   Notes  
1810   Film   Book (see below)   Call # F896.443, vol.24  
1818    Book (see below)   Call # F896.443, vol.24  
1820   Film  Book (see below)   Call # F896.443, vol.26  
1830  Film  Book  Also see County Index list 
1840  Film  Book  Also see County Index list  
1850  Film   Book  Also see County Index list 
1850 Chicago    Book  Also see County Index list  
1850 Cook    Book    
1850 Agricultural  Film   Book  Call # Microfilm 111
1850 Mortality  Film  Book  Call # Microfilm 118 Reel 1
1860  Film  Book  Also see County Index list  
1860 Chicago  Film  Book   
1860 Agricultural  Film    Call # Microfilm 112
1860 Manufacturing   Film     Call # Microfilm 115
1860 Mortality  Film     Call # Microfilm 118 Reels 1 - 2
1860 Mortality     Geneva  Book call # folio F 540.V62
1870  Film  CD  Also see County Index list  
1870 African-American     CD   
1870 Chicago    Book, Map    
1870 Agricultural  Film    Call # Microfilm 113
1870 Manufacturing  Film    Call # Microfilm 115
1870 Mortality  Film    Call # Microfilm 118 Reels 2 - 3
1880   Film  CD,
Soundex Film (Microfilm 1237)
Chicago E.D. Map 
Chicago E.D. map available on-line.
Also see County Index list  
1880 Agricultural   Film    Call # Microfilm 116
1880 Manufacturing   Film     Call # Microfilm 114
1880 Mortality  Film     Call # Microfilm 118 Reels 3-7
1890  Film    Fragments of McDonough Co.  
1900  Film   Soundex Film, Chicago E.D. Map    Chicago E.D. map available on-line.
1910  Film  CD, Miracode, Chicago E.D. Map  Chicago E.D. map available on-line.
ED Description Microfilm #407  
1920  Film   Ancestry.com, Soundex  Chicago E.D. map available on-line.
ED Description Microfilm #1109  
1930   Film   Ancestry.com    Chicago E.D. map availble on-line.
Illinois ED Descriptions on microfilm
1930   Chicago and Peoria street indexes on microfilm  

1880 Soundex Microfilm Call # Microfilm 1237. Page by soundex code, except for codes 0200-0240. These codes were not filmed, but are available in the print volume The 1880 Illinois Census Index....The Codes that Were Not Filmed Call # Local History F540 .F73 (2nd floor open shelf.)

Federal Census Indexes, by County:

 

County  Year  Call Number 
Adams  1850  folio F547.A2 N45 
Alexander  1850  folio F547.A3 W65 
Carroll 1850  folio F547.C2 S6 
Cass  1880   
Champaign  1840  folio F 8960 .41 no.2 
Champaign  1850, 1860   
Christian  1840  folio F 8960 .41 no.3 
Christian  1850   
Christian  1860  folio F547.C5 D28 
Clark  1850  folio F547.C53 T87 
Clark  1860  folio F547.C53 T86 
Clay  1850  folio F547.C55 W65 
Clay  1870, 1880   
Clinton  1850  folio F547.C57 W65 
Clinton  1860   
Coles  1870   
Cook  1850 excludes Chicago   
Cook, Chicago  1850   
Cook, Palatine Twp  1900  folio F549.P14 K69 1986 
Crawford  1850   
Cumberland  1850, 1870   
Cumberland  1860  folio F547.C9 D43 
De Kalb  1850   
De Kalb  1860  folio F547.D3 R63 
De Kalb  1880   
De Witt  1840  folio F8960 .41 no. 6 
De Witt  1850, 1870   
De Witt  1900  folio F547.D5 W95 2000 
De Witt  1910  folio F547.D5 W955 2000 
Douglas  1870   
Du Page  1850  folio F547.D9 R63 
Du Page  1860  folio F547.D9 R64 
Du Page  1870   
Du Page  1840  foliio F547.D9 R625 
Edgar  1850  folio F547.E25 S45 
Edwards  1850  folio F547.E3 S64 
Edwards  1870  folio F547.E3 E55 
Edwards  1880   
Effingham 1840  folio F 8960 .41 no.1 
Effingham  1850  folio F547..E4 D32 
Effingham  1870   
Fayette  1830   
Fayette  1850   folio F547.F35 M56 
Franklin   1850   folio F547.F778 R33  
Franklin   1860, 1870   
Fulton   1850   
Gallatin  1850   
Greene   1840   
Greene   1850   folio F547.G7 J32  
Greene   1860   folio F547.G7 K55 1993 
Grundy  1860  folio F547.G8 A16 1982 
Hamilton   1860   folio F 896388 .73  
Hamilton.  1870    
Hardin   1870   folio F547.H3 U55 1870 
Jackson   1850   F 89643 .988 
Jefferson   1850   
Jefferson   1870   
Jersey   1850  folio F547.I5 I58 1976 
Jo Daviess   1830,1850,1870   
Jo Daviess  1880   folio F547.J6 H345 
Johnson   1860    
Kendall  1860  folio F547.K4 E33 
Knox   1850  folio F547.K4 H64 
Knox   1860   folio F547.K7 J37 1982 
Knox  1860   folio F547.K7 K558  
Lake   1860   folio F547.L2 L31 
Lake   1862 Military   folio F547.L2 I64 1991 
Lake   1870   
Lake   1880  folio F547.L2 E33 
Lake  1900   folio F547.L2 N56 
LaSalle   1860, 1870, 1880   
Livingston   1850   folio F547.L78 B55  
Logan   1840  folio F 8960 .41 no.5 
Logan   1850   
Logan   1860  folio F547.L8 E54  
Macon   1840   folio F 8960 .41 no.4  
Macon   1850, 1870   
Macon   1860   folio F547.M17 H85 
Macon Civil War military     folio F547.M17 M33 1991 
Macoupin  1850   folio F547.M18 H4  
Macoupin   1860    
Virden, Macoupin   1900  folio F549.V57 B734 1985 
Madison   1850  folio F547.M2 W67  
Madison   1860, 1870   
Marion   1850  folio F547.M3 W67  
Marion   1880   
Marshall   1850, 1870   
Marshall   1860  folio F547.M34 R33 1982 
Mason   1850   folio F547.M37 R53  
Mason   1860   folio F547.M37 T63 1988 
Massac   1850    
McDonough   1860  folio F547.M13 E38  
McDonough   1870   
McHenry   1860   01020546LC on order  
McHenry   1870   folio F547.M14 S73 1992 
McLean   1850    
Menard   1850  folio F547.M5 S35 
Menard   1860   folio F547.M5 U6 1860 
Menard   1870, 1880, 1910   
Mercer   1850    
Monroe  1820  folio F547.M68 V42 1999  
Monroe   1830   folio F547.M68 V423 1999  
Monroe   1850   folio F547.M68 W67  
Montgomery f   1850   olio F547.M7 S3 
Morgan   1870    
Morgan  1860   folio F547.M8 G63  1983
Moultrie  1850  folio F547.M9 R3  
Moultrie  1860  folio F547.M9 R39  
Moultrie   1870    
Peoria   1850   folio F547.P4 O3 
Perry  1850  folio F 896691 .94  
Piatt   1850  folio F547.P5 U54 1850  
Piatt   1860   folio F547.P5 F43 1981 
Piatt   1870, 1880   
Piatt Mortality   1850, 1860, 1870, 1880   F547. P5 P521895 
Pope   1850, 1880, 1870    
Pope  1860   folio F547.P7 A63 1983 
Pulaski   1850, 1880   
Putnam   1850  folio F547.P8 W6  
Randolph   1850   folio F547.R2 I58  
Richland  1850   folio F547.R5 C73  
Richland   1860  folio F547.R5 E586 
Richland   1870, 1880   
Richland   1910  folio F547.R5 N56 1986  
Saline   1880  folio F547.S24 M88 1983 
Sangamon   1850, 1870    
Sangamon  1880   folio F547.S3 E34 1989  
Schuyler   1870   
Scott   1850   folio F547.S45 I56 
Scott   1860   folio F547.S45 E5  
Scott   1880  folio F547.S45 G63  
Shelby   1830  folio F 89677 .916  
Shelby   1850   
St. Clair   1840    
Stark  1850  folio F547.S7 S6 
Stark   1860   folio F547.S7 A14 1982 
Starkfolio  1880   F547.S7 B47 1983  
Starkfolio  1900   F547.S7 B466 1980 
Stephenson   1850   
Stephenson   1860    
Tazewell   1850   folio F547.T2 T39 1850 
Tazewell Eastern   1860    
Union   1850   folio F547.U5 R5  
Wabash   1850   
Washington   1850  folio F547.W23 W68  
Wayne   1850   
White   1870   folio F547.W3 A14 1981 
White   1880   folio F547.W3 A15 1981 
White   1900  folio F547.W3 A16 1981  
Whiteside   1860   folio F547.W4 A2 1984  
Will   1860    
Williamson   1850  folio F547.W6 H39  
Williamson  1860  folio F547.W6 H38 
Williamson   1870   
Winnebago   1850, 1870   

Illinois Territorial Census 1810

Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. (Call # F896.443, vol. 24)

Transcribed & indexed. Enumerates heads of families, number of free white males & females by age group, other free people, slaves. Randolph County only; includes parts of current Perry County.

Illinois Territorial Census 1818

Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. (Call # F896.443, vol. 24

Transcribed & indexed. Enumerates heads of families, number of free white males over 21, other white people, free persons of color, slaves. Virtually entire state is included. By County: Bond, Crawford, Franklin, Gallatin, Jackson, Johnson, Madison, Monroe, Pope, Randolph, St. Clair, Union, Washington, White. See the Illinois Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Call # Local History oG 1201.F7 A8 1993 Ill) on 2nd floor, open shelf for 1818 county boundaries.

 

Illinois Territorial Census 1820

Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. (Call # F896.443, vol. 26)

Transcribed & indexed. Enumerates heads of families, number of free white males under 21, over 21, females under 18, over 18, free persons of color, slaves. Includes changes from 1818 Illinois Territorial Census & 1820 Federal Census.

 

Illinois State Census 1825

(Call # Microfilm 306, reel 1)

Enumerates heads of households, number of males & females by age group, servants/slaves, free persons of color, manufacturing. Film Incomplete; Edwards & Fulton Counties Randolph County (Book on open 2nd floor shelves)

 

Illinois State Census 1830

(Call # Microfilm 306, reel 1)

Enumerates heads of households, number of free whites, Negroes & Mulattos, militia, manufacturing. Incomplete; Morgan County, including parts of current Cass & Scott Counties.

Illinois State Census 1835

(Call # Microfilm 306, reel 1)

Enumerates heads of households, number of free whites, Negroes & Mulattos, militia, manufacturing. Incomplete; Morgan County, including parts of current Cass & Scott Counties.

Illinois State Census 1845

(Call # Microfilm 306, reel 1)

Enumerates heads of households, free white males & females, free persons of color, manufacturing. Incomplete; only Cass, Putnam, Tazewell counties; 1845 Cass County also includes parts of current Morgan County.

Illinois State Census 1855

(Call # Microfilm 306)

Generally very poor quality of document - some counties badly faded.

The schedules include the name of the head of family, ages of other members of household, militia and Negroes (checkmarks only), manufactories & value, agricultural (value of livestock), and information about students.

Reel 1   Adams  
Reel 2   Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clay  
Reel 3   Clinton, Coles, Cook 
Reel 4   Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, DuPage Edgar, Edwards  
Reel 5  Greene, Grundy, Hamilton  
Reel 6   Gallatin, Hancock, Henderson, Iroquois, Jackson, Jasper, Jersey, Johnson, Kane 
Reel 7   Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, LaSalle  
Reel 8   Lawrence, Lee 
Reel 9  Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McHenry 
Reel 10  McLean, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion ,Marshall, Mason, Massac 
Reel 11   Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle 
Reel 12   Peoria, Perry, Piatt*, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam  
Reel 13  Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, St. Clair 
Reel 14  Saline, Sangamon, Shelby, Stephenson, Schuyler, Scott, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash  
Reel 15  Wagner, Warren, Washington, White, Whiteside, Williamson, Winnebago  

* Piatt County Index Call # F547.P5 P521895

 

1855 State Census Index

(Call # Microfilm 1230)

Reel Name Range   Reel Name Range
Reel 1 (illegible), James - Ballard, Gebison   Reel 14 Lawson, JNO (Ogle Co.) - McDaniel, Jesse
Reel 2 Ballard, H. - Blystone, Henry   Reel 15 McDaniel, JNO - Mells, John A. & PO
Reel 3 Bnener, Joshua - Buckners, S.B   Reel 16 Mellsch, George - Murphy, M. (Jo Daviess Co.)
Reel 4 Buckotts, H. - Chittenden, A.J.   Reel 17 Murphy, M. (Jo Daviess Co.)-Parnick, M
Reel 5 Chittenden, Allen - Cox, Francis   Reel 18 Parnick, M. (Cook Co.) - Quigly, Patrick (Cook Co.)
Reel 6 Cox, G. - Dickison, Justin   Reel 19 Quigly, Patrick (Cook Co.) - Rogers, W. (St. Clair Co.)
Reel 7 Dickison, Russell - Evans, Jos. (Jo Daviess Co.)   Reel 20 Rogers, W. (Shelby Co.) - Shaw, A.F.
Reel 8 Evans, Jos. (Kane Co.) - Fyke, W.R.   Reel 21 Shaw, Mrs. A.L. - Snyder, George (Knox Co.)
Reel 9 (illegible), G. - Grover, A. (Cook Co.)   Reel 22 Snyder, George (Richland Co.) - Tarrant, William
Reel 10 Grover, A. (Cook Co.) - Hay, John (Sangamon Co.)   Reel 23 Tarrell, John - Vender, Isaac D.
Reel 11 Hay, John (Whiteside Co.) - Howard, Mary Window   Reel 24 Vedder, J. -White, James A.
Reel 12 Howard, Milton W. - Judah, Jim   Reel 25 White, James B. - Wytert, Mr.
Reel 13 Judd, A. - Lawson, John (Morgan Co.)   Reel 26 Y.L, John - Zwick, Lewis

Illinois State Census 1865

(Call # Microfilm 305) Poor document quality.

The schedules include the name of the head of family, ages of other members of household, militia and Negroes (checkmarks only), manufacturing description, agricultural (value of livestock), and information about students.

County Reel   County Reel   County Reel
Adams   Reel 1     Hardin   Reel 6     Peoria   Reel 15  
Alexander  Reel 2     Henry   Reel 7     Perry   Reel 15 
Bond   Reel 2    Henderson   Reels 1, 2 & 16     Piatt*   Reel 15 
Boone   Reels 2 & 3    Iroquois   Reels7 & 8     Pike   Reel 6 
Brown  Reel 4    Jackson  Reels 6 & 7     Pope  Reel 11 
Bureau  Reel 1     Jasper   Reel 6     Pulaski   Reels 2 & 15  
Calhoun   Reel 5    Jefferson   Reel 6    Putnam   Reel 15 
Carroll   Reel 4    Jersey   Reels 8 & 9     Randolph   Reels13 & 14  
Cass   Reel 5    Jo Daviess   Reel 2     Richland   Reels 11&13  
Champaign   Reel l3    Johnson   Reel 7    Rock Island   Reels 16 & 17 
Christian  Reel 3     Kane   Reel 9    St. Clair   Reel 17  
Clark   Reel 3    Kankakee   Reel 8    Saline   Reel 14 
Clay   Reel 5     Kendall   Reel 9     Sangamon   Reel 17  
Clinton   Reel 3    Knox   Reel 8     Shelby   Reel 19 
Coles   Reel 5     Lake  Reel 10    Stephenson   Reel 19 
Cook  Reels 12 &13     LaSalle  Reel 18    Schuyler   Reel 19  
Crawford   Reels 3 & 4     Lawrence  Reel 10     Stark   Reel 19  
Cumberland   Reel 3     Lee   Reel 10     Scott   Reel 20 
DeWitt  Reel 4     Livingston  Reel 10    Tazewell   Reel 17  
Douglas   Reel 4     Logan   Reel 9     Union   Reel 20 
DuPage  Reel 4    McDonough  Reel 14    Vermilion   Reels 17 & 18 
Edgar   Reels 5 & 6     McLean   Reel 14    Wabash   Reel 21 
Edwards   Reels 1& 15    Macon   Reel 11    Warren   Reel 21 
Effingham   Reels 1 & 16    Madison  Reels 10 & 11     Washington   Reel 20  
Fayette   Reels 1 & 16     Marion   Reels 18 & 19     Wayne   Reel 20 
Ford   Reels 1& 15    Marshall   Reel 15    White  Reel 20 
Franklin   Reels 1 & 16     Massac   Reel 19    Whiteside   Reel 21 
Fulton  Reel 2     Menard   Reel 11    Will  Reel 18  
Greene   Reel 5     Mercer  Reel 14    Williamson   Reel 21 
Grundy   Reels 1 & 16    Morgan   Reel 11    Winnebago   Reel 21 
Hamilton   Reel 7    Moultrie   Reel 19    Woodford   Reel 20 
Hancock   Reel 7    Page   Reel 11       

Book index for Jo Daviess County is on open shelf.

*Piatt County Index Call # F547. P5 P521895

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