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Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index (Listing of items indexed)
The following is a list of the document types indexed in the CCHADB. Note: If you wish to limit your search to 1 document type just use its starting sequence of numbers with an * and add your boolean expression, e.g. 01010001* Smith. 00 - Champaign County Historical Archives cataloged materials (Champaign County-related items) 00010000 Champaign County books IP 15 01 – Image files 01010001 CCHS regular-sized photos 01020001 CCHA regular-sized photos 01020002 CCHA personal and family photo files 01020003 CCHA local history vertical file photos 01020004 CCHA building plan microfiche 01020005 CCHA digital photos 01070001 Courier newspaper printing plates, negatives, and photos for people 02 – Newspaper resources 02000000 Courier subjects and names 02000002 Courier obituaries 02010000 News-Gazette general articles 02010001 News-Gazette birth announcements 02010002 News-Gazette obituaries 02010003 News-Gazette public notices 02010004 News-Gazette will notices 02010005 News-Gazette building permit information 02010006 News-Gazette wedding announcements 02010007 News-Gazette “Daybook” birth announcements 02010008 News-Gazette business listings 02010009 News-Gazette anniversary announcements 02010010 News-Gazette engagement announcements The following are on Microfilm A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/Newspaper 02020000 Champaign County Gazette general articles 02020002 Champaign County Gazette obituaries 02030000 Champaign Daily Gazette general articles 02030002 Champaign Daily Gazette obituaries 02040000 Daily Illini general articles 02050000 Champaign Daily News general articles 02050002 Champaign Daily News obituaries 02060002 Central Illinois Gazette obituaries 02070002 Champaign County Herald obituaries 02080000 Champaign County News general articles 02080002 Champaign County News obituaries 02090000 Sucker State general articles 02090001 Sucker State birth announcements 02090002 Sucker State obituaries 02090006 Sucker State wedding announcements 02100002 Rantoul Weekly Press obituaries 02110002 Rantoul Press and Chanute Field News obituaries 02120000 Champaign Times general articles 02130002 Illinois Democrat obituaries 02140002 Our Constitution obituaries 02150000 Octopus general articles 02160002 Urbana Union obituaries 02170000 The Hub general articles 02350002 Tolono Weekly Herald obituaries 02360002 Homer Enterprise obituaries 02370002 Saint Joseph Record obituaries 02380000 Sidney Times general articles 02380002 Sidney Times obituaries 02390002 Ivesdale News obituaries 02400000 Pesotum Tribune general articles 02410000 Homer Press general articles 02420000 Homer Journal general articles 02430000 Fisher News general articles 02440002 Fisher Reporter obituaries 02450002 Ogden Courier obituaries 02460002 Sadorus Herald obituaries 02470000 Alien Nation general articles 02480000 Psychedelic Boneyard general articles 02490000 Mid-West Farmer general articles 02500000 Champaign and Urbana Citizen general articles 03 – Champaign County Historical Archives paper files 0300 Local ready reference entries 03010001 Local History vertical files 03010002 Address vertical files 03010003 Family files 03010004 University of Illinois vertical files 0302 Storage box contents 0303 Ancestor charts 0304 Miscellaneous records files 0305 Obituary files 0306 Abstract files 0307 Burial records of Mt. Olive Cemetery, Mayview 0308 Illinois Central Railroad Co. applications 04 – Champaign County official records 04010000 Probate Court case estate papers 04010001 Probate Court case wills from Will Book, vol. 1. 0402 Register of deaths A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DEA 0403 Marriage licenses A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/MAR 0404 Certificates of death A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DEA 0405 Register of births A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/BIR 0406 Marriage license applications 0407 Probate Court guardianship cases 0408 Chancery Court cases 0409 Criminal Court Cases 0410 Specimen ballot of consolidated elections 0415 Superintendent of Schools Central Final Examination record book, 1893-1897 05 – Indexed published/print sources 01 – General books 05010001 Cemeteries of Champaign County, Illinois: a location guide with plat maps (1984) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/BAS 05010002 From Salt Fork to Chickamauga (Behrens) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/BEH 05010003 Early history and pioneers of Champaign County (Matthews and McLean) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/MAT) 05010004 History of Champaign County, Illinois(Cunningham) (1905) [Personal name index entries] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/HIS 05010005 History of Champaign County, Illinois: Partial list of patrons (Brink,McDonough and Co.) (1878) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/HIS 05010006 Royal, Illinois, 1882-1982, centennial A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ROY 05010007 Portrait and biographical album of Champaign County (1887) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/POR 05010008 Champaign County World War I Selective Service registrants A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHA 05010009 Plat book of Champaign County, Illinois (1893): historical directory of Champaign County,Illinois R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05010010 Census of Urbana, Illinois (1903) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05010011 Obituaries (Homer Historical Society) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/(1903)/OBI 05010012 Public servants of Champaign County A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/(1993)/PUB 05010013 Champaign County men in the Civil War,(Schmale) (1989) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/BEH/Supp. 05010014 Businessmen of Allerton (1907) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ALL 05010015 Soldiers’ and patriots’ biographical album (1892) [Champaign County men] A/ILLINOIS/SOL 05010016 100 houses of Urbana, Illinois (1961) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05010017 Champaign Co., IL sesquicentennial celebration pioneer certificate applications, 1983-1984 A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHA 05010018 Reconaissance and inventory of structures in Champaign having preservation potential (1975) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05010019 Roll of Honor: record of burial places of soldiers and sailors of Champaign County (1929) A/ILLINOIS/ILL 05010020 Standard atlas of Champaign County, Illinois: Patrons’ reference directory of Champaign County, Illinois (1913) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05010021 Standard atlas of Champaign County, Illinois: Illustrations (1913) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05010022 Standard atlas of Champaign County, Illinois: Patrons’ reference directory of Champaign County, Illinois (1929) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05010023 Standard atlas of Champaign County, Illinois: Illustrations (1929) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05010024 A biographical history of Western Star Lodge No. 240, A.F. & A.M (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/GOD 05010025 Champaign County patients in Illinois hospitals for the insane, 1897-1924 (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHA 05010026 We will go to a new land: the great East Frisian migration to America, 1845-1895 (1998) [Chapter 18] A/929.34359/BEH 05010027 Journal of deaths, Champaign County Nursing Home, 1948-1987 A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/NUR 05010028 Ho hoedgos tou laou = The people’s guide (1920) [Champaign County men] A/929.3495/SKA 05010029 List of pensioners on the roll, Jan. 1, 1883. Vol. 3 [Champaign County portion] A/974.73/UNI 05010030 The Champaign Park District Tribute to Olympic athletes (1991) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05010031 History commemorating the one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of Urbana Lodge No. 157, A.F. & A.M. (1979) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05010032 History of Urbana Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar (1908) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05010033 Early settlers’ records, vol. 3 (Carlock) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CAR 05010034 Records of the A.B. Shuck and Successor Funeral Home, Urbana, Ill., 1887-1909 (Whiteside) (2000) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05010035 Stopping by (Bial) (1988) A/ILLINOIS/BIA 05010036 Register of names of lands (farms) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/REG 05010037 Historical review of the leading manufacturing centres of Central Illinois (1888) [City of Champaign portion] A/ILLINOIS/HIS 05010038 Teachers of the public schools of Champaign County, Illinois A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/TEA 05010039 Medal of Honor recipients of the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 (1996) A/973/7349/WEL 05010040 Views of the City of Champaign and the University of Illinois (1910?) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05010041 Champaign, University of Illinois, Urbana (1905) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHA [THIS ITEM NEEDS TO BE PAGED AND INDEXED - NOT DONE] 05010042 Heroic statues in bronze of Abraham Lincoln (1932) A/B/LINCOLN/MEA 05010043 Champaign Rotary Club: the story, 1916-2001 [Selected biographical sketches] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05010044 Rantoul First United Methodist Church (2001) [Biographical sketches of ministers] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/RAN 05010045 Blue book of the State of Illinois A/ILLINOIS/BLU 05010046 St. Luke Christian Methodist Episcopal Church : celebrating the scroll of life A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05010047 Class of 1935 50th anniversary Illio A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/UNI 05010048 Industrial directory (1994) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DIR 05010049 Upon a quiet landscape: the photographs of Frank Sadorus (1983) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/SAD 05010050 Vermilion County marriage license abstracts A/ILLINOIS/(Verm)/MAR 05010051 A historical perspective: Midwifery in Champaign County, Illinois (Roehm) (1985) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ROE 05010052 Heartland beat (1981) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/RUB 05010053 Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places: Greek Housing Historic District (1986) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/NOM 05010054 Semi-centennial alumni record of the University of Illinois (1918) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/UNI 05010055 Pesotum Methodist Church (1951) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/PES 05010056 Townships of Champaign County, Illinois (Fisher) (1963) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/FIS 02 – Church records 05020001 Index to St. Peter’s Evangelical Church records, 1865-1943 (Fabert) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/FAB 05020002 Parish records of St. Paul German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Arcola, Illinois, 1867-1935 (Fabert) A/ILLINOIS/(Doug)/FAB 03 – Map indexes 05031858 City of Urbana, Champaign County, State of Illinois (1858) [Bowman map] Map case no. 7-040 05031863 Index to Map of Champaign County, State of Illinois (1863) [Bowman map] Map case no. 6-036 05031873 Index to Map of Champaign Co., Illinois (1873) 05031893 Plat book of Champaign County, Illinois (1893) R/A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 05031940 Index to Historical map of Champaign County, Illinois, 1819-1940 (1940) Map case no. 6-001 05031951 Atlas of Champaign County, Illinois (1951) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/ATL 04 – Cemetery records 05040001 Burials and markers in East Lawn Cemetery, (Whiteside) (1996) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040002 Markers in Grandview Memorial Gardens, Champaign County, Illinois (1997) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040003 Cemetery records of Champaign County, Illinois, vol. 10: Mount Hope Cemetery, Urbana—east half A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040004 Cemetery records of Champaign County, Illinois, vol. 9: Mount Hope Cemetery, Urbana—west half A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040005 Headstone inscriptions of Bethel-Harris Cemetery, Seymour, Illinois (1983) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040006 St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, Royal, Champaign Co., Illinois (1992) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040007 Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Urbana, Illinois, alphabetical listing of burials and grace markers (Whiteside) (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040008 Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, alphabetical listing of burials & markers (Whiteside) (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040009 Transcription of gravestones at St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Thomasboro, Illinois (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040010 St. John’s Cemetery headstone inscriptions A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040011 Patton Cemetery headstone inscriptions A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040012 Clements Cemetery (1982) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040013 Partial listing of interments at the Champaign County Farm cemetery (Whiteside) (2000) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040014 Cemetery inscriptions, St. Joseph Cemetery, Ivesdale, Illinois (1998) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040015 Register of lot owners and burials, Bailey Memorial Cemetery, Tolono, Illinois (2000) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040016 Davis Memorial Cemetery [map] (1973) Storage Box 718 05040017 Pioneer burial places located in the northeast section of Champaign County, Illinois (1957-1958) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040018 Pioneer burial places located in the southeast section of Champaign County, Illinois (1957-1958) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040019 Cemetery records [Dunn; Maplewood] (1963) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040020 Woodlawn Cemetery inscriptions (1983) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040021 Pioneer burial places located in the northwest section of Champaign County, Illinois (1958-1959) A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05040022 Cemetery records of Champaign County, Illinois, vol. 1: St. Mary’s, Homer GAR, Old Huss A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CEM 05 – Directories 05051870 J.S. Lothrop’s 1870-71 Champaign County directory A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DIR 05051878 Chas. Emerson & Co.’s Champaign and Urbana directory, 1878-’79 A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DIR 05051885 Champaign County directory and gazetteer for 1885 A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/DIR 06 – School yearbooks 05060001 Surodas [Sadorus H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/SAD 05060002 Golden [Homer H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/HOM 05060003 Homerian [Homer H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/HOM 05060004 U and I [University Laboratory H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/UNI 05060005 Rosemary [Urbana H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/URB 05060006 Centurian [Centennial H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05060007 Maroon [Champaign H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/CHM 05060008 Echo [Fisher Community H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/FIS 05060009 U 'n I [University Laboratory H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/UNI 05060010 Eaglet [Rantoul Township H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/RAN 05060011 Echoes [Pesotum H.S.] A/ILLINOIS/(Champ)/PES 07 – Family histories 05070001 Descendants of Lucas Meneley and Mary Evertson (1999) A/929.2/MENELEY 05070002 Within these pages are vital statistics for those with the distinguished name of Delaney-Trainor A/929.2/DELANEY 05070003 Starbuck family history (1969) A/929.2/STARBUCK 05070004 A Drennan family history from 1709 to 19— (1977) A/929.2/DRENNAN 05070005 Descendants of Peter Cartwright and Margaret Smith Drennan (1978) A/929.2/DRENNAN 05070006 Grider family records A/929.2/GRIDER 05070007 The family of Matthew Jennett (1965) A/929.2/JENNETT 05070008 Coleman family history (2000) A/929.2/COLEMAN 05070009 William Joseph Hadfield and his descendants (1975) A/929.2/HADFIELD 05070010 Harmesons and their kin (1989) A/929.2/HARMESON 05070011 Supplement to Branches of our family tree (1955) A/929.2/HATCH 05070012 Heyer family A/929.2/HEYER 05070013 Hinton history (1980) A/929.2/HINTON 05070014 Ancestors and descendants of John Schenck Hutchinson Sr. and Sarah Elizabeth Van Hart (1980) A/929.2/HUTCHINSON 05070015 Jordan A/929.2/JORDAN 05070016 My Champaign County ancestors: the Elijah Towner/Phoebe Hicks family… (2000) A/929.2/TOWNER 05070017 My Champaign County ancestors: the Job Harvey/Mary Magdalene Fix family… (2000) A/929.2/HARVEY 05070018 My Champaign County ancestors: the John Cook/Barbara Lee family… (2000) A/929.2/COOK 05070019 A brief history of the lives of Joe Massanari and Lizzie S. Massanari A/929.2/MASSANARI 05070020 Dear cousin : genealogy of Heinrich Pfingsten and Sophia, nee Schutte… (1966) A/929.2/PFINGSTEN 05070021 Porterfields’ in America (1962 A/929.2/PORTERFIELD 05070022 Rock family history, 1799-1956 (1958) A/929.2/ROCK 05070023 Umbarger family (1997) A/929.2/UMBARGER 05070024 Scheurich-Robeck family history (1985) A/929.2/SCHEURICH 05070025 The descendants of Benjamin and Rebecca (Phippeny) Sherman (1981) A/929.2/SHERMAN 05070026 Schluter family letters (1985) A/929.2/SCHLUTER 05070027 The Smith family record from about 1775 to 1966 (1966) A/929.2/SMITH 05070028 Winters-Hepburn family record (1951) A/929.2/WINTERS 05070029 Family tree and history of the Reverend William Warters family (1959) A/929.2/WARTERS 05070030 Thompson family (1989) A/929.2/THOMPSON 05070031 Granville Thompson and Nancy Jane Fancher (1986) A/929.2/THOMPSON 05070032 Bare branches of the Ten Broeck tree (1987) A/929.2/TEN BROECK 05070033 Watson-Johnson family history from 1850-1979 (1979) A/929.2/WATSON 05070034 Christian and Catherine (Ulerich) Wagler, Tazewell settlers (1970) A/929.2/WAGLER 05070035 A record of events (1987) A/B/WEAVER/MON 05070036 On the road to Adam and Eve [McCall family] (2001) A/929.2/MCCALL 05070037 My Champaign County ancestors: the Burnett and Holt families… (2000) A/929.2/BURNETT 05070038 Descendants of John Wright and Mary Chenoweth (2001) A/929.2/WRIGHT 05070039 Kapp & Laley families (2001) A/929.2/KAPP 05070040 The Hutchcrafts in America (1993) A/929.2/HUTCHCRAFT 05070041 Ancestors and descendants of Daniel Gardner V and Mary (Hodges) Gardner (1915) A/929.2/GARDNER 05070042 Robert Augustus Mills (2001) A/929.2/MILLS 05070043 This is our heritage and our descendants (2001) A/929.2/HOFFMAN 05070044 Moore family reunion book (2002) A/929.2/MOORE 05070045 Ancestors and descendants of Elsie Luzena Fisher and Percy Lewis Scott (2002) A/929.2/SCOTT 05070046 Michael Block (2002) A/929.2/BLOCK 05070047 Descendants of Frederick Charles Keal (2002) A/929.2/KEAL 05070048 Descendants of James Harvey Prather (2002) A/929.2/PRATHER 05070049 Descendants of John Walsh (2002) A/929.2/WALSH 05070050 Estep genealogy, 1756-1930, 174 years (1930) A/929.2/ESTEP 05070051 Descendants of Sally (Sarah) Hodge (2001) A/929.2/HODGE 05070052 Reynolds family (2001) A/929.2/REYNOLDS 05070053 Descendants of Martin Diveley (2000) A/929.2/DIVELY 05070054 The Wrench family (2002) A/929.2/WRENCH 05070055 The Neaveill family (2002) A/929.2/NEAVEILL 05070056 Richards-Cox and Barbee-Alexander families A/929.2/RICHARDS 05070057 Armentrout family history, 1739-1978 (1980) A/929.2/ARMENTROUT 05070058 A genealogy of the Shobe, Kirkpatrick, and Dilling families (1919) A/929.2/SHOBE 05070059 History and genealogy of a branch of the Weaver family (1980) A/929.2/WEAVER 05070060 Ball cousins (1981) A/929.2/BALL 05070061 Barnhart memoirs (1956) A/929.2/BARNHART 05070062 Genealogy of the family of Jabez, son of Gamaliel Gerould… (1970) A/929.2/GEROULD 05070063 A genealogy of the Blanchan, Briscoe, Compton…and Wright families (1989) A/929.2/SECORD 05070064 A genealogical record of the descendants of Jacob Beidler of Lower Milford Township, Bucks Co., Pa. (1903) A/929.2/BEIDLER 05070065 William Ames and Richard Ames (1959) A/929.2/AMES 05070066 Metz family ancestors (2003) A/929.2/METZ 05070067 The Kirkpatrick family (2001) A/929.2/KIRKPATRICK 05070068 History of John Foster, Eleanor Morrow, and descendants (1947) A/929.2/FOSTER 05070069 Wade descendants (Pinneo) (2000) A/929.2/WADE 05070070 Allen family (1998) A/929.2/ALLEN 05070071 Curtis family (1998) A/929.2/CURTIS 05070072 Reynolds family history (2002) A/929.2/REYNOLDS 07 – U.S./State censuses 07011840 Population schedules of the sixth census of the United States, 1840: Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1840 07011850 Population schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850: Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1850 07011860 Population schedules of the eighth census of the United States, 1860: Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1860 07011870 Populations schedules of the ninth census of the United States, 1870: Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1870 07021850 1850 Federal census of the United States, schedule III (Mortality): Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1850/1860 07021860 1860 Federal census of the United States, schedule III (Mortality): Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1850/1860 07021880 1880 Federal census of the United States, schedule V (Mortality): Illinois, Champaign County A/Microfilm/ILLINOIS/Census/1880 12 – Serial publications 1201 Preservation and Conservation Association newsletter A/ILLINOIS/(Champ) 1202 Champaign County Genealogical Society quarterly A/ILLINOIS/(Champ) 1203 Through the years: Afro-American history in Champaign County newsletter A/ILLINOIS/(Champ) 1204 The Heritage of Vermilion County A/ILLINOIS/(Verm) 1205 Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society A/ILLINOIS