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Schuyler County Illinois Genealogy |
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Schuyler County was created on January 13, 1825 and was formed from unorganized land and Pike County. Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in: Pike County (1821-1825), Madison County (1812-1821) and St. Clair County (1795-1812). It is named in honor of Philip Schuyler, member of the Continental Congress and Senator from New York.
The County Seat is Rushville. Prior County Seats was Beardstown, a site near present-day Pleasant View (1825-1826), and Rushville – Originally named Rushton: changed to Rushville on April 24, 1826 (1826-Present).
Excuse the mess! I am reworking the entire website of 2,500 pages and as I go along, links may not work properly or I I may remove links. The information is still here, though, and can be found in the search on the right. Thanks for understanding!
Welcome to the Schuyler County ILGenWeb Project website, my name is Dennis Partridge and presently I am the county coordinator for Schuyler County, Illinois. The USGenWeb project is seeking new volunteers to assist it in developing state, county, and town project sites. If you have some spare time and are interested in history and genealogy and like helping others find their ancestors, please let them know. See here for more information!
A County website such as this is made up of many different volunteers who have provided genealogy data, sometime countywide, but most of the time specific to their family research within Schuyler County. It is these contributions that have made this county website what it is today. Do you have anything you can contribute? If so, please let me know using the contact me at the top right of every page and I’ll help get you started on the process.
If you see broken links or other problems please let me know.
Finding Information
This is a very large website with lots of information. Use the links on the page to find topics of interest or use the search engine to find all of the information available about a specific person or place.
Alphabetical List
- Bible Pages
- Births
- Biographies
- Cemeteries
- Census
- Church Records
- Courthouse Records
- Deaths
- Family Groups Sheets
- Family Trees & Branches
- Family Web Pages
- Histories
- Land Records
- Letters from the Past
- Lookups
- Marriages
- Military
- Newspapers
- Obituaries
- Pension List, 1883
- Photographs
- Prairie Farmer Directory, 1918
- Queries
- Research
- School Souvenirs
- Schuyler County Jail Museum and Genealogical Center
- Surnames
- This & That
- Tombstones
- Township Highlights
- Township Map Index
- Wills, Estates & Probates
Counties adjacent to Schuyler County: McDonough County (north), Fulton County (northeast), Mason County (east), Cass County (southeast), Brown County (south), Adams County (southwest), Hancock County (northwest).
Schuyler County Townships: Bainbridge, Birmingham, Brooklyn, Browning, Buena Vista, Camden, Frederick, Hickory, Huntsville, Littleton, Oakland, Rushville, Woodstock Township
Cities, Towns and Communities: Browning, Camden, Littleton, Rushville.