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Illinois Genealogy Resources

Chicago and Cook County

Cemeteries

• Altenheim Old People's Home Cemetery, Forest Park. Saving Graves
   
• American History and Genealogy Project Illinois Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project.
   

• The Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Cemetery information

• Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Bremen Township. Saving Graves

• Barrington Area Cemeteries. Barrington Public Library.

• Bloomvale Cemetery, Chicago Heights.  Saving Graves.

• Bohemian National Cemetery Burials, 1888-1892  The Chicago Genealogical Society has published six volumes of burials (1877-1902) at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. The second volume is currently out of print but you can search our online index for burials from 1888-1892. The index gives burial year, burial month, name of the deceased, and the issue date of an obituary in the Czech-language newspaper "Denni Hlasatel".

• Cemeteries of Cook County, Illinois. ComPortOne.

• Cemeteries of Cook County, Illinois. Interment.net

• Cemetery Location Project. Illinois State Genealogical Society.

• Cemetery Records at the Newberry Library.

  • Bohemian National Cemetery. Call # Local History Ref F548.61 .B64 (2nd floor open shelf). Genealogical request forms at 2nd floor reference desk.

  • Cook County Honor Roll, 1956. Veterans' graves. Call # Local History Ref E181 .I34 1956 (2nd floor open shelf).

  • The Roll of Honor: ...Soldiers, Sailors and Marines...buried in the cemeteries of Cook County. Call # E494 .L67 1922 and E494 .L67 1922 Index.

  • Norwood Park Home Cemetery, in Chicago, Illinois. Call # Local History Ref F548.25 .N69 1997 (2nd floor open shelf).

  • Records of Waldheim and Forest Home. Organized by date of burial. Call # Local History Ref Microfilm 1215 (2nd floor open shelf).

  • Union Ridge Cemetery (6700 West Higgins). Call # Local History Ref F548.25 .U55 1995 (2nd floor open shelf).

  • Wunders. Indexed transcriptions of gravestones. Call # Local History Ref F548.61 .W85 (2nd floor open shelf). Unindexed ledger books, call # Local History Ref Microfilm 1261 (2nd floor open shelf). Ask at 2nd floor reference desk for guide.

• Chicago Catholic Cemeteries.

• Chicago Cemetery Photos. These photographs are of graves in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and a few surrounding areas.

• Chicago Cemetery Photos.  Site to volunteer to photograph graves.

• Chicago Cemetery Records, 1847-1863: Sexton's Reports and Certificates, Treasurer Receipts, Deeds, and Undertakers' Reports. Chicago (P.O. Box 1160 60690-1160): Chicago Genealogical Society, 2008.

• Confederate Soldiers Buried in Cook County. Genealogy Trails.

• Cook County Cemeteries. From the Illinois State Genealogical Society.

• Cook County Cemeteries. ILGenWeb.

• Cook Country, Illinois Cemeteries.  I Dream of Genealogy.

• Cook County Cemetery Records. ILGenWeb.

• Cook County IL GenWeb Cemeteries.

• Genealogical Research at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.

• Graveyards of Chicago. Cook County, Illinois cemeteries.

• Hucke, Matt, and Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 1999.

• List of Older Chicago Cemeteries. Kathy Hahn.

• The Newberry Library holds microfilms of Waldheim, Forest Home, and Wunders cemeteries, where many German-Americans are buried.

• Oak Woods Cemetery. Tour Black Chicago.

• SS. Cyril and Methodius Cemetery.

• St. Johannes Cemetery Alliance, Bensenville. Saving Graves.

• St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Schaumburg, Illinois. Transcribed by Elaine Lorinczi on Sept. 27, 2002.

• The Tombstone Transcription Project: Cook County.

• Walter Haertel Monument Records 1903 to 1923.

• Wunders Cemetery, Chicago - a Chicago Genealogical Society publication (Ancestry database that requires payment). Wunders Cemetery was originally known as First German Lutheran or Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery. In 1912, it was incorporated as the German Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Association. On 19 October 1919 it was renamed Wunders Cemetery Association after Heinrich Wunder, pastor for over fifty years of First St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. They operated Wunders Cemetery jointly with First Immanuel Lutheran Church, until recently when the former became the sole trustee.