South Suburban Genealogical
and Historical Society
Hazel Crest, Illinois

Serving south Cook and east Will counties, Illinois
    including Chicago's Roseland/Pullman neighborhoods

Established 1968

 

Internet Links

Please report any broken links or suggest new links to webmaster.

 

National Agencies  

National Archives Genealogy

National Archives-Great Lakes (Chicago)
7358 South Pulaski Road
Chicago, Illinois 60629-5898
(773) 948-9000

NARA - Order Online

Surname to Soundex Converter (determines Soundex code)

BLM Eastern States-Govt.Land Office

Railroad Retirement Board Genealogical Info

State and County Agencies  

Find-It Illinois (Illinois State Library and more)

Getting Started in Genealogy (Illinois Sec.of State)  

Illinois Dept of Public Health-Vital Records

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales

Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

Illinois State Archives   

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Video preview of Library and Museum.

Cook County Genealogy Online
Historical Cook County, Illinois
Vital Records

Cook County Building
118 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Vital Statistics, Randolph Street, Concourse
(312) 603-7790

Will County Clerk's Office
Will County Clerk
Main Office
302 N. Chicago Street
Joliet IL 60432
(815) 740-4615

Historical Societies

Chicago Historical Society

Chicago's Southeast Side

Illinois State Historical Society

Lemont Area Historical Society

Genealogical Societies, Groups

Board for Certification of Genealogists

British Interest (Genealogy) Group of Wisconsin and Illinois

Chicago Genealogical Society

Chicago History Museum 

Cook County, IL Genealogy Forum

Federation of Genealogical Societies

Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society

Illinois Genealogy Forum

Illinois State Genealogical Society

McLean County Genealogy Society

National Genealogical Society

Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society

Polish Genealogical Society of America

Tinley Moraine Genealogists

Will County, IL Genealogy Forum

GenWeb Links  

Cook County GenWeb

Illinois GenWeb

US GenWeb Project

Will County GenWeb

World GenWeb

Cemeteries

Find A Grave

Find Illinois Cemeteries

Graveyards of Chicago

Illinois Historic Cemetery Preservation Handbook (A guide to basic preservation)

Military Cemeteries

RecordsProject.com (Provides simple access to relevant information about state cemetery records)

St. Michael's Cemetery (The wave of the future in mapping cemeteries) 

Ethnic Research

Dutch/Netherlands
Genlias

Babel Fish Translation Translates several foreign languages 
to English or English to foreign languages.

Google Language Tools -
Convert to or translate from a
foreign language

UK and Ireland
Genuki

Other Archives & Libraries

FamilySearch - LDS Church
402 Longwood Drive
Chicago Heights, IL
(708) 756-1280
(2 blocks west of
Ashland; 2 blocks north
of Joe Orr Road)

5200 S .University Ave.
Chicago, IL
(773) 493-1830

13150 S. 88th Ave.
Orland Park, IL
(708) 361-5474
655 Springfield Ave.
Joliet, IL
(815) 725-8621

300 Wirth Rd
(near Cline Ave.)
Griffith, IN
 (219) 838-8189

503 Burlington Beach Rd
Valparaiso, IN
(219) 464-4411

Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago IL 60610-3305
(312) 943-9090

Chicago Public Library
Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
Chicago IL 60605
(312) 747-4300 general info

Allen County (Ft. Wayne) Public Library
900 Webster St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46801
(219) 421-1200

General Information, Misc. Sites

A Look at Cook (Genealogy In Cook County Illinois) 

The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library website info page.

Ancestry.com

Archaic Medical Terms

Calumet Heritage Partnership

Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau

Chicago's Steel Heritage Project

Citation Machine (Prepare a citation)

Cook County Assessor (Photos of property in Cook Co.)

Cook County, Illinois Marriage Records 1871-1920
Family Search website

Cook County Genealogy Forum (Searchable)

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Early Chicago

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Everton's Genealogical Helper

Family Chronicle

Family History Place (Our Mission is to make genealogy research easier by providing a simple to use website that helps you to do your research and get results quickly.)

FGS Society Hall (find a genealogical society)

Firstmom's Genealogy Resources (Immigrant Ship Passenger Lists & Manifests)

Free Genealogy Search Help for Google

Genealogy Blog (A ton of interesting reading)

Genealogy Forms (Free Download)

Genealogy Gateway

Genealogy Home Page

Genealogy in Cook County Illinois

Genealogy Insider (Monthly blog)

Genealogy Resources on the Internet (A comprehensive list of
world wide Internet Links) 

Genealogy Trails (Cook County links to on-line data)

General Information about Cook County

General Information about Will County

Heritage Quest

Illinois Trails (Will County History and Genealogy) (Available for adoption)

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Northwest Indiana Concert Association/Munster

Northwest Indiana Woodworkers Association

Obtaining EDs for the
1930 Census in One Step

The Olive Tree Genealogy: Obsolete Occupations

Passenger Lists on the Internet

Perpetual calendar (find day of the week for any date)

Prairie Farmers Directory of Farmers and Breeders - 
Will and Southern Cook Counties, Illinois
 

Roots Television (Watch genealogy related programs on your computer)

RootsWeb.com  

RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees 

Social Security Death Index

Stephen P. Morse (A potpourri of immigration, census, and vital records)

Surname Navigator (genealogy mega search engine)

Thornton Township High School Alumni 

United States Street Maps

U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971

USA People Search (Big List of Genealogy Links)

Where is this Town Located?

Will County Genealogy Forum (Searchable)

Pullman/Roseland-Related Sites

Historic Pullman Foundation 

Roseland, Chicago, Illinois

Historical Information

History of Riverdale, Illinois 1835 - 2008 

Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago

Research in Other States

Archives of Maryland Online

Michigan eLibrary

Northwest Indiana Research

The Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records  

Research Outlines for all U.S. States  

Tennessee State Library and Archives

University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center

The Library of Virginia

Copyright 2010, South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
 3000 West 170th Place, Hazel Crest, IL.  60429 - 1174
Telephone: (708) 335-3340
E-mail to: ssghs@usa.net

Last update 7 August 2010