Genealogy Collection

The Genealogy Collection Includes:

  • Coles County History Books: 
-Coles County History Book, 1879, separate index
-Portraits and Bigraphical Album of Coles, 1887, indexed
-Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and Coles County HIstory, 1906
-Coles County History, 1876-1976, separate index
  • Cemetery records, Prairie Sleeps, four volumes, indexed
  • Coles County History Books:
  • Federal Census, Coles County, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
  • Coles County marriage indexes, 1830-1929
  • Coles County birth and death records, 1878-1915, in addition to delayed bith records and coroner's. (These are not the actual certificates, they are a list of births and deaths.)
  • City directories for Charleston and Mattoon.  Various years.
  • Family files and family books.
  • Charleston Newspapers 1895 to current and some earlier misc. Mattoon 1860 to Aug. 1949 and Oakland May 1896 to July 1951 and Lerna March 1918 to Dec. 1946.