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The following list of microfilms on Macoupin County were microfilmed by the LDS Church of Salt Lake City.

Inventory of the county archives of Illinois, no. 56, Macoupin County (Carlinville) / by Works Projects Administration. 212 leaves. FILM 0908550, item 1.

History of Macoupin County, Illinois, and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. 287 p., FILM 0825591, also another filming FILM 1000501, item 4.

Portrait and biographical record of Macoupin County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, governors of the state and of the presidents of the United States. 910 p, FILM 0924426, item 1, also another filming FILM 1000501, item 5.

Loveless family grave in Macoupin Co., Illinois / surveyed by Joyce E. Gardner and Rose Marie E. Wilson. FILM 0982041, item 5.

Macoupin County, Illinois cemeteries, Work Projects Administration, 1939-1940. FILM 1689022.

Bible and cemetery records/compiled by Elizabeth S. Payne. Contains miscellaneous family bible records; and cemetery inscriptions from Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Knox, Sullivan, Washington, and Scott counties, and other miscellaneous genealogical and church records. Also includes Bacon family cemetery, Macoupin County, Illinois. FILM 1412210, item 4-5.

Tombstone revelations in Macoupin County, Illinois/compiled by Macoupin County Historical Society committee. Contents: v. 1. Scottville, North Palmyra, North Otter, Virden, Barr, South Palmyra, South Otter and Nilwood townships - v. 2. Bird and Western Mound townships - v. 3. Brushy Mound, Honey Point and Shaws Point townships - v. 4. Polk and Chesterfield townships - v. 5. Hillyard and Shipman townships - v. 6. Carlinville Township. FILM 1307614, item 18.

Bunker Hill Catholic Cemetery, Macoupin, Illinois, cemetery inscriptions/surveyed by Rose Marie E. Wilson and Joyce E. Gardner. FILM 0924914, item 7.

9. Tine Sawyer Cemetery, Macoupin County, Illinois cemetery inscriptions /compiled by Rose Marie E. Wilson and Joyce E. Gardner. FILM 0924488, item 3.

BOOK AREA 977.383, X2us, 1840 United States census of Macoupin County, Illinois/copied from microfilm by Sharron K. Sherman. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, X2h, Abstract of the 1850 United States census, Macoupin County, Illinois and surname index/transcribed in printed form by and under the direction of Irvin David Hess. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County, Illinois, 1860 federal census/compiled, edited, and published by Littleton P. Bradley. FILM 1598082, item 7.

BOOK AREA 977.383, X2z, Macoupin County, Illinois 1870 federal census/compiled by Iris Zimmer and Cynthia Leonard. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, K2c, Charity Baptist Church of Macoupin County, Illinois. Wanda Warkins Allers and Eileen Lynch Gochanour. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, K2e, Everly Chapel church records, 1887-1928, Macoupin County, Illinois. Eileen Gochanour. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County (Illinois). County Commissioner's Court. Records, 1829-1849. FILM 1689021, item 3-5.

BOOK AREA 977.383/S1, H2o, Old settler stories of Staunton, Illinois & vicinity, vol. I : abstracted from the Staunton star-times, 1911, 1912 & 1914 compiled by the Macoupin County Genealogical Society. Not available on film. In the library at Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County searcher : quarterly newsletter, Macoupin County Genealogical Society. - Vol. 9, no. 1, (July 1988) Vol. 9-v. 10, no. 2 (Oct. 1989), FILM 1927530, item 14-19.

South central searcher : quarterly newsletter, Staunton Area Genealogical Society. - Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1980)-Vol. 8, no. 4 (Apr. 1988), 8 v. Vol. 1, no. 4 was not filmed and probably doesn't exist since there was no interruption in publishing. Description based on: v. 5, no. 4 (April 1985). Vol. 1-v. 5, no. 3 (Jan. 1985) - FILM 1927529, item 25-42.Vol. 5, no. 4 (Apr. 1985)-v. 8, no. 4 (Apr. 1988) - FILM 1927530.

BOOK AREA 977.383/S1, D25so, Index to volume one, South central searcher, Staunton Area Genealogical Society, issues 1-3, July & October 1980, January 1981 / indexed and compiled by Cindy Leonard. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.356, H2f, Sugar Creek, life on the Illinois prairie/John Mack Faragher. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

History of Macoupin County, Illinois, and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. FILM 0825591, also another filming FILM 1000501, item 4.

BOOK AREA 977.383, H2w, A natural history of Macoupin County, Illinois, a collection of articles on historical aspects of natural history of Macoupin County which originally appeared in "The Macoupin County enquirer" and the "Carlinville Democrat" ; Carlinville & Macoupin County sesquicentennial, 1829-1979/by William E. Werner, Jr. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Q AREA 977.383, E7m, Atlas of Macoupin Co. and the state of Illinois to which is added an atlas of the United States, maps of the hemispheres, etc, plat book of Macoupin Co. Illinois, 1893-4. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Land records, 1831-1918. Illinois, County Court (Macoupin County). original records in the Macoupin County Courthouse, Carlinville, IL.

Grantee index - FILM 1320270
1 -1831-1851
2 -1849-1857 (A-L)

2 - (L-Z) FILM 1320271
3 - 1857-1863
4 - 1863-1865
5 - 1866-1868 (A-J)

5 - (K-Z) FILM 1320272
6 - 1869-1872
7 - 1873-1876
8 - 1877-1879 (A-D)

8 - (E-Z) FILM 1320273
9 - 1880-1882
10 -1883-1885

11 -1886-1888 FILM 1320274
Grantor index
1 - 1832-1848
1 - 1832-1848

2 - 1851-1858 FILM 1320275
3 - 1857-1863
4 - 1860-1865 (A-M)

4 - (S-Z) FILM 1320276
5 - 1866-1868
6 - 1869-1872
1873-1876 (A-H)

7 - (H-Z) FILM 1320277
8 - 1877-1879
9 - 1880-1882

10 -1883-1885 FILM 1320278
11 -1886-1888
Deed record
A - 1829-1832
B - 1832-1834 (to p. 338)

B - (from pg. 339) FILM 1320279
C - 1834-1835
D - 1835-1838
E - 1835-1839 (to pg. 195)

E - (from pg. 196) FILM 1320280
F - 1836-1838
G -1836-1839 (to pg. 381)

G - (from pg. 382) FILM 1320281
H - 1838-1841
I-J -1841-1843 (to pg. 595)

I-J - (from pg. 596) FILM 1320282
K - 1839-1842
L - 1841-1845

M - 1841-1844 FILM 1320283
N - 1844-1847 (to pg. 189)

N - (from pg. 190) FILM 1320284
O - 1845-1846
P - 1846-1847 (to pg. 219)

P - (from pg. 220) FILM 1320285
Q - 1847-1849
R - 1847-1850 (to pg. 179)

R - (from pg. 180) FILM 1320286
S - 1847-1851
T - 1850 (to pg. 119)

T - (from pg. 120) FILM 1320287
U - 1850-1851

V - 1852-1853 FILM 1320288
W - 1851-1852
X - 1851-1852 FILM 1320289
Y - 1852-1854

Z - 1853-1854 FILM 1320290
AA - 1853-1855 (to pg. 679)

AA - (from pg. 680) FILM 1320291
BB - 1854-1859
CC - 1852-1854 (to pg. 199)

CC - (from pg. 200) FILM 1320292
DD - 1854-1855

EE - 1855 FILM 1320293
FF - 1856 (to pg. 569)

FF - (from pg. 570) FILM 1320294
GG - 1855-1856
HH - 1856

II - 1856 FILM 1320295
JJ - (missing)
KK - 1856-1859

LL - 1856-1858 FILM 1320296
MM - 1857

NN - 1856-1857 FILM 1320297
OO - 1857-1858 (to pg. 419)

OO - (from pg. 420) FILM 1320298
PP - 1856-1858
QQ - 1857-1858 (to pg. 539)

QQ - (from pg. 540) FILM 1320299
RR - 1858-1861
SS - 1858-1865 (to pg. 179)

SS - (from pg. 180) FILM 1320300
UU - 1858-1859

VV - 1859-1860 FILM 1320301
WW - 1860-1861

XX - 1861-1862 FILM 1320302
YY - 1862-1863 (to pg. 589)

YY - (from pg. 590) FILM 1320303
ZZ - 1861-1867

AB - 1861-1863 FILM 1320396
AE - 1863-1864

AE - (from pg. 588) FILM 1320397
AF - 1863-1864
AG - 1863-1864

AH - 1864-1864 FILM 1320377
AI - 1864-1865

AJ (missing) FILM 1320378
AL - 1864-1865
AM - 1865-1865
AN - 1865-1865 FILM 1320379
AO - 1865-1866

AP - 1866-1867 FILM 1320380
AQ - 1865-1870

AR - 1865-1866 FILM 1320381
AS - 1866-1866

AT - 1866-1870 FILM 1320382
AU - 1866-1868

AV - 1866-1871 FILM 1320383
AW -1867-1869

AX - 1866-1867 FILM 1320384
AY - 1868-1870

AZ - 1867-1868 FILM 1320385
BA - 1867-1872 (p. 54-320 blank)
BC - 1867-1868 (to pg. 229)

BC - (from pg. 230) FILM 1320386
BD - 1868-1869
BE - 1870-1871 (to pg. 175)

BE - (from pg. 176) FILM 1320387
BF - 1869-1870
BH - 1868-1874 (to pg. 209)

BH - (from pg. 210) FILM 1320388
BI - 1871-1872
BJ - (missing)
BM - 1871-1874
BP - 1870-1872 (to pg. 181)

BP - (from p. 180) FILM 1320389
BQ - 1872-1873
BR - 1872-1874

BR - (from pg. 177) FILM 1320390
BT - 1872-1905
BU - 1873-1879 (to pg. 345)

BU - (from pg. 346) FILM 1320391
BV - 1872-1877
BW - 1874-1879 (to pg. 315)

BW - (from pg. 316) FILM 1320392
BX - 1874-1884
BZ - 1874-1895 (to pg. 345)

BZ - (from pg. 346) FILM 1320393
CB - 1875-1876
CC - 1834-1835

CD - 1875-1881 FILM 1320394
CE - 1875-1918
CF - 1876-1888

CG - 1876-1887 FILM 1320395
CH - 1876-1877
CJ - (missing)
CK - 1877-1888 (to pg. 199)

CK - (from pg. 200) FILM 1320472
CL - 1877-1884
CM - 1877-1878 (to pg. 345)

CM - (from pg. 346) FILM 1320473
CN - 1878-1879
CP - 1878-1879 (to pg. 475)

CP - (from pg. 476) FILM 1320474
CT - 1879-1880 (to pg. 587)

CT - (from pg. 588) FILM 1320475
CW - 1880-1883
CY - 1880-1881

CX - 1880-1880 FILM 1320476

DB 1881-1881 FILM 1320477
DC - 1881-1882

DF - 1881-1883 FILM 1320478
DI - 1881-1882

DJ - (missing) FILM 1320479
DK - 1882-1884
DL - 1883-1886
DM - 1882-1884 (to pg. 117)

DM - (from pg. 118) FILM 1320480
DN - 1885-1909
DQ - 1883-1885
DR - 1884-1886 (to pg. 215)

DR - (from pg. 216) FILM 1320481
DS - 1882-1888
DT - 1881-1889 (to pg. 299)

DT - (from pg. 300) FILM 1320482
DU - 1884-1886
DV - 1885-1888 (to pg. 399)

DV - (from pg. 399) FILM 1320483, item 1

BOOK AREA 977.383, V2Ác, The Macoupin connection, volume 1 / compiled by Cindy Leonard. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County, Illinois marks and brands, 1829-1880. FILM 1689021, item 2.

BOOK AREA 977.383, R2m, Macoupin County, Illinois original purchasers of land. L.P. Bradley, 1985, Frances Ingmire. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, E7ma, Land atlas and plat book, Macoupin County, Illinois, 1987. Rockford Map Publishers (Rockford, Illinois). Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Q AREA 977.383, E7m, Atlas of Macoupin Co. and the state of Illinois to which is added an atlas of the United States, maps of the hemispheres, etc, plat book of Macoupin Co. Illinois, 1893-4. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County, Illinois register of physicians and accouchers, 1877-1915. FILM 1689023, item 4.

Macoupin County, Illinois militia roll record, 1861-1863. FILM 1689021, item 1.

Naturalization related material, 1849-1887. Macoupin County (Illinois). Clerk of the Circuit Court. FILM 1689023, item 1.

Virden, Illinois and vicinity obituaries / compiled, edited and published by Littleton P. Bradley. The Virden Reporter & the Girard Gazette were used as sources. Includes surname indexes. Contents: v. 1. 1881-1885 -- v. 2. 1886-1889. Vols. 1-2 on FILM 1750806, item 20-21.

Funeral notices, Illinois, ca. 1900-1950. Microreproduction of 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 cards containing Illinois funeral notices most of whose dates are in the 1920s and 1930s. FILM 1421899, item 2.

BOOK AREA 977.383, V4j, Necrologies from the area of Macoupin County, Illinois for the period of ca. 1905 - 1960. Johnson, Henry William, 1885-1960. 77, xviii leaves. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.3, V4o, Obituaries from the Virden recorder, Virden, Illinois, 1985. Wanda Warkins Allers and Eileen Lynch Gochanour, [198-]. 147, 11 p. Facsims. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Q AREA 977.383, E7m, Atlas of Macoupin Co. and the state of Illinois to which is added an atlas of the United States, maps of the hemispheres, etc, plat book of Macoupin Co. Illinois, 1893-4. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Searching the records : begins with the Gereral Assembly of 1828-9, at Vandalia, Illinois : that year Macoupin County got government life : from this time to the end of the year 1869 the records have been searched for the truth of this book : this covers the construction of the tree courthouses / by John Moran. FICHE 6071672, 3 microfiches, RESTRICTIONS No circulation to Family History Centers.

Illinois. County Court (Macoupin County). Probate records, 1835-1939.

Probate index A 1835-1880 FILM 1320087
B - 1881-1910
C - 1911-1926

Will record A 1835-1867 FILM 1320088
B - 1867-1881
C - 1881-1890 (to pg. 160)

C (from pg. 161) FILM 1320089
D - 1889-1896
E - 1895-1903 (to pg. 254)

E (from pg. 255) FILM 1320158
F - 1903-1909
G - 1898-1911

H - 1909-1915 FILM 1320159
I - 1911-1918
J - 1915-1918 (to pg. 128)

J (from pg. 129) FILM 1320160
K - 1918-1922
L - 1922-1925 (to pg. 74)

L (from pg. 75) - 1320161
County Court probate orders
A - 1849-1853

Probate record 1 (miscellaneous) 1917-1922 FILM 1320162
A - (missing)
B - 1877-1923
C - 1892-1908

D - 1906-1922 FILM 1320163
E - 1919-1926
Executors record
A (missing)
B - 1859-1880 (to pg. 241)

B (from pg. 242) FILM 1320164
C - 1879-1892
D - 1892-1900 (to pg. 245)

D (from pg. 246) FILM 1320165
E - 1899-1905
F - 1905-1911 (to pg. 239)

F (from pg. 240) FILM 1320166
G - 1911-1916
H -1916-1920 (to pg. 249)

H (from pg. 250) FILM 1320167
I - 1920-1924
Administrators record
A - 1849-1865

B - 1858-1867 FILM 1320168
no # 1874-1879
no # 1875-1883
D - 1874-1879 (to pg. 138)

D (from pg. 139) FILM 1320169
E - 1879-1887
F - 1887-1895 (to pg. 159)

F (from pg. 160) FILM 1320170
G - 1893-1897
H - 1897-1902 (to pg. 178)

H (from pg. 179) FILM 1320171
I - 1902-1906
J - 1906-1909 (to pg. 209)

J (from pg. 210) FILM 1320172
K - 1909-1912
L - 1912-1915 (to pg. 239)

L (from pg. 240) FILM 1320173
M - 1915-1918
N - 1918-1919 (to pg. 238)

N (from pg. 239) FILM 1320174
O - 1919-1922
P - 1922-1924 (to pg. 243)

P (from pg. 244) FILM 1320175
Guardian record
A - 1849-1859
B - 1875-1904
C - 1870-1877
D - 1879-1889 (to pg. 59)

D (from pg. 60) FILM 1320176
E - 1889-1899
F - 1896-1903 (to pg. 143)

F - (from pg. 144) FILM 1320177
G - 1915-1917

H - 1903-1910 FILM 1320178
I - 1872-1893

J - 1917-1923 FILM 1320268
Guardian and conservator record
B - 1904-1939 (to pg. 393)

B (from pg. 394) FILM 1320269

Patent rights, 1867-1873. Macoupin County (Illinois). Clerk of the County Court. FILM 1689023, item 3.

Macoupin County, Illinois school schedules, 1844, 1896. FILM 1689023, item 2.

BOOK AREA 977.383, V22A, Macoupin County, Illinois death records index, volume I, (1877-1878) / compiled by Cynthia Leonard and Mary McKenzie. Not available on Film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, V2Ae, Macoupin County, Illinois marriages 2 Jan 1855 - 31 Dec 1857 : volume 5 /compiled by Cynthia Leonard. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.38, V28A, Miscellaneous birth & marriage records of early Macoupin & Madison County, Illinois residents / compiled by Cynthia Leonard and Verla Leonard. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

BOOK AREA 977.383, V2A, Macoupin County, Illinois marriage records index / compiled by L. Charles and Cynthia Leonard. Contents: v. 1. July 6, 1829-December 22, 1838 - v. 2. December 29,1838-January 1, 1846 - v. 3. January 6, 1846-November 13, 1851 - v. 4. 15 Oct. 1851-1854 - v. 5. 2 Jan 1855-1857. Not available on film. At the library in Salt Lake City.

Macoupin County (Illinois). County Clerk. Birth records, 1859-1903 ; Delayed births, 1871-1940.

Birth index FILM 1320483
v. 1 - 1859-1882, item 2-5.
v. 2 - 1882-1889
v. 3 - 1889-1903
Birth record
v. 1 - 1878-1879

v. 1 - 1879-1882 FILM 1320484
v. 2 - 1882-1889

v. 2 - 1882-1889 FILM 1320485
v. 3 - 1889-1903

not available FILM 1320486

v. C - 1872-1900 FILM 1320487
v. D - 1883-1900
v. E - 1881-1931

v. E - 1873-1900 FILM 1320488
v. F - 1880-1913
v. G - 1873-1940
v. H - 1897-1933

Death index, 1878-1910 ; Death record, 1877-1901. Macoupin County (Illinois). County Clerk. FILM 1320489, item 1-2.

Macoupin County (Illinois). County Clerk. Marriage index, 1829-1900 ; Marriage record, 1829-1900.

Marriage index FILM 1320489
v. A - 1829-1871, item 3-4.

v. B - 1870-1879 FILM 1320490
v. C - 1891-1900
v. 1 - 1878-1891
Marriage record
v. 1-3 - 1829-1849

v. 3-5 - 1849-1877 FILM 1320491
Register of marriage
v. 1 - 1877-1889

v. 1-2 - 1877-1900 FILM 1320492

Virden, Illinois and vicinity marriages and anniversaries / compiled, edited and published by Littleton P. Bradley. The Girard Gazette was used to extract information & it appears that the Virden Reporter was used also. Contents: v. 1. 1881-1885 -- v. 2. 1886-Jan. 1890. Vols. 1-2, FILM 1750806, item 32-33.


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