Welcome

Update - 18 Jan 2025
My name is Kimberly Morgan and I'm the new County Coordinator
for Effingham County. Please check back soon - this site is under construction
Comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged.

Your Illinois Team (ILGenweb)
For questions regarding Effingham County - Kimberly Morgan
For questions/concerns regarding ILGenWeb
Your ILGenWeb State Coordinator is Sandy (Whalen) Bauer
The Assistant SC Team is Cheryl Rothwell and Morgan Johnson

How you can Help
Effingham County NEEDS VOLUNTEERS to do lookups. Volunteering your time and talents
by submitting family surnames, obits, news articles that you clipped, transcribing census, submitting
Family Group Sheets or by providng your favorite stories, recipes or photos. If you own or have access
to an Effingham County reference books (such as census, cemetery, marriage, obituaries,
newspaper abstracts, etc.) and would be willing to do lookups for other
Effingham County researchers contact County Coordinator.

(I'm willing to do lookups online, but I don't live in the state)

EFFINGHAM COUNTY SPECIAL EVENTS
Information needed and welcomed!!!!!!!

If you know of anything that is genealogy or history related that you would like included here, please contact me. This means genealogy workshops, genealogy seminars, family reunions, school reunions, family anniversaries (particularly 25th and 50th anniversaries), church picnics, genealogy software classses, (anything related to genealogy), genealogy society meetings, genealogy software user group meetings, historical tours, etc.

Send me your information (use the link below) so that I can add it. Don't you think this would be a good way to reach those long-lost cousins? Perhaps they would attend......(it's worth a try, don't you think?)

Submit Queries

If you change email addresses without notifying me, the chances are very good that your entire query will be deleted. In that case, you must resubmit your query with a current email address.

Read Queries

Good Stuff About Effingham County

Cemeteries and Private Burials
Tips for Research When you've reached the proverbial dead end.
Reference & Lookup Volunteers
Includes information about the Effingham County Genealogical and Historical Society and their publications for sale.
Link to ECGHS membership form.

Please note that even though I include information about the ECGHS and am a member, I am not the contact person for the Society. You will need to contact them directly (information on page). I include this information about the Society as a courtesy.

Cemetery books for sale from the Effingham County DAR chapter are also listed on this page.

Did You Know ...
An Alphabetical List of Cemeteries (including nearest town and the township); Tips and Hints to Make Your Research Easier; Meanings of Old Tombstone Carvings; Importance of Military Records, etc. Don't miss the work-in-progress list of Civil War Veterans (both North & South) buried in Effingham County.

Then and Now.....
Don't overlook this section, which contains various tidbits of information that may break down some of the bricks in your research brick wall. (e.g., Diseases/Causes of Death; Occupations; Time Line for Effingham County; and The New Time Line for Wars, Epidemics and Natural Disasters, Effingham County Poor Farm, etc.)

Effingham.com
Civil War Regiments/Companies of Illinois
Effingham County in the Civil War
Political Graveyard - Effingham County
Perkins' History, Lore and Maps of Effingham County
Effingham County and National Road Museum
Veterans Affairs National Cemetery System
Obituaries (Link to Effingham Daily News) Recent Effingham County Obituaries

USGenWeb Sites for Surrounding Counties

Clay County, Illinois
Cumberland County, Illinois
Fayette County, Illinois
Jasper County, Illinois
Shelby County, Illinois
Illinois County Boundaries 1790 - Present

Some Other Good Genealogy WWW Links

ILGenWeb Map
USGenWeb Project
ILGenWeb Project
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
Illinois On-Line Data Bases
Illinois State-Wide Index to Marriages
Illinois City-County Locator
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Inflation Calculator (calculates what land purchased in the past is worth today)
Illinois County Boundaries 1790 - Present
ILGenWeb Map
Illinois in the Civil War
Illinois State Genealogical Society
Illinois Public Domain Land Sales
Illinois Section of USGenWeb Archives
Color Landform Atlas: Illinois
Ordering Illinois Vital Records - U.S. Vital Records Info.

Links to websites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not emply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project

For corrections or additions, please contact me: Kimberly Morgan