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Illinois County Court, Probate, Tax and Other Miscellaneous Records
Illinois Court and Probate Records
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The Illinois General Assembly granted probate and circuit courts jurisdiction to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court in 1819.
The earliest court records for Illinois counties created after 1818 are invariably records of the circuit court. Chancery, civil, and criminal cases are usually filed together at first.” For counties created during the territorial period, the following gives the type of their earliest court: St. Clair: Court of the District of Cahokia; Randolph: French Provincial Council; Madison, Gallatin, and Johnson: court of common pleas; Edwards, White, Jackson, Pope, Monroe, Crawford, and Bond: county court; Franklin, Union and Washington: justices' court. Jackson, Cook and Franklin counties lost early court records in fires. Choose from the counties below to view the county information.
Wills, administrations, and probate matters are at the office of the circuit court. Deeds, mortgages, and leases are the responsibility of the recorder of deeds. In mailing requests to any Illinois county office, use the title of the appropriate county officer and “County Courthouse,” with the address listed in the county pages linked below.
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- On-Site County Court Records Search - Find nearly any Illinois court record online! Many court records are not digitized yet, which signifies the only way to obtain these records is by visiting the actual courthouses. Someone from our network of court-runners will go retrieve the records and then send you the outcomes. Average response time is 38 hours. Illinois Civil Records include Lawsuits, Bankruptcies, Liens and judgments, Marriage/divorce judicial proceeding, Child custody, Civil rights violations ands Other. Illinois Criminal Records include Violent offenses, Theft and robbery, DUI/DWI's, Drugs and alcohol, Sexual crimes, Some traffic violations, Behavioral.
- History of Circuit Court/Circuit Clerk - Illinois State Archives
- Illinois Court Books at Amazon.com
- Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1720-1865: This database is an index of servitude records held by the Illinois State Archives. It contains the names of over 2000 persons who were bought, sold, or emancipated between 1720 and 1865.
- Search Immigration & Naturalization Records from All States
- Search Court Records From All States
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- Search County Criminal Records with a Criminal Background Check
- Search for Registered Sex Offenders in your local Area
- History of Probate Jurisdiction - Illinois State Archives
- Research In Probate Records - from The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy.
- How to Locate Printed Probate Records
- Advantages of Printed Probate Records
- Limitations of Printed Probate Records
- Illinois Probate Books at Amazon.com
Illinois Land Records
See Also Research In State Land Records
In some counties there are county recorders to register all property transactions. Smaller counties give the responsibility to the county clerk. Land records usually have grantor and grantee indexes, with property records beginning with the creation of the county.
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- Illinois Land Books at Amazon.com
- Search Land Patents at Gov-Records.com
- Search Property Records at Gov-Records.com
- Illinois Public Land Purchase Records: The records in this database were transferred to the Illinois State Archives and detail the sale of over 54,000 square miles of public land.
- Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database which is a searchable database of more than 500,000 first sales of the public domain by the federal government to individuals (R.G. 952.000) . Subsequent sales of land are recorded in deed records.
- BLM Land Records - covers the State of Illinois. Many pioneers and settelers bought land from the government instead of individuals.
- Land Records from All States
Illinois Tax Records
See Also Illinois Tax Records Description
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