The KYGenWeb Project
In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. This project became known as KYGENWEB.
The USGenWeb Project
In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to expand the project to include all states. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for each state page. If the state in which you are interested does not have a page and you wish to be responsible for it, or if you would like to contribute your data or create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining your state page. If you would like to create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining your state page (see USGenWeb for names and addresses)
The WorldGenWeb Project
Also in June, just 2 weeks or so after the beginning of The USGenWeb project, the WorldGenWeb project was begun, and there are already several other countries involved in the project. Volunteers are still needed for many of the countries. If you are interested in hosting a country, please visit the WorldGenWeb Project for details.
The USGenWeb Archives
The USGenWeb Archive was developed and implemented in July 1996, as a place to present actual transcriptions of public domain records on the Internet. This huge undertaking is the cooperative effort of volunteers who either have electronically formatted files on census records, marriage bonds, wills, and other public documents, or are willing to transcribe this information to contribute. If you have anything to contribute, please contact the coordinator listed on the State Table page. Please read the Guidelines for file contributions before submitting records. IL's Archive Page
The ILGenWeb Project
Illinois USGenWeb was originally started in June 1996 by Melissa Calhoun. On December 18, 1996, Susan Reed-Tortorelli took over the reigns as the State Coordinator and by the time she retired on April 17, 2000, ILGenWeb had 953,025 visitors to the state pages along with thousands more who go directly to the county pages from bookmarks. At that time, Richard Howland, an ILGenWeb County Coordinator since October 1997 and Susan's right hand, became the new State Coordinator. Richard retired from his State Coordinator position on July 31, 2004, and Scott Burow, also a long time county coordinator for ILGenWeb, took over as the State Coordinator on August 1, 2004. Scott retired as SC on October 31, 2007. Deb Haines was elected State Coordinator on November 1, 2007. The ILGenWeb Project is very proud of our current and former State Coordinators for their dedication to our project. We are hopeful you will enjoy your visit to the ILGenWeb Project and that you will find the information you are seeking!!
If you would like to be a County Coordinator for ILGenWeb or help out with this great project in any way, please visit our Adoptions page for more information.
The ILGenWeb ProjectDeb Haines, State Coordinator
Morgan Johnson, Asst. State Coordinator
Cheryl Rothwell, Asst. State Coordinator
Mike Hébert, Director of Network Operations (aka The IT Guy)
The 1790 IL Map used in the banner courtesy of Michael L. Hébert, ILGenWeb Cumberland County Coordinator.