Adopting an ILGenWeb County


The ILGenWeb Project consists of many volunteers working toward the same goal: free, online access to genealogical and historical material related to Illinois and its counties. The following counties are currently available for adoption:
                          • Bureau County
                          • Calhoun County
                          • Clark County
                          • Edwards County
                          • Ford County
                          • Gallatin County
                          • Greene County
                          • Hardin County
                          • Henderson County
                          • Henry County
                          • Jefferson County
                          • Knox County
                          • LaSalle County
                          • Massac County
                          • McDonough County
                          • Monroe County
                          • Morgan County
                          • Putnam County
                          • Randolph County
                          • Richland County
                          • Saline County
                          • Sangamon County
                          • Stark County
                          • St. Clair County
                          • Stephenson County
                          • Wabash County
                          • Will County
                          • Woodford County

If you are interested in adopting any of the above counties, read our ILGenWeb Procedures page. This page contains important guidelines that all potential ILGenWeb Coordinators must agree to prior to consideration of adopting a county.

If you agree to these guidelines, please contact the State Coordinator at ilgenwebsc@gmail.com to inquire about the adoptable county.

A coordinator should have interest and knowledge in the county they are adopting and access to county data to continue growing the site. We now have a script for coordinator's use to manage their county which can be seen at http://www.ILGenWeb.org, therefore it is no longer necessary for a coordinator to know HTML or FTP to update your pages, only an access to data and a willingness to help grow the ILGenWeb Project.



Helpful Links For Coordinators

The USGenWeb Project Information for Volunteers
ILGenWeb Logos
USGenWeb Logos


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Software Links

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