Brown County Genealogy
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Brown Countywide Sources
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Records
1840 Federal Census US Gen Web
1850 Census of Brown US Gen Web Archives
1850 Federal Census (part 1) US Gen Web
1860 Federal Census Index of Surnames US Gen Web
1862 Military Census US Gen Web
1870 Federal Census Index of Surnames US Gen Web
1880 Federal Census US Gen Web
1883 Brown County Federal Pensioners' List US Gen Web Archives
A History of Brown County, Illinois 1880-1970 Family History Library
Administrators' records, 1849-1936 Family History Library
All-name index to the Pictorial history of Brown County, Illinois Family History Library
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois
Biographical review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of pioneers and leading citizens Family History Library
Brown County Almshouse Registers Index (1882-1963) Illinois State Archive
Brown County Illinois probate index : taken from records at Brown County Courthouse Family History Library
Brown County, IL deaths, 1882-1895 : taken from newspapers Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois County Farm (almshouse) records, residents etc., 1878-1937 : indexed Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois almshouse registers, 1882-1963 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois birth register, v. 1, 1877-*1895, index, ca. 1865-1895 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois circuit court cases Abraham Lincoln and partners argued before the Ill. Supreme Court, ca. 1837-1853 : includes some related or questionable cases Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois lists of lands subject to taxation, 1817-1853 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois marriage registers, 1839-1951 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois marriages, 1839-1850 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois register of deaths, book 1, Dec. 1877-Oct. 1915 : indexes, 1878-1945 Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois scrapbook of early days, 1850-1900's Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois, scrapbook of early day photos, 1870- 1900's Family History Library
Brown County, Illinois, tax list, 1842 Family History Library
Cemetery records of Brown County, Illinois Family History Library
Chancery records, 1853-1924 Family History Library
City and post office directory of Mount Sterling and Brown County, Illinois Family History Library
Combined history of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois : with illustrations descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Family History Library
Combined history of Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois : with illustration descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Family History Library
Combined history of Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois : with illustrations descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Family History Library
Early Marriages 1839-1850 US Gen Web
Executors's records, vols. B-E, 1869-1928 Family History Library
Family maps of Brown County, Illinois : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more Family History Library
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
Guardian bonds, 1858-1939; guardian inventories, 1879-1895 Family History Library
Guardianship records, ca. 1850-1922 Family History Library
Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 Family Search
Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Illinois Marriage Index, Brown (1839-1925) Illinois State Archive
Illinois Marriage Records 1860 - 1905 Archives
Illinois Marriages To 1850
Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860
Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900
Illinois, Births and Christenings, 1824-1940 Family Search
Illinois, Marriages, 1815-1935 Family Search
Illinois, Probate Records, 1819-1970 Family Search
Index and supplemental index to Biographical review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois Family History Library
Index of History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois Open Library
Index to 1882 Brink's history Family History Library
Index to Brown County, Illinois almshouse registers, 1882-1927, 1914-1963 Family History Library
Index to maiden names on tombstones and recorded burials Family History Library
Inventory of the county archives of Illinois, no. 5, Brown County (Mt. Sterling) Family History Library
Land atlas and plat book, Brown County, Illinois, 1986 Family History Library
Marriage licenses and other loose papers, 1868-1951 Family History Library
Marriages and Deaths Recorded in 1959 US Gen Web Archives
Marriages of Brown County, Il., May 16, 1839-Nov. 24, 1861, vol. 1 : book A & B Family History Library
Marriages, 1900-1920 : taken from Brown County newspapers; indexed by both bride and groom Family History Library
Naturalizations, declarations of intention & petitions, 1857-1948 Family History Library
Permanent resident index : a complete index of the burial and family relationships sections of Cemeteries of Brown County, Illinois, 1825-1972, pages 1-416 Family History Library
Prairie Farmer's directory of Brown and Schuyler counties, Illinois : complete directory of the farmers of Brown and Schuyler counties, with valuable information about each farm.. Family History Library
Pre-1916 Illinois Death Index Brown (Dec. 1877-May 1887) Illinois State Archive
Probate records, 1844-1922; indexes, ca. 1844-1964 Family History Library
Probate related records, vols. AA-27, 1839-1923 Family History Library
Soldier's & sailor's discharges, ca. 1901-1953 Family History Library
Standard atlas of Brown County, Illinois, including a plat book, patrons directory Family History Library
The cemeteries of Brown County, Illinois, 1825-1972 Family History Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
We will go to a new land : the great East Frisian migration to America 1845-1895 Family History Library
Will packets, ca. 1873-1963 Family History Library
Wills, 1869-1927 Family History Library
[Adams County, Illinois cemeteries, ca. 1789-1967] Family History Library
More Brown County records are available on the statewide page