Pope County Genealogy
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Pope Countywide Sources
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Records
Illinois Census Returns, 1810 and 1818
1820 Census of Pope US Gen Web Archives
Illinois Census Returns, 1820
A History of the church and cemeteries with a directory of cemeteries at Zion, Pope County, Illinois (Zion Methodist Episcopal Church (Pope County, Illinois)) Family History Library
A Record of land owners in Pope County, Illinois in the early 1900's : plat maps with more than 2,000 listings Family History Library
A census of three cemeteries : Bethany, Hodge and Prospect, Pope County, Illinois Family History Library
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Birth records, 1862-1915; index, 1862-1930's Family History Library
Cemeteries of Burnside Township, Johnson County, Illinois : Ballance, Cedar Creek, Drake (Williamson County), New Burnside, Newbold, Reid, Reynoldsburg, Rich/Horn, Robinson/Robertson, Rushing, Salem (Williamson County), St. Francis De Sales/McCabe, Woodside, Zion (Pope County), Veterans (unknown location) Family History Library
Circuit Court records, 1818-1862 Family History Library
Civil War Enrollments by Township US Gen Web Archives
County court records, 1816-1850 Family History Library
Death register and index, 1877-1910; death record, 1909-1917 Family History Library
Deeds v. 1816-1886; index, 1810-1910 Family History Library
Early pioneer gravestones of Pope County, Illinois Family History Library
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
History of Massac County, Illinois : with life sketches and portraits Family History Library
Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Illinois Marriage Index, Pope (1816-1925) 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, Diocese of Belleville, Catholic Parish Records, 1729-1956 (includes 28 counties) Family Search
Illinois, Marriages, 1815-1935 Family Search
Illinois, Probate Records, 1819-1970 Family Search
Index to deaths as recorded in Pope Co. newspapers, 1858-1934 Family History Library
Justice docket, Pope County, 1886-1920 Family History Library
Marriages Book A-1 Page 45 US Gen Web Archives
Marriages Book B Page 39 US Gen Web Archives
Membership rolls, Golconda IOOF Lodge 292, 1860-1945 [i.e. 1946] Family History Library
Militia roll record, 1861-1862 Family History Library
Minutes of meetings and lists of members, 1864-1972 (Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Pope County, Illinois)) Family History Library
Mortgagor and mortgagee indexes, vols. A, 1888-1899 Family History Library
Names of 34 Pope County, Illinois soldiers who served primarily in the Civil War : record was created ca. 1900 Family History Library
Naturalization records from the Illinois court houses of Alexander County, Hardin County, Johnson County, Massac County, Pope County, Pulaski County, Union County Family History Library
Naturalization records, 1864-1898 Family History Library
Obituaries, Johnson and Pope counties, Illinois : Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2001 Family History Library
Pope Co., Illinois cemetery inscriptions Family History Library
Pope County Notes
Pope County, Illinois 1845, 1855 & 1865 state census Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois : history and families, 1816-1989 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois ancestral charts, v. 1 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois cemeteries Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois cemeteries : results of a graveyard obsession Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois chancery index : approximately 1860-1960 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois county court record Book A, 1816-1831 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois deed book, 1811 to 1850 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois early census records, 1818-1850 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois forgotten records Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois herald-enterprise newspaper abstracts : births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, anniversaries, reunions, divorces ... an every name index, a 200 year reference calendar and a map of Pope County ... included in each week is a special section on 25 years ago (starting with 1892) and a special section on Southern Illinois Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois land and road tax lists, assessor's books, ca. 1816-1865 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois landowners, 1820 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois marriage books Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois marriage licenses, reports, affidavits, consents, 1813-1915 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois marriage records, 1822-1944; index, 1822-1960 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois marriages, 1816-1839 Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois obits & tidbits Family History Library
Pope County, Illinois probate records Family History Library
Pope-Hardin County (Illinois), land atlas & plat book, 1987 Family History Library
Pre-1916 Illinois Death Index Pope (Dec. 1877-Dec. 1915) Illinois State Archive
Probate records and journals, 1819-1888 Family History Library
Record of aliens naturalized, 1820-1821 Family History Library
Revolutionary War pioneers : pension and service papers of veterans of the American Revolution who settled in southern Illinois in the counties of Alexander, Johnson, Pope, Pulaski, Union, Hardin and a list of officers and soldiers of the Illinois Regiment Family History Library
Saline and Pope County cemetery inscriptions Family History Library
Soldiers discharge, 1862-1865 Family History Library
The Biographical review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin counties, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens Family History Library
The Biographical review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin counties, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens.. Family History Library
The Biographical review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin counties, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens; also biographies of the presidents of the United States Family History Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
Voter Lists, June 4, 1888 US Gen Web Archives
Will record, vol. A, 1861-1916 Family History Library
Williamson County, Illinois marriages, 1839 to 1853 and 1865; Pope County, Illinois marriages, 1826 to 1845; Johnson County, Illinois marriages, 1857 to 1860 Family History Library
More Pope County records are available on the statewide page