 
Henderson County, Illinois
| History & Genealogy
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| Henderson County, Illinois
| History & Genealogy
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| Record Group | Record Series (Description) |
| 103.008 |
STATE CENSUS. 1855. Index.:
includes NAME of HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD ONLY |
| 103.009 | CENSUS OF DEAF AND DUMB, BLIND, AND INSANE. 1855. No index.
... includes age, post office address, nature of ailment (i.e., deaf and dumb, blind, insane), and name of head of family with whom residing. |
| 103.010 | STATE CENSUS. 1865. Partial index.
... includes for each household NAME of HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD ONLY. |
| 103.240 | MARRIAGE RECORD INDEX (ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES). 1763-1916.
Index of marriages recorded in county courthouses. |
| 951.004 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (7TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1850. Includes Index. |
| 951.005 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (8TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1860. Includes Index. |
| 951.006 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (9TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1870. Includes Partial index. |
| 951.007 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (10TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1880. Partial index, Soundex system only to those families having children 10 years of age or younger, |
| 951.008 | AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (7TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1850. No index.
Entries for each farm concern the activities of the previous year and include name of owner, agent, or manager... |
| 951.009 | AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (8TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1860. No index.
Description as for 1850 Agricultural Schedule |
| 951.010 | AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (9TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1870. No
index.
Description as for 1850 Agricultural Schedule |
| 951.011 | AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (10TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1880. No Index.
Entries for each farm concern the activities of the previous year and include name of individual occupying farm... |
| 951.012 | INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (7TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1850. No Index.
Entries for each business concern the activities of the previous year and include name of corporation, company, or individual producing articles totaling $500 or more... |
| 951.013 | INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (8TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1860. No Index.
Description as for 1850 Industrial Schedule. |
| 951.014 | INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (9TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1870. No Index.
Entries for each business concern the activities of the previous year and include name of corporation, company, or individual producing articles totaling $500 or more... |
| 951.015 | INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (10TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1880. No Index.
Entries for each business concern the activities of the previous year and include name of corporation, company, or individual producing goods of $500 or more... |
| 951.016 | SOCIAL STATISTIC SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (7TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1850. No Index.
These returns include statistics ONLY - NO NAMES - on the valuation of estates; annual taxes; colleges, academies, and schools; seasons and crops; libraries; newspapers and periodicals; churches; pauperism; crime; and wages. |
| 951.017 | SOCIAL STATISTIC SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (8TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1860. No Index.
These schedules provide information ONLY - NO NAMES - on the valuation of estates; annual taxes; colleges, academies, and schools; seasons and crops; libraries; newspapers and periodicals; churches; pauperism; crime; and wages. |
| 951.018 | SOCIAL STATISTIC SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (9TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1870. No Index.
These schedules provide information ONLY - NO NAMES - on the valuation of estates; annual taxes; public debt; colleges, academies, and schools; seasons and crops; libraries; newspapers and periodicals; churches; pauperism; crime; and wages. |
| 951.019 | MORTALITY SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (7TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1850. No Index.
Census schedules of deaths occurring during the year ending June 1, 1850. Entries for each deceased individual variously include name, occupation, age, sex, race (i.e., white, black, mulatto), free or slave, marital status, birthplace (e.g., state, territory, county), length of illness, month of death, and cause of death (e.g., flux, drowned, scarlet fever, old age). |
| 951.020 | MORTALITY SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (8TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1860. No Index.
Census schedules of deaths occurring during the year ending June 1, 1860. Entries for each deceased individual variously include name, occupation, age, sex, race (i.e., white, black, mulatto), free or slave, marital status, birthplace (e.g., state, territory, country), length of illness, month of death, and cause of death (e.g., flux, drowned, old age). |
| 951.022 | MORTALITY SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (10TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1880. No Index.
Census schedules of deaths occurring during the year ending May 31, 1880. Entries for each deceased individual variously include name, occupation, age, sex, race, marital status, birthplace, birthplace of parents, month of death, cause of death (e.g., scarlet fever, drowned), length of residence in county, name of place where disease was contracted if other than place of death, and name of attending physician. Also listed are families in which deaths occurred outside of the enumeration area. Occasionally included are verifications by attending physicians of causes of death and comments by the census enumerator (e.g., prevalence of particular diseases in area, number of families affected by different diseases). |
| 951.023 | SCHEDULES OF HANDICAPPED, DEPENDENT, AND DELINQUENT INHABITANTS OF ILLINOIS (10TH
FEDERAL CENSUS). 1880. No Index.
Entries include name, residence... |
| 951.027 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (12TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1900. Soundex index. |
| 951.028 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (13TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1910. Miracode index. |
| 951.029 | POPULATION SCHEDULES FOR ILLINOIS (14TH FEDERAL CENSUS). 1920. Soundex index. |
| 954.006 | TRANSCRIPTS OF COUNTY BOARD MINUTES. 1802-1941. (Henderson: 1841-183) Compiled 1938-1942. No Index.
Transcripts are of the proceedings of boards of county commissioners and boards of county supervisors, 1802-1941. File includes both manuscript and typed copies of transcripts for all county boards... Board proceedings concern all county business such as approval of expenditures, establishment of roads and bridges, construction of county public buildings, licensing of taverns and ferries, and reports of county school superintendents. |
| 954.007 | INVENTORY OF COUNTY ARCHIVES. 1936-1942. No Index.
Fieldworkers' inventory work sheets on county archives list worker's name, inventory date, name of county, name of agency/office, address of office of custody, record title, dates, quantity, labeling, discontinued and missing records, arrangement, type of indexing, how written, contents, location by dates and quantities, and other information. Also included are maps, photographs, and essays on points of interest in all counties. |
| 954.008 | HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF COUNTIES. 1936-1942. No Index.
Information was compiled by county officials in response to an Historical Records Survey questionnaire. It was to be used in writing historical sketch sections of published inventories. Questions cover a wide range of topics including organization of or attempts to organize townships; appointments of commissioners; minutes of first meeting of board of supervisors; titles of county commissioners; information on current townships; conditions of tuberculosis sanatoriums; statistics on blind, old age, and mothers' pensions; county health programs; colleges and seminaries; coal mining and railroad operations; County Farm Bureau and County Home Bureau organizations; decennial financial reports of county officials; construction of courthouses; and sketches of public squares, courthouses, and other official buildings. Usually included are county maps showing township boundary lines and legal descriptions of townships. Occasionally publications about the counties are included. |
