Contact Us
Richland County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 202Olney, Illinois 62450-0202 Website: https://www.rcgen.org e-mail: richlandcogensoc@hotmail.com Telephone Kathy at: 618-839-0583
Website Updates
October 5, 2023 We’ve been updated! We hope you enjoy the new look.
External Links
Ancestry.com Clay City IL facebook page Clay County, Illinois Crawford County, Illinois Crawford County IL facebook page Cyndi’s List Edwards County, Illinois Family Search Find A Grave Genealogy calculators Illinois, Wills and Probate Records 1772-1999 Jasper County, Illinois Jasper County IL facebook page Lawrence County, Illinois National Register of Historic Places listings in Richland County
Some Newspapers online
Richland County now has “some” of their newspapers online at http://Newspapers.com These are papers that the society had on microfilm and Newspapers were able to publish up to 1926. Newspapers.com is a subscription site but if you are at the Genealogy Dept at the college, you are able to access them without a subscription. If
65,000 Obits in the Genealogy Library
If you are trying to find an obit of an ancestor or maybe just a friend, The Richland Co. Genealogy Library has over 65,000 obits in their collection. We also have a DVD with an index only of the obits for SALE. The price is $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Contact through the “Contact us” link
Facebook Page
Come check out our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/richlandcogensoc/ You can post questions and queries there and we will try to answer you as soon as possible. We are currently in our library on Tues and Thurs.
Search Find A Grave HERE
Search 158.0 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname: Search 158.0 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname: Search 158.0 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname: Surname: Search 158.0 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking
Full Inventory Book List
NOTE: This is a long list that will take some time to load. Below you will see the Genealogy contents of books, maps, microfilm etc that we currently have in our library. 2-4-2020——We recently have added several donated family collections and we are updating the complete inventory list and will add it here soon These
Check out the Library page
If you click on “Library Contents” you will see some of the Richland Co, IL items we have in the library If you click on the “Full Inventory Book List” you will see a full list of everything we currently house in our library. This list is very long and we have tried