Ida Public Library has some free, online genealogy collections including:
Obituary Index
Belvidere Newspaper Obituary Index 1851-2018 – this Boone County and Belvidere, Illinois obituary index is searchable by surname. This index includes obituaries printed in the Belvidere Standard, the Belvidere Daily Republican, or the Republican-Northwestern newspapers of Belvidere, IL. However, assume the obituary was printed in the Belvidere Daily Republican, unless otherwise noted. Please note that some dates refer to the date of death, while other dates refer to the date of the newspaper in which an obituary or death notice appeared. If a page number is listed, then the date refers to the date of the paper.
Boone County Birth Certificate & Death Certificate Indexes
- Boone County Birth Certificate Index, 1877-1907
- Boone County Death Certificate Index 1877-1915
- Boone County Death Certificate Index 1916-1955
Available Yearbooks
Due to copyright regulations, only yearbooks from 1912 to 1926 are available online. However, the library has yearbooks from 1926-current years available for use in the library. An ID will need to be provided at the circulation desk when requesting a yearbook and the yearbooks may not leave the library. Please call the library or email Local History for more information.
- 1912 Belvidere High School
- 1913 Belvidere High School
- 1914 Belvidere High School
- 1915 Belvidere High School
- 1916 Belvidere High School
- 1917 Belvidere High School
- 1918 Belvidere High School
- 1919 Belvidere High School
- 1919 Community High School (Capronite)
- 1920 Belvidere High School
- 1921 Belvidere High School
- 1922 Belvidere High School
- 1923 Belvidere High School
- 1924 Belvidere High School
- 1925 Belvidere High School
- 1926 Belvidere High School
Local History Room Files
Books
- Belvidere Illustrated, 1896
- The Past and Present of Boone County IL, 1877
- Portrait & Biographical Record of Winnebago & Boone Counties IL, 1892
Maps
- Map Index– index of Boone County, Belvidere, and Illinois maps and atlases in the Local History & Genealogy collection
- 1856 Belvidere map
- 1870 Belvidere map
- 1876 Belvidere map
- 1886 Belvidere: South Side map
- 1886 Boone County map
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