Illinois Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Illinois Immigration Records online
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- HT – HathiTrust
- IA – Internet Archive
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Illinois Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 1, at MH$
US – Native American – Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 2, at MH$
US – Native American – Handbook of American Indians, North of Mexico, Part 2 (1912), at MH$
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
US – Minorities – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
Illinois Minority Records Online at the state level
Illinois – African American – Illinois African American Obits, at AG
Illinois – African American – Gallatin County, Illinois slave register 1815-1839, at FS
Illinois – African American – The Negro family in Chicago, at HT
Illinois – African American – Pullman Porter National Historic Registry of the African-American Railroad Employees, at PPM
Illinois – African American – Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records Database, at ISA
Illinois – African American – Mapping the Stacks: A guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives, at UoC
Illinois – Jewish Records – Search: international quarterly for researchers of Jewish genealogy, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – History of the Swedes of Illinois, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – History of the Swedes of Illinois, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – Illinois Negro historymakers, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – The Scots and their descendants in Illinois, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – The Swedish element in Illinois : survey of the past seven decades with life sketches of men today, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – The Swedish element in Illinois : survey of the past seven decades with life sketches of men today, at FS
Illinois – Minorities – Kaskaskia records, 1778-1790 (French villages in Illinois), at FS
Illinois – Native American – The Illinois and Indiana Indians, at FS
Illinois – Swedish Americans – Name Indexes to Swedish Americans, at AC (CA, IL, IA, TX, WA)
Illinois Minority Records Online at the county and city level
Chicago – African American – Philip David Sang Collection – During the 20th century, Chicago native and former president of the Illinois State Historical Society Philip David Sang collected a wide variety of documents and manuscripts exploring American history. The majority of the collection, and the selections made available here, document the African American experience in slavery and in the resistance which culminated in its abolition. Series include Abolitionism, Runaways, Inventory and Birth Records, at CPL
Chicago – African American – Chicago Renaissance – African American creativity, activism and scholarship, 1930 to 1950
Chicago – African American – Harold Washington – The first African American mayor of Chicago
Chicago – African American – Robert W. Krueger Photograph Collection – Krueger photographed hundreds of restaurants, street scenes, parks, businesses, schools, houses, cemeteries, religious institutions, community events and residents of North Side neighborhoods. These photographs are a sample of his work.
Edwards County – Slavery & Emancipation Records – Edwards County Servitude & Emancipation Records 1722-1863, at GTHG
Elgin – African American – Black pioneers of Kane County and Elgin, Illinois, 1855 to 1880 : a genealogy and history, at GBPLD
Joliet – Ethnic – Joliet History: Historic Summary of the Mexican Population in Joliet, at JPL (coming soon)
Oak Lawn – African American History – Black History, at OLPL
Springfield – African American Springfield video resources, at SPL
St. Clair County – Native American – Stark County Native American Records online, at GTHG
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