Rock Island County Historical Society has these free, genealogy collections:

• Obituaries Index (63,000 newspaper obituaries)

• Rock Island County Historical Society Library’s Collection Newspaper Index

  • East Moline Herald
  • East Moline Enterprise
  • Van Gazette
  • Port Byron Globe
  • Erie Review
  • Rock Island Union
  • Milan Independent
  • Moline Dispatch
  • Reynolds Press
  • Rock Island Argus

• Gazette van Moline

• Rock Island County Civil War Soldiers Index

• Photograph Database

• Archival Collections (diaries, school records)

• Book Collection (yearbooks, obituaries, birth indexes, marriage indexes, death indexes, city directories, cemetery records, business records, county histories)

• Hauberg Database (index of people, pioneers)

• Newsletter Database

• Vertical Files