ResearchBuzz: US-Illinois Archives

I bet you could, at this point, write an entire book on mashing up resources. It could cover all these new funky cross-resource applications and perhaps even give some ideas for how to most effectively put together the Yahoo and...

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The Illinois Sunshine Database (Illinois Sunshine Database?) offers information about over 150,000 recent contributions to Illinois political candidates. It's updated through June 30, 2004 and is available at http://www.ilcampaign.org. (Look on the right side of the page.) An advanced search...

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The state of Illinois now has a database of public domain land tract sales available at http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/data_lan.html. This database contains information about around 550,000 land sales from the 54,740 square miles of the public domain sold within Illinois. The database...

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The state of Illinois has a huge number of available genealogy databases at http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html. In fact, there are so many that it's kind of a pain to search them. But now the state also offers a global search of all...

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I can't cover all of these in-depth; there are just too many of them! If you're doing genealogy research in Illinois, you'll be really stoked at these new databases. I will give an overview of the statewide ones. Note...

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