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Online Catalog – Our library catalog is online. For more information, click here.
Our library is FamilySearch Affiliate Library. We offer resources like those found in a FamilySearch center, such as access to FamilySearch’s extensive digital genealogical collections.
Library Location
- Lower Level of the Vernon Hills Village Hall
- 290 Evergreen Drive, Vernon Hills, IL
- Phone (847) 918-3584
- Map of Vernon Hills Village Hall
Library Hours – Monday-Friday 9 am-4:45pm, when a volunteer is present.
Please call 847-918-3584 before you visit the Research Room to verify that a volunteer is on duty.
Calendar schedule of volunteer days and hours: March
We have over 6,000 books in our collection. Our vast collection includes:
- 54 transcribed Cemeteries
- Marriage Index 1839-1916
- Naturalizations 1864-1920
- Funeral Home & Church Records
- Veterans Burials ldx (Burials < 1956)
- Census Transcriptions 1840-1930
- Circuit Case Files 1841-1898
- Landowners Maps Index 1861-1915
- Probate Index 1887-1949
- County Histories with Index (1877, 1891, 1912)
- Copies of Birth Certificates 1866-1915
- Over 250,000 Obituaries, and cemetery cards
- Microfilm: Newspapers: Locals 1845-1941, Chicago
Tribune 1980-1990,New York Times 1990-1994 - Large collection of completed family histories
- High School & College Yearbooks
- Publications for sale.
We have a good collection of information regarding many of the counties in Illinois. Our Cook County (Chicago) materials have recently grown.
Other States and Foreign Countries This collection focuses on the states and countries from which our ancestors emigrated including Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, and New England, but also many other states. We also have an extensive set of DAR Lineage books, many newsletters and Quarterlies from other Societies. Immigration data includes: Britain Czech, France, Germany, and many other countries.
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