LaSalle County Illinois Genealogy Page

LaSalle County was established in 1831 from parts of Putnam and unorganized Tazewell Counties. LaSalle County was named for the famous French explorer Robert de la Salle. The original LaSalle County covered parts of present-day Kendall, Livingston and Marshall counties. Its current boundaries were established in 1843.

Welcome to LaSalle County. This home page is dedicated to those who are interested in doing genealogical research in LaSalle County and should be viewed as a tool to help you in this endeavor. Suggestions and comments are not only appreciated and welcome but are asked for. All will be answered as soon as possible. Below are some aides that it is hoped will be helpful in your research. Please feel free to let me know if you have more that you would like to add via e-mail to Annette Liptak so they can be included in future editions of this homepage.

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Search our site for your LaSalle County Ancestors Surnames

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If you could not find your ancestors in the above search site, try the LaSalle County Surname Helper site, which is alphabetized, and you may find it under a similar spelling. Over 10,000 Surnames indexed in this site so far!

LaSalle County Links

Queries & Surname's

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LaSalle County Communities

· Online Documents - LaSalle County Records submitted to the ILGenWeb Archives

· LaSalle County Lookup Volunteers

· LaSalle County Cemeteries

· LaSalle County Cemetery Locations - Maps by USGS

· Cemetery Location Project - Put together by the Illinois Genealogical Society

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· Community Map of LaSalle County

· Township Map

· 1875 LaSalle County Map - *Very large file* Source: "Atlas of Henry Co. Illinois" Warner & Beers Publishers, Chicago, 1875. Submitted by Alice Gless

· Family Homepages - If you have an ancestor that lived in LaSalle County and a genealogy web site, please send me your URL and surnames and I will see that it gets posted to this page.