- CyberDriveIllinois online databases- The Illinois State Archives maintains many invaluable databases online through the Secretary of State's website, several of which may list your ancestor! Be sure to check out the Statewide Death Indexes and the Statewide Marriage Index. Additional records featuring your women ancestors may be found at one of the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories, or IRADS- you can review their holdings online. Research requests are being taken by mail or telephone. Want to learn more about the Illinois State Archives? Be sure to check out the FREE webinar from Dr. Dave Joens, Director of the State Archives, "Finding Ancestors in the Land of Lincoln-" available to members AND non-members on the ISGS home page!
- For ISGS members- Be sure to check out these webinars from our archive! To access, sign in under the "Members Only" section and click "Webinars."
- "Desperately Seeking Susan: Finding Female Ancestors," presented by Amy Johnson Crow, CG (March 2012)
- "Finding your Femme Fatales: Exploring the Dark Side of Female Ancestors," presented by Lisa Alzo (March 2015)
- "Nurses, Matrons, Laundresses & Cooks: Documenting Women in the Civil War," presented by Angela Y. Walton Raji (March 2017)
- Illinois Digital Archives- check out these examples of collections for Illinois history and women's research, and check out the thousands of other treasures on the IDA site!
- Was your ancestor a nurse in Illinois? Check out the Health Care collection
- Learn about what women did at Illinois State University during WWI- check out "A University Goes to War, World War I Women"
- Was your ancestor part of the Women's Rights Movement of the 1960s? Check out the audio presentation, "Women's Rights Project Memoir"
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