The Carroll County Genealogical Center is Located on the lower level of the Owen P. Miles Museum, at 107 East Broadway in Mount Carroll, Illinois.
We are available by appointment by calling 815-273-7676 and leaving a message requesting assistance. Please leave your name and phone number and when you would like to visit. We will return your call as soon as possible.
We would be pleased to undertake research within our county. However, we do need to know exactly what information you are seeking. Also, in order not to duplicate efforts you have already made, it would be helpful if you could specify which genealogical sources you may have already researched.
Research Rates
The Carroll County Genealogical Center will do research on request. We charge $15.00 per hour and require a prepayment of at least $15.00 to cover the first hour. Copies will be an additional charge of 25 cents per page.
County Courthouse
The Carroll County Genealogy Center has access to the puclic records of the Carroll County Courthouse, located in Mount Carroll, IL. The available records are as follows:
- Marriage records start 1839
- Birth records start 1880
- Death records start 1880
- Probates start 1849
Copies for genealogical use are all priced at $10.00
Certified Copies are $18.00 for marriage and birth for first copies with additional copies at $4.00. The cost of death records are $22.00 for first copy with additional copies at $6.00.
We have access to ancestry.com available at the museum as well.
Holdings
The Genealogy Center has a large collection of research materials.
This includes:
- Federal census records, 1840-1920, extracted and indexed.
- County Tombstone/Sexton records through 1975
- Funeral Home Records
- Access to Marriage Index for State and County up to 1900
- Newspaper obituaries from 1970s to current (some older miscellaneous entries)
- Access to various local/county newspapers (Savanna, Thomson, Chadwick, Lanark, Galena) bond and on microfilm.
- Platbooks, some indexed.
- Scrapbooks
- County Assessors Books
- Various Published Local Family Histories
- Probate Records
- Various Church records
- Some information about surrounding counties.