Resources

Genealogy collection of 200+ billion images in 7,000 unique databases

125 million+ digitized images of newspapers, photos, and more from central Illinois and across the U.S.

Contains texts, images, videos, and audio materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country.

80,000+ pages of digitized microfilm from 1917-2013

Search genealogy profiles, photographs, and historical documents

IDA shares the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois.

Search the archives collected by the Illinois State Library, Illinois Statewide Vital Records Databases and the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories.

Collection includes census records, military records, county histories, atlases, and more.

More than 6,700 records from Illinois veterans, including oral histories and information on how to participate.

Firsthand narratives of U.S. military veterans of World War I to present.

Federal database includes census records, U.S. military records, naturalization records, land records, and more.