Cowden Genealogy (in Shelby County, IL)

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NOTE: Additional records that apply to Cowden are also found through the Shelby County and Illinois pages.


Cowden Birth Records

Birth certificates, 1848-1915 FamilySearch Library

Illinois, Birth Records, 1916-present Illinois Department of Public Health

Cowden Cemetery Records

Center Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mound Cemetery Billion Graves online

Neal Cemetery Find a Grave online

Pleasant Grove Cemetery Find a Grave online

Red Bank Cemetery Billion Graves online

Cowden Census Records

1855 Illinois State Census Ancestry online

1865 Illinois State Census Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Cowden City Directories

Pana (Illinois) city directories FamilySearch Library

Cowden Death Records

1916-1947 Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index Ancestry online

Abstracts of clippings found in two scrapbooks : obituaries, marriages, ministers, and cemeteries named WorldCat

Death records, 1878-1917 FamilySearch Library

Illinois Deaths, 1916-1950 MyHeritage online

Illinois Deaths, before 1916 MyHeritage online

Illinois, Death Records, 1916-present Illinois Department of Public Health

Illinois, Select Deaths Index, 1877-1916 Ancestry online

Cowden Immigration Records

Illinois, Federal Naturalization Records, 1856-1991 Ancestry online

Naturalization records, 1858-1895, and docket, 1874-1888 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, vol. B, 1, 1876-1882, 1904-1906 FamilySearch Library

Cowden Land Records

Deed records, 1827-1926 FamilySearch Library

Cowden Marriage Records

1800-1940 Illinois, County Marriage Records Ancestry online

1860-1920 Illinois, Marriage Index Ancestry online

Abstracts of clippings found in two scrapbooks : obituaries, marriages, ministers, and cemeteries named WorldCat

Illinois Marriages, 1763-1900 MyHeritage online

Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860 Ancestry online

Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900 Ancestry online

Marriage records, 1827-1922 FamilySearch Library

Cowden Newspapers and Obituaries

Abstracts of clippings found in two scrapbooks : obituaries, marriages, ministers, and cemeteries named WorldCat

Cowden Probate Records

1772-1999 Illinois, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Cowden School Records

Cowden High School - Kaskadette Yearbook (Cowden, IL), 1956, 1959 E Yearbook online

Cowden High School yearbook, 1959 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Cowden-Herrick High School yearbook, 1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1972 Classmates online

Cowden-Herrick High School yearbook, 1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1972 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage online

Cowden-Herrick High School yearbooks, 1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1972 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online


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