Our Genealogy Room

What is here

Sears homes. Cemeteries. Coal Mines. Family histories.  The Carlinville Public Library has a wealth of local and family histories available for the serious researcher or for anyone wishing to pass a couple interesting hours.

The comfortable Zimmer Family Genealogy Room houses Macoupin and surrounding county histories, local church histories, and anecdotal information about Carlinlville and Macoupin county.  In addition, the following items are available for in-house use:

• History of Macoupin County Schools
• Census records on paper and microfilm
• Local newspapers on microfilm back to the mid-1850s
• Cemetery listings on paper and CD-ROM
• City directories, school directories, and phone books
• Marriage records
• Extensive obituary index for the local area
• 1880 Nation Census on CD-ROM
• 3 microfilm reader-printers--one allows you to email or save your information to a flash drive:  one makes copies of the information:  one is read only
  
• 2 copy machines-$.10 for black and white, $1.60 for color
  
• 1 computer for genealogy use only
• Assorted state and regional histories