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:

• 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 microreader-printers
• 3 copy machines-$.10 for black and white, $1.60 for color
  
• 1 computer for genealogy use only
• Assorted state and regional histories