Welcome to Lee County, Illinois

This site is designed to assist you with your Lee County genealogical research. I am trying to list all resources that are available for Lee County and where to find them. 

Please use the Table of Contents to navigate the site. Most of the pages on this site can be accessed directly from there. You can come back to this page by clicking on the Lee County banner at the top.

This site is honored to be a part of the USGenWeb and the ILGenWeb Projects.

Last of all, I am your Lee County site coordinator. Please feel free to contact me, Gordon Johnson, with any questions or comments you might have about this site. Please direct general queries to the query page. I personally do not do lookups. Please read the societies research policy for more details.

Lee County Genealogical Society

Open House

The Lee County Genealogical Society and their library, the Family Tree Center has moved to a new location, 111 S. Hennepin Avenue in Dixon.

They are having an Open House Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th of August.

This library, The Family Tree Center, is the place to go for any Lee County genealogy research. They have the largest collection on Lee County that you will fine anywhere. If you are doing research in Lee County make the Family Tree Center your first stop. There is no charge to use the library, only for copies.

New Mailing Address:
111 S. Hennepin Ave.
Dixon Illinois  61021

Ashton Newspaper Indexes

This index of the Ashton Gazette covers Feb. 28, 1895 to Dec. 28, 1944. Also included misc. Ashton Sentinel and Ashton Press newspapers. There are 18 issues of the Ashton Sentinel, from 1873 to 1887. The Ashton Press issues are for 1889, 49 issues, Jan. 19, 1889 to Dec. 28, 1889.
      Courtesy of the Lee County Genealogical Society

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