Resources
- Wikipedia, Shelby County, Illinois
- FamilySearch
- FindAGrave
- USGenWeb Archives - Shelby County, Illinois
- Digital Public Library of America
- Illinois Secretary of State Databases
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
- 1875 Plat Book of Shelby County. I have a copy of the 1875 Plat Book for
Shelby County. Although it does not have an index, I am happy to search for
names if someone has identified a township.
Jane
Snell Copes (great-granddaughter of William Henry Snell, Flat Branch
Twp. settler in about 1840)
jscopes66@hotmail.com - 1881 Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois
- 1891 Portrait and Biographical Record of Shelby and Moultrie Counties Illinois
- 1900 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
- 1907 Pioneer Life in Illinois
- 1909 City Directory of Shelbyville
- 1909 Jasper Douthit's Story; the Autobiography of a Pioneer
- 1915 History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois by Nathaniel S. Haynes, 670 pages
- 1918 Prairie Farmer's Directory
- 1919 Shelby County in the World War
- 1963 A Shelby County Company in the Civil War
- 1973 History of Tower Hill
- 1974 Stewardson, the First 100 Years
- Naturalization Records - Illinois County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998, at familysearch.org, has record images for Shelby County
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Findlay, Moweaqua, Shelbyville, Stewardson, Tower Hill, and Windsor
- Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library
- Shelby County Historical & Genealogical Society on Facebook
- Shelby County government offices
- Chronicling America
- ObitCity
- The Ancestor Hunt
- Genealogy Trails
- ILSHELBY Query Board and Mailing List at groups.io
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