Knox County, Illinois
Genealogy & History

Your best bet for getting information on your lines of interest or a transcript or copy of a biography, census, cemetery listing, or other record for Knox County is to submit a query to the RootsWeb Knox County Message Board.  A copy of your request will automatically go to the Knox County Email List where it will be seen by all of the subscribers to the list.  Many list subscribers frequently offer to help those who submit requests.

Posting to the Message Board also has the advantage of creating a permanent record of your query so that it can be seen by future Knox County researchers who may be pursuing your same surname lines.  (Please Note: By default, those replying to your message copy that goes to the Knox County Email List will reply to the List rather than to the Message Board or to you, and you will hear nothing unless you are a subscriber to the email list.  You should at least temporarily subscribe to the Knox County Email List to be sure you receive all responses to your query.)

Or, you can contact the Knox County Genealogical Society with a Research Request.  They will transcribe or copy records for a small fee.

Or, you can contact the Galesburg Public Library at (309) 343-6118.  They will make often make copies of specific records for a small fee.

Or, you can check our Lookups page to see if anyone has volunteered to do lookups on the material you are specifically interested in.