McHenry County Illinois

Introduction

McHenry was formed in 1836 from the existing Cook and LaSalle counties. McHenry county bears the name of an Indian fighter named Major William McHenry. He died in Vandalia in 1835. The county originally extended all the way East to Lake Michigan but was reformed to create Lake county. The county seat is in Woodstock. McHenry county is composed of the following townships; Alden, Algonquin, Burton, Chemung, Coral, Dorr, Dunham, Grafton, Greenwood, Hartland, Hebron, Marengo, McHenry, Nunda, Richmond, Riley, and Seneca.

McHenry county is located Northwest of Chicago in the state of Illinois. It borders the counties of Lake, Cook, Kane, and Boone. These counties also have web sites as part of the Illinois GenWeb. Click on any of the county name links to visit the web sites.

The adjacent counties to the North are Walworth and Kenosha counties in Wisconsin. Click on any of these county links to visit these Wisconsin GenWeb sites. Click on any of the following town links Algonquin, Cary, Crystal Lake, Harvard, Hebron, Huntley, Johnsburg, Mchenry, Marengo, Richmond, Spring Grove, Woodstock, Wonder Lake .

County Coordinator

My name is Joe Markovich. I am the coordinator for the McHenry County web site. To volunteer to host an Illinois county, please visit the adoptable county page and then contact the appropriate regional coordinator

Data and Query Submissions

For ALL submissions to this site, or for any questions, comments, or suggestions, or ideas, contact me directly by email. All email is answered in a prompt manner.

Queries can be submitted to the following sources:

Rootsweb McHenry County Message Board - Read or Post QUERIES
GenForum McHenry County Message Board
To this web site: Use the email link above. All queries that are submitted to this site will be maintained as a permanent part of the McHenry County web site. Current queries are shown in the Surnames - Queries - Queries 2008 section.

How the ILGenWeb Started

In June, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Indiana Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more that one county, they could be located in the index. At the same time, some volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. Eventualy, this was expanded to all states and all counties across the US.

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I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Mchenry county and I do not have access to additional records. If you do not see the information you are seeking in this site, I do not have it as everything I have is posted in this site.

The McHenry Site last update Sat Oct-11-2008 17:07

All links verified correct

Email: Joe Markovich