ILLINOIS STATE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
PURPOSE
The Illinois State Genealogical Society (ISGS) was organized in October of the Sesquicentennial Year, 1968, and is a non-profit, educational organization with 2,000 members.
ISGS was established for the following purposes:
- To stimulate an interest in the people who contributed to the establishment and development of the State of Illinois.
- To seek, preserve, and make available data pertaining to individuals, families, and groups who lived in Illinois and to events which took place therein.
- To inform people of the value of, and need for, preserving family and local history for posterity.
- To encourage the formation of local genealogical societies and to coordinate and
disseminate information.
The ISGS genealogical collection is located in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
in Springfield and an administrative office is maintained in the Illinois State Archives.
