The Macoupin County Genealogical Society does not have an office or building. Our materials are housed in the George and Santina Sawyer Genealogy Room at the Staunton Public Library, 306 West Main St, Staunton, IL 62088. Phone 618-635-3852. The hours are: Mon-Thurs: 10 am - 7 pm; Fri 10 am - 5 pm & Sat: 10 am - 3 pm. Our collection includes Staunton newspapers on microfilm, census records, county histories, cemetery records, family histories, church records, etc. The Society will accept donations of any genealogical books and materials. These books and family data are placed in our Genealogy Room.
Library Holdings available in Excel or PDF format. Contact Jarid Ott for a copy.

Our mailing address is:
The Macoupin County Genealogical Society
PO Box 95
Staunton, IL 62088-0095

BECOME A MEMBER: Application (in pdf format)
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By joining the Macoupin County Genealogical Society you will receive many great benefits.

• The Macoupin County Searcher. A quarterly newsletter published in January, April, July and October which contains 25 plus full pages of genealogical information.
  Sample - Macoupin County Searcher Table of Contents Apr 2008
  
• Queries are free to members. Non-members are charged $2.00 per query.
• Assistance with locating your family in Macoupin County.
  

Jill is our main cemetery person. If you know of any unmarked graves or burials, including histories or items of  interest about these cemeteries that you think should be included in cemetery publications, please mail the society at the above address or contact Jill Secoy.  She would appreciate any information that you might have.

Volunteers Needed! If you can help organize genealogical materials or assist with whatever else needs to be done in our Genealogy Room at the Staunton Public Library, please mail the society at the above address or contact our Archivist-Sharon Bruhn.  Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Macoupin County Genealogical Society Meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday each month except December, in the Conference Room at the Community Memorial Hospital, 400 Caldwell, in Staunton.

Officers are nominated in April, elected in May and take office in June. Membership year runs from June 1 - May 31.


Officers - 2008-2009
President - Cindy Leonard
Vice President - Linda Atwood
Recording Secretary - Open
Corresponding Secretary - Jarid Ott
Treasurer - Jill Secoy
Archivist - Sharon Bruhn

Committee Chairmen

Finance Committee: Cindy Leonard, Jill Secoy
Program Committee - Linda Atwood
Publication Committee - Mary McKenzie
Newsletter Committee - Mary McKenzie
Publicity Committee - Jill Secoy
Historian
Book Committee - Mary McKenzie, Jill Secoy
Supply Committee - Lil Ashley
Cemetery Committee - Jill Secoy