Welcome

The Winnebago & Boone Counties Genealogical Society exists to:

• Encourage and support genealogical researchers.
   
• Promote the discovering, collecting, indexing, and preserving of valued genealogical resources of Winnebago and Boone Counties.
   
• Encourage publication of county material and family histories.

MEETINGS

We meet at Spring Creek United Church of Christ, 4500 Spring Creek Road, Rockford, IL unless otherwise specified.

All interested persons are welcome! Refreshments will be served.

No cost to attend. For more information, Call: (779) 203-3511 or Email wbcgensociety@gmail.com
 

Dave Oberg is a Rockford native and is the great-great grandson of Pehr Alfrid Oberg, aSwedish immigrant who served as a private with Battery H, First Illinois Artillery from 1862-1865.  Oberg serves as the Executive Director of the Elmhurst History Museum and as adjunct faculty atNorthern Illinois University, where he teaches museum administration.  Oberg is a past President of the Illinois Association of Museums and has worked for 30 years in the museum field.  He is the author of two books, Robert Tinker’s Rockford, Past Meets Present and People and Places in Old DeKalb, as well as numerous articles.  He is currently writing a comprehensive history of Battery H.  He lives in Villa Park, Illinois with his wife Sonali.

WHAT'S NEW

Check out our new Projects page with a link to the completed Cedar Bluff Cemetery database.