This project was organized for the Bicentennial, and is now a very popular project with over 3,000 certificates being issued to descendants of Illinois pioneers.
Documentation showing a date in Illinois is required.
After eligibility has been determined there is a small fee for each certificate. Three books on the Illinois Prairie Pioneers have been published. For questions concerning the Prairie Pioneer Project , please e-mail Marylea Degler . For a listing of Pioneer Certificates since the last printing of the index.