Illinois Trails - Whiteside County includes online censuses, cemeteries, marriages
Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database - for Adams County select this county and then enter the surname (at least first 2 letters) of the person whom you wish to search on  (a government database of over 550,000 19thC land sales in Illinois - info on obtaining original copies is here )
Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy Project - Pages for This County you will find user contributed records of births, deaths, marriages, military and newspaper extracts at this site
Whiteside County, IL Genweb Project a collection of online resources for genealogy researchers
The Tombstone Transcription Project - cemeteries for Whiteside Co. IL
US GenWeb Archives for Whiteside County cemeteries, newspapers, wills, military rosters etc recorded online

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