write to the city personnnel office... if the person is living, get a release from them to send copies of their full files to you at your address soNso signed and notarized... if not living, provide your relationship and copy of death cert...... don't expect much but you might get a copy of an employee card... and if there were an image you might be lucky to get that... keep a copy of all you send, including any originals... they don't need the original on the first pass at least...until you have a specific name of a person to write to (if they were to correspond back without sending anything) and then you can send the original and ask for it back....send a copy as well... or get the notary to state that theoriginal was seen.... and notarize that as well... ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Rosenberg<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:49 PM Subject: [IL-CHICAGO] finding city employee A relative was listed as a city employee in the Chicago City Directory of 1896. (low-level employee). Another relative was a city employee in the 1920's according to death certificate. How would I find out more information about either of these? Susan Rosenberg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com<http://mail.yahoo.com/> ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe: Send a message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx>