My email has had a few glitches over the weekend, so this may be old news, but just in case it isn't, Chicago birth certificates and registers are now available online for free at FamilySearch Labs. Hooray! Cynthia http://tinyurl.com/49ooet

Is this a good site? Family Search Labs? I've never used it before. ----- Original Message ----- From: <chicagogenealogy@comcast.net> To: <il-cook-chicago@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:42 AM Subject: [IL-COOK-CHICAGO] Birth Records Now Online > My email has had a few glitches over the weekend, so this may be old news, > but just in case it isn't, Chicago birth certificates and registers are > now available online for free at FamilySearch Labs. Hooray! > > Cynthia > > http://tinyurl.com/49ooet > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IL-COOK-CHICAGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Short answer: Yes! Have you used familysearch.org? This new site is a pilot site for which thousands of volunteers are transcribing records. It's especially good when you find your mother's birth certificate or your grandparents' marriage license and can download them! http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 Click on North America and see all the records. Wonderful! http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp What's New Help create free public access to U.S. census indexes See prototype for searching millions of records Mary Yetzkes wrote: > Is this a good site? Family Search Labs? I've never used it before. > > > - >> My email has had a few glitches over the weekend, so this may be old news, >> but just in case it isn't, Chicago birth certificates and registers are >> now available online for free at FamilySearch Labs. Hooray! >> >> Cynthia >> >> http://tinyurl.com/49ooet >> >> >

Here's how one volunteer described process of transcription. http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.cook/27178/mb.ashx "I indexed over 3,000 records myself. But it takes a second indexer to do the same exact pages that I did. Then a third person, an administrator, compares the two persons' work, and where there were different interpretations of the handwriting, that third person makes the decision on which person's interpretation seems to be correct." Description page for volunteering. http://www.familysearchindexing.org/home.jsf Mary Yetzkes wrote: > Is this a good site? Family Search Labs? I've never used it before. > > chicagogenealogy wrote > >> My email has had a few glitches over the weekend, so this may be old news, >> but just in case it isn't, Chicago birth certificates and registers are >> now available online for free at FamilySearch Labs. Hooray! >> >> Cynthia >> >> http://tinyurl.com/49ooet >> >