This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Higgins Roach Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/898.1.1 Message Board Post: I just learned my great aunt, Elizabeth A Higgins was born in Savanna, IL on 12/18/1872. A Carroll Co website states the birth certificates are not available that far back. I believe at least one other brother, James Martin Higgins, was also born in Savanna in 1869. Maybe another brother too. Any idea if their births would have been recorded in the newspapers or where I could obtain copies of their birth certificates? Their parents were Bridget Roach Higgins and Patrick C Higgins. I believe Patrick was a carpenter. They later moved to Madison, Wi. Thanks for any help.