Thank You! I appreciate your help :) Dan Conner >From: Cecinit@aol.com >Reply-To: ILCHAMPA-L@rootsweb.com >To: ILCHAMPA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ILCHAMPA-L] KOOPMANN/KOPMAN >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:30:07 EST > >cgsnyder@uiuc.edu writes: > > > According to the listing of Champaign County records held by the > > IRAD, they don't have any birth records. However, you can access > > birth records by contacting the Champaign County Clerk; see web site: > > > > What about birth records? > >Maybe that's just an error in the listing; there is a birth registry also >from >about 1878 on, that gives way to birth certificates (1910? the law changed >around then). Again, the records are very spotty: in my >great-grandfather's >family of some twelve children, only one apparently selected at random >appears in the birth records (likewise for his siblings' families). Also >check newspapers >for rather cryptic birth notices. In any event the LDS FHL has this >registry, >and since the county clerk has turned over most of these ancient records >to the Urbana Library, which contains the official Champaign Co archive, >they should have the registry and film as well. > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx