Hi, Lee, I'll give you one answer on the first part of your query, I'm not sure it's the only answer. Someone else might be able to answer about the funeral home and church records. I went to the Illinois State Death Index for 1916 - 1950 http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/idphdeathindex.html and inserted "Dannaman" for "Clinton County." It gives the name for a Dannaman that died on Jun 5, 1916, although the given name was transcribed differently. It gives you the certificate number that you can use if you order a copy of that death certificate. The County Clerk's info is at http://www.clintonco.org/clerk_county.htm Or you could order one cheaper from http://www.ilsos.net/cgi-bin/archives/irad.s A third choice would be to ask someone to get you a copy from the Springfield, IL archives, cost maybe $3, we could get you an email address. Perhaps you could send an email to the Clerk and ask if there is a possibility that the entry is for Christophe. Again, it could be a nickname for him? Just for fun, I tried another Death Index query for "Statewide" and the two Clinton Dannemans are the only ones listed. Of course you can order both certificates at the same time. In this data base, you must enter each possible alternate spellings if you think there was more family that died in Illinois. If you go to the "Search our site for your Clinton County ancestors" at the top of our basic http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilclint2/ , it will give you a link to the 1920 census entry and one marriage. Then go to http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/sursrch.pl http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/srchsite.pl?site=ILClinton and tick that second circle that says "Surnames and selected Soundex equivalents". That will give you some alternate spellings that are online, you'll probably pick all 3 alternate spellings and check each link. Last suggestion is the Illinois State Marriage Data base which covers through 1920 for our county, 1900 for some other counties. Just insert Danneman for the Groom Statewide, and then do the same for the Bride. Again, you'll have to check for each alternate spelling. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "lee markle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: [ILCLINTON] Death Cert., Clinton Co. > I am trying to find a death certificate for Christopher (Christoph) Dannaman. He was b/ march, 1866, and died June 5, 1916 in Clinton Co. He is buried in the Lutheran Cemetry at Hoffman. He is not in any of the databases on GenWeb or Rootsweb. > > Would someone know the address of the place in Clinton Courthouse , that i could write to? Also the name, address of the church or funeral home that maybe would have taken care of his funeral in that time period? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Lee > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >