Greetings: Attempting to help a gal who is requesting some info from Verm. Cty. which I can't find in my Verm. records. Sounds to me as tho she should be looking in Ford County. Here is what she needs. "We have 2 marriages we have not been able to get records for. William Collins and Ida Irene Showers were mar. on Dec. 8, 1887 and had 9 children in East Lynn, died in Danville, buried East Lynn. (**Not in Vermilion Cty. License Abstracts) Second marriage is Hans Christensen and Maren Radkin - she's not sure of spelling on that. They immigrated from Denmark to Paxton, IL in 1883 and 1885. They were naturalized in 1888 - and their first child was born in Paxton in 1889." Is there a possibility her Ralph Collins is buried in Ford County. Either he doesn't have a stone or burial permit in records of East Lynn Cemetery. She says an elderly uncle swears he is buried in East Lynn, but we just did a new East Lynn Cem. Book (at Rossville Gen. Society) and I, myself, walked that cemetery 4 times in 1998 and went thru all their records so we could make up a book ($10), and there is no Ralph Collins with a stone or any burial permit. By the way, all the East Lynn Cemetery records from the time it was first used in 1871 thru 1916 are plain GONE!!! Visited elderly fellow (Geo. Luxton) who lives by the EL cemetery and has in the past been on the Board, and he said they have been missing for many years! About broke my heart! Some of these people supposedly responsible for the records surely slipped up on this action!! When I was given all the old record books and burial permits, they were in a grocery bag - I made 3 x 5 cards on every burial where there is either a stone or a burial permit with all the info available; the gals at Rossville Historical & Gen. Soc. put them on the computer and then had the book printed out. I made a complete set of 3 x 5 cards all filled out; 100 new blank cards; alphabetized all burial permits in an expanding folder - and hope they will keep future burial permits in order. It took me 6 weeks to do all this - and I was really there to do research on my own lines - so goes life! I thot' the cemetery was of prime importance. Marge Houmes Crotts Formerly of Hoopeston, IL 5501 E. Duncan Mesa, AZ 85205 Spr1sleuth@aol.com By the way, do you know if anyone has made up a cemetery book for Rankin that is available for sale? Illiana in Danville has a copy, but wants 25 cents for each page and another 25 cents for the reverse side...which I think is an exorbitant price to charge for copying. Most everywhere else it is 10 or 15 cents. So many of my own relatives and extended family members are buried there, I really need that book (I live in Mesa, AZ - but am from Hoopeston, IL and am a life member at both Rossville and Watseka and join by the year at Illiana at Danville.) Seems every time I need to look somebody up, I don't have the records right here where I can use them. Bought Danville Illiana's Marriage License Abstracts (1826-1899) for $140 - have several cemetery records from Iroquois County (thanks to Cheryl Gocken) - but I have nothing on Ford County to help this person. By the way, has anyone read and printed out the Paxton cem.?? This is another one I need as many of my mother's people are buried in Paxton and also Rankin. Any suggestions?