This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1533.1 Message Board Post: Illinois was not required to record deaths before about the middle of 1916. Although death records did start in Grundy County in 1877, they were hit and miss. The Grundy County death index does not contain any name resembling Zahradka. Lea