Jane, I charge $3.00 for each death certificate I get (I do not charge for any that I am unable to locate) to cover the fee the Archives charges for copies, postage, and other research expenses. If these charges are OK, send me a reply e-mail and let me know your snail mail address. I should be able to get these 2 death certificates next week on my next trip to the Archives (weather permitting) and will mail them to you as soon as I get them with a "bill" for the $6.00 charge. Mary Rottmann rottmann@hotmail.com >From: Jane Westerkamm <Jane@nut-n-but.net> >Reply-To: ILKANE-L@rootsweb.com >To: ILKANE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Free Death Certificates >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:35:58 -0500 > >Mary, I have two death certificates that I would appreciate getting. >They are > >Martin June Lee F/W UNK 4810277 1930-09-04 Rock Island > >Lee George W M/W UNK 0810035 1928-02-16 Rock Island > >What kind of costs are involved? Jane in Florida > > >Mary Rottmann wrote: > > > > The Illinois State Archives was sending out free death certificates >until 15 > > Nov 2002, at which time they stopped the service as they were about >19,000 > > requests behind. As of 10 Jan 2003, they still had 17,855 requests to >fill > > and were working on requests that had come in the first week in June, >2002. > > I would think that it will be almost 6 months until they get to the >August > > requests, as there are only 3 Archives staff members who do these >requests > > and 2 of those staff members were just hired to replace employees who >took > > early retirement the end of 2002. > > > > Now the only ways to get death certificates from the State of Illinois >is to > > either go to the Illinois State Archives in person or send a $10.00 > > non-refundable search fee to the Illinois Department of Public Health. >If > > you are too far from Springfield to go there yourself, I have offered my > > services to get death certificates that anyone on the list may need. > > > > Mary Rottmann > > rottmann@hotmail.com > > > > >From: "howard/laura" <hfreeman@sktc.net> > > >Reply-To: ILKANE-L@rootsweb.com > > >To: ILKANE-L@rootsweb.com > > >Subject: [ILKANE] Free Death Certificates > > >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:00:49 -0600 > > > > > >Does anyone know if the Illinois Genealogy Society is still honoring >the > > >request for Free Death certificates it was doing last summer? I sent > > >request in August when they were doing them and still have not received >the > > >certificates. > > >Laura > > > > > > > > >==== ILKANE Mailing List ==== > > >Software and hardware for this list are provided courtesy of RootsWeb. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > ==== ILKANE Mailing List ==== > > The companion web site for this list is found at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilkane a part of the ILGenWeb Project. > > >==== ILKANE Mailing List ==== >You can contact the list administrator for this list by sending a > message to mailto:ILKANE-admin@rootsweb.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail