I just discovered there is one other option. Look up the death cert on the IL State Archives site, then order the corresponding film from the LDS through your local Family History Center. They have them all filmed. The film rental is just $3.25. Be sure to make note of all the info from the webpage to order the correct film. You can find the right film to order using the LDS on-line catalog at www.familysearch.org Good luck. Juli Claussen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Rottmann" <rottmann@hotmail.com> To: <ILKANE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:10 AM Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Free Death Certificates > 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. >