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.