Thank you for this information. It is greatly appreciated I can assure you. I have all the dates and the accident was in Waukegan. I need to find the names of the relevant newspapers now. This is a wonderful site and such helpful people. Happy Hunting, Jean. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Urban" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: [[ILLAKE]: ] Re: [[ILLAKE]: ] Re: [[ILLAKE]: ] Newspapers. > To Jean in Victoria Canada, > > I've been following your query. If you know where the accident occurred and > the newspaper it was printed in, it may be available from a local library. > As an example I was looking for a relative who died in the 1940's. The > Waukegan Public Library has a free service, and they will do obituary > searches for you, as long as you have an approximate date of death. When > they did a search for me, they found a news article about the death instead > of an obituary. They sent me a copy of it. I have done a large portion of > my queries via e-mail. There are a tremendous amount of resources available > on the internet for Illinois. > > Mary >