The link yielded me a page not found Cheryl Rothwell <historysleuth@gmail.com> wrote: The Tribune is a pain in the rear. They only keep those available a short period. I saw this on another list referencing a WGN story. It is unclear whether these are the documents or an abstract. The law remains 75 years on birth and 20 on death so one would assume they are abstracts but you just never know. As downstaters have always known, Cook County is a law until itself. I will be discussing this with the Logan County Clerks today and tomorrow to see if they have any such plans. They have already microfilmed a lot of old files. On 9/10/07, cheryl kale wrote: > > Hi List, > > Though this is not directly related to Logan, I know many of you have > ties to Cook County. I just wanted you to know that there was a press > release last Thursday; BMD will be placed online in January, if all goes as > planned! > > I knew a project was in the works, but I had no idea it was this > massive. The records have already been digitized, and are being loaded to > the server at the rate of ONE MILLION per week! Unreal! I sure hope it > doesn't crash. > > For more info here is the url: > www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-digitize_websep07,0,401232.story > > Please note the hyphen as well as the underscore; those are zeroes in > the above. > > I hope this helps some of you. > > Cheryl Kale > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car > Finder tool. > ________ > Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com > with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ________ Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan To unsubscribe send a message to: ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Life is not a dress rehearsal!