If you read the whole story it says what will be available to the great unwashed masses is birth records 75 years old, death records 20 years old and marriage records 50 years old so it is within the laws and can be the actual record, no need for abstracts. I am assuming they digitalized everything. Only those within the law will be available. Logan County has no plans to digitalize their records unfortunately. Some of the probate files have been microfilmed because they ran out out of space to store the records. Let me say their records were microfilmed by a microfilm person and not a probate person so things are difficult to find, very time consuming and after a couple hours the staffer had only located one of the probates on the microfilm where it was supposed to be. We found some interesting things along the way though. Some of the records Logan County has in their marriage index could not be located. Some of the early record books are very fragile. There ARE some land records which survived the fire. On 9/11/07, cheryl kale <cheryl_kale2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Cheryl, > > Guess we've got to agree to disagree on this one. It seems pretty clear > to me and to others on my lists that they "digitized" the millions of birth, > marriage and death records that had been in storage. Digitized records are > not abstracts. Abstracts are created from manual entry of certain data. > > My main concern is how much will be charged for these records. I sure > hope they reduce it because they no longer need to manually look for them; > we'll be doing the searches. We'll see.....historically Chicago/Cook > Archives raise fees as much as the market will bear. > > I sure hope you get good news from Logan. I'd love to see some > automation helping us there. I started indexing one of the wills/probate > films from LDS but have not been able to complete it. I've got it on > permanent loan, paying $16.50 for that privilege, and I can't get there. > Maybe LDS will digitize those? Or maybe Logan Co will. > > Cheryl > > 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. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who > knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > ________ > 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 >