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.

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. <g> 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 <cheryl_kale2000@yahoo.com> 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 >

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.