Affirmative on the Illinois Marriage Records. This information came from Dr. Daley at the ISGS Board meeting on Saturday but no time frame was established. The funding of the project will be the next step. With other data bases currently on the server, it simply will not handle the load of adding the marriage records at this time. Death records? I need to check on this. Joan At 06:15 PM 5/18/99 -0400, you wrote: >I was given this information. I hope it is true. Joan, do you know more >about this? > >ISGS and the Secretary of State are working to get the Illinois Marriage >index online. The server needs to be upgraded to handle the traffic but >everyone is in agreement to proceed. Not sure of the time frame but even if >it takes 3-6 months the end result will include even more than is on any of >the >CD-ROMs. > >Regarding Deaths there is a major effort underway to approach the Governor >about having the Dept of Public Health release the Death Index for posting >on the web. > >Births are one area that will not be addressed on a statewide scale since >they are protected for 75 years and in some counties not recorded much >before that. > >Cheryl Rothwell >LoganCty@mindspring.com >Coordinator, Logan County, ILGenWeb Project >http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm >Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L-request@rootsweb.com >Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L-request@rootsweb.com >Harding mailing list> HARDING-L-request@rootsweb.com >Downing query board> >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Downing >Lucas query board> >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Lucas > > >==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== >Logan County is on roll 200 of the 1860 Census. It takes the whole roll. > > > >