The Illinois State Archives has death certificates, but only from 1916 - 1945. You can write/phone/fax your request to the following: Illinois State Archives Reference Unit Margaret Cross Norton Building Capitol Complex Springfield, IL 62756 Telephone: (217) 782-3556 Fax: (217) 524-3930 OR, to make it really easy, you can visit the following URL and complete the request form you will find there. http://www2.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/arcreq.s Hope this helps, Karima Proud Rootsweb Donor & Owner/List Administrator of: Illinois Roots Discussion List (ILROOTS-L) http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/Illinoismailinglist.htm Southern Illinois Discussion List (SOIL-L) http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/SOIL.htm J a c k s o n County, Illinois Discussion List (ILJACKSO-L) http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/JacksonCoWelcome.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Cooper" <pcooper@peaknet.net> To: <ILMASSAC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:40 PM Subject: [ILMASSAC] Free death certificates > Hi everyone can you still get free death certificates from certain years > from the state of illinois if so does some kind soul out there have the > e-mail address. > > > thanks pattie >