Hello, McLean Co IL Researchers! I need some advice from people who are much better acquainted than I am with how things work in McLean Co IL officialdom. My great-grandparents, Ernst Julius Guenther and wife Anna Rosalie Ullrich, bought a house at 305 Mason Street in Normal, McLean Co IL in 1921 and sold it in 1935. I'd like to have a copy of the deed in which they bought this house and a copy of the deed in which they sold this house. But the LDS Church appears not to have microfilmed any of this county's deed books or index to grantors or index to grantees, if such indexes exist. Do grantors' and grantees' indexes exist for McLean Co IL? I infer that they might not exist, because when I telephoned the Register of Deeds office, I was told that to locate these deeds would involve a "search" and I'd need to hire a professional to do this "search". If they do have grantors' and grantees' indexes, this "search" would take about one minute per deed, so surely they wouldn't have suggested that I hire a genealogist, would they? These are my only ancestors who ever lived in this county, so I am not very familiar with how you do things. In other counties where my ancestors did live, I'd just order the grantors' and grantees' indexes from my local LDS Family History Centre and locate the names, and then order the microfilm of the relevant deed book and take the copy myself on their microfilm reader printer. Here in England, we have to wait about four months for the microfilms to get here, but once they arrive, the "search" takes less than five minutes' time. So, my usual modus operandi won't work for McLean Co IL. I can't afford to fly from England to Illinois just to visit this Register of Deeds office to do this myself, so if I have to hire a genealogist to do this task, about how much time do you think it would take to locate the deed book number and page when the full names and years are known, and how much would I expect to have to pay? Thank you for any advice! Hopefully, Lin Van Buren Saint Leonard's on Sea, England