This is a Act of Kindness Calif. Death Index between 1940 to 1997 http://usedb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search/cgi Ohio Genealogical Society in Mansfield, OH a lending library hrrp://www.ogs.org Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. a very large library of books and family histories, family newsletters, publication, state and territorial records online. All Polk directories in cluding ones from large cities for 178 to present http;//www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Newberry Library (Chicago, Il. very large library with 1 1/2 million volumes, 75,000 maps, on line catalog after 1978, good New England and British Isles Collections, closed stacks and non circulation, emphasis in the Mississippi valley area population.) http:// www.newberry.org and http://www.newberry.org/vtls/english/vtls.html Chicago Historical Society Research library http:// www.state lib.lib.in.us/ Illinois Historical Society Library Springfield, Il. http:// www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/ Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis Http://www.2.ihs1830/ihs.html The Filson Club Historical Society, LouisVille, Ky Kentucky Collections, newspaper clipping 4000 surnames and correspondences 3,500 family historical http://www.filsonclub.org/ Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville Ky http://ufpl.org/ http://ifpl.org/lochist.htm http://greneal.htm Kentucky Historical society, frankfort, Ky Kentucky records military, land,church, bible, census,tax court, state histories http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khs/