The Illinois State Archives and the Illinois State Genealogical Society cooperatively provide an online index to Illinois marriage records from 1763 to 1900 http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/marriage.html The Indiana State Library provides an online index to Indiana marriages through 1850. http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html The University of Kentucky has online indexes to Kentucky marriages & divorces for 1973-1993; and Kentucky deaths from 1911 to 1982. http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/ The Maine State Archives has an online index to Maine marriages from 1892 to 1922 http://thor.ddp.state.me.us/archives/plsql/archdev.Marriage_Archive.search_f orm This site also lists death records from 1960 to 1996. http://thor.ddp.state.me.us/archives/plsql/archdev.death_archive.search_form The Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System (GENDIS) is an excellent example. It includes abstracts to more than 150,000 Michigan death records from 1867-1882. http://www.mdmh.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/gendis/index.htm The Texas State Bureau of Vital Statistics now provides online indexes to its death records from 1964 to 1998. http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/deathidx/deathidx.htm