This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wh.2ADE/1875 Message Board Post: I looked at cc office -- nothing. I stopped at the library in Anna -- nothing. I stopped at the Gazette-Democrat Newspaper Office and they keep for only 5 years. She told me you need to check with either Southern Illinois University or in Springfield, Illinois. I am with the assumption you wanted only obituaries and not death record. sjp