Try the Illinois State Death Index at: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/death.html Les I n a message dated 5/23/04 8:34:23 PM Central Daylight Time, puterbaugha@aol.com writes: > 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/Zh.2ADE/1960 > > Message Board Post: > > Is there a magic book of knowledge that has death dates of 1902? > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to discover the date of death with just > the year. > > Tombstone doesn't list dates. > > Marilyn Anderson, at the library thinks it would be like looking for a > needle in a haystack. > > Any ideas would be helpful. > Thanks > >