This is basically correct, except the price is now $9.00. They also ask to see your driver's license (a copy will do.) The form is the same as mentioned below. Good luck, Jan At 10:23 AM 5/15/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi all, > >For marriage records write to: County Clerk of Will County, Will County >Office Bldg.,301 N. Chicago St., Room 150, Joliet, IL 60431 > >If you write to the Court ask for an Application for Search (which has >sections for Birth, Death and Marriage Records). This will tell you all you >need to supply - Name of Groom, name of bride, date of marriage, place of >marriage, number of copies. Include a SASE. In 1988 when I asked for a >marriage record the charge was $5.00 for each search. No personal checks >accepted. > >There is a large, handwritten index by both groom's name and bride's name, >as this is how I found my 2nd great-grandmother was married three times. >But that's another long story. > >You might ask and receive all the info without an initial letter, but if the >price has increased, or the form changed, you would know all you need to >know right from the beginning. > >Good luck. > >For anyone else searching Will Co. the first birth and death records to be >filed was December 1877. First marriage records were July 1836. > >Sharon in Surprise, AZ >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/l/Sharon-H-Galitz/index.html