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Searching for Illinois birth records, Illinois census records, Illinois marriage records, or Illinois death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Illinois Genealogy Databases
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Illinois Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Illinois vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Illinois vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Illinois ancestors using Illinois census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Illinois Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Illinois) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: certified
copy: $15.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since January 1916. For earlier records and for copies of State records since January 1916, write to County Clerk in county where event occurred (county fees vary). The fee for a search of the State files is $10.00. If the record is found, one certification is issued at no additional charge. Additional certifications of the same record ordered at the same time are $2.00 each. The fee for a full certified copy is $15.00. Additional certified copies of the same record ordered at the same time are $2.00 each. Money orders, certified checks, or personal checks should be made payable to Illinois Department of Public Health. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (217) 782-6553. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at Illinois Department of Public Health. Event: Marriage Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Marriage Index since January 1962. Selected items may be verified (fee $5.00). Certified copies are NOT available from State office. For certified copies, write to the County Clerk in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Divorce Index since January 1962. Selected items may be verified (fee $5.00). Certified copies are NOT available from State office. For certified copies, write to the Clerk of Circuit Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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