Genealogy Chat

Ive just trawled cyndis list and it looks like youre unlucky with marriage records with Illinois-other states have readily accessible marriage records up to 1944 and similar,some 1907. illinois seems to stop at 1900,and after that youll need to pay. I was trying to find her maiden name this way. Have looked in various newspaper obituries ,found neither ethel nor samuel,and tried one of the publications that has extensive bmd records,again no luck. On Roots web,there are 5 submitters who have the davis name tracked to illinois from the 1800's to 1900's or present day-might be worth contacting them to see if theres anything. ****NB The shortlist of deaths last night seems comprehensive for cook county-that site is used by the Illinois state genealogical society,and is a government organisation anyway. Where the ambiguity lies is in you not knowing if she died where she resided.

Rosalyn: There is a lot to be had by ordering, online, the information available at the Social Security Death Index. There should be a link by the name you looked up that will allow you to order the informaion and there is also a link advising you of what kind of information can be obtained from the SSDI. Judy

How bizarre.........!!!! I think i went in a different way lol............... TYPE >>>>>>>>> usa death records CLICK ON>>>>>>'online searchable death indexes for the usa' there should now be a list of the states in alphabetical order,scroll down till you see Illinois-this should be in blue lettering on a white background. see.... Online Chicago & Cook County etc.......(has its own link) Then you should be in on the site..(theres a whole load more on that site aswell if you scroll down-all sorts of stuff)

Alter, and Crista went onto the site and it was porn! Rosalyn

Thanks, Alter and Crista. Rosalyn

been there done it crista !!

Rosalyn, You can search here: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.*com/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html Remove the * Last Name First Name Middle Name Sex/Race Age Cert Death Date County City Date Filed DAVIS ETHEL F/W UNK 6008981 1930-03-23 COOK CHICAGO 30-03-26 DAVIS ETHEL F/N UNK 6021839 1931-07-22 COOK CHICAGO 31-07-23 DAVIS ETHEL F/N UNK 6020628 1932-08-01 COOK CHICAGO 32-08-02 DAVIS ETHEL F F/W UNK 0009586 1947-03-24 COOK CHICAGO - - Crista

The site states that the death is registered where it happened rather than where the person was residing,and that deaths after 1947 arent available from the archives in the form of a cert. There are 2 Ethel F davis deaths-one specifies Florence,Cook ,Chicago......but they are both wrong-one is 1917,the other 1947. There are Ethel Davis deaths 1930-1944>>>>>>>>(no initial) 22-7-1931 cook chicago 1-8-1932 cook chicago there are 2 others that werent registered in cook,one in elgin st hospital. THIS IS FROM THE ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES SITE so is presumably complete-the search i did covered all areas-it does allow you to just do Cook on its own,but my list covered all bases.

Thanks again -she was Ethel F. Davis and died between 1930 and 1944 as Sam remarried when his second wife was widowed in 1943. She was on 1930 census so it probably wasn`t 1930 Rosalyn

ive found 17 in cook county with that name up to 1950-any way i can narrow down the figure?her middle name would help me find her death lol

Thank you, Alter. If you could find Ethel`s maiden name it would be useful too. Their date of marriage was about 1909 Rosalyn

it wants 30 dollars off me for membership!! as the saying goes -if it sounds too good to be true-it usually is............give me half an hour and i'll look for other sites.

Thanks-it`s ETHEL DAVIS probably Chicago, Cook Count, Illinois She was married to SAMUEL , her dob about 1888. He married my great aunt when she died-trying to find that date too. Rosalyn

im just playing round with a new site called web investigator-can you supply surname and town/city?

Just nudging

Could anyone tell me where to find above?I`ve looked on IGI Deaths -Social Security. It was in ILLINIOS . Thanks, Rosalyn