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- Recordation of Deaths in Illinois
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The first legislation in Illinois regarding recordation of births and deaths was enacted in 1819 at the second session of the First General Assembly. [Laws of Illinois1819, p. 233) This law established medical societies to which all physicians were required to belong and made it the duty of every physician to keep a record of births, deaths and dis...
Death certificates show the name, age, sex, marital status, and race of the deceased; the places of birth, death and burial; the dates of death and burial; the cause of death; the date filed; and the signature of the physician and the registrar. Death record or register show the name, race, marital status, age, sex, and occupation of the deceased; ...
Name of Decedent: 1. INF — Infant 2. REV — Reverend 3. SIS — Sister Age: 1. DA — Day 2. MN — Minutes 3. MO — Month 4. SB — Stillbirth 5. UNK — Unknown or Unspecified 6. YR — Year City: 1. HOSP — Hospital 2. PRECT or PCT — Precinct 3. TWP — Township Sex: 1. F — Female 2. M — Male 3. U — Unspecified
Copies of death records included in the Pre-1916 Illinois Statewide Death Index may be obtained from the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System if IRAD holds death records for that county or from the county clerk in the county where the death occurred. Copies of death records before 1916 are not available from the Reference Unit of the Illino...
List of counties and date spans currently included in the Illinois Statewide Death IndexPhotocopies of death certificates dated on or after January 1, 1916, can be obtained by: Visiting the Illinois State Archives Reference Room. The State Archives only holds microfilm copies of death certificates for 1916-1947. To locate a death certificate in our Reference Room, the following information from the database will be needed ...
Edwards County – Vital Records – Index for the 1860/1870 Mortality Schedules : State of Illinois & Counties of Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, and Wayne, at FS. Edwards County – Vital Records – Index to Death Books 1-4, Edwards County, Illinois, Dec. 1877 – Apr. 1933, at FS.
Bureau County Online Genealogy Search Indexes birth certificates (75 years or older), marriage licenses (50 years or older), and death certificates (20 years or older). Requires free registration. You can order copies of the records for a fee. Cass County Deaths, 1878-1915. Centralia - see Marion County below.
You will have to rely on dates and certificate numbers. Certificate numbers are: (1) often in the upper-right-hand corner of the death certificate when cities are listed; (2) often in the upper-left-hand corner for county records (3) sometimes at the top & in the middle of the certificate; (4) generally arranged by day, month and year of the event.
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The lists below are specific death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of Illinois. Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection.
