Additional Research Sites Options

[Adrienne Inman]

The following site allows you to look up bmd's in Wisconsin. The site is free unless you order a certificate.

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/
From there you click on Vital Records Home
Then enter a surname & pick a county or just leave it blank. If you come up with one spouse, at the bottom of the information you can click on "Search for possible spouse matches." Search for possible spouse matches]

If you just enter the name Inman, you will come up with all Inman birth, deaths, marriages up to 1907 - at least those that registered.

The following url allows you to check city newspapers on microfilm at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. http://www.illinoishistory.gov/lib/newspaper.htm

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library site is not the easiest to navigate. This is the url that gets you to the point where you can enter the name of a town in Illinois where a newspaper is located. Once you find the town and click on it the site downloads a pdf document that tells you what years are on microfilm for all of the newspapers in that town and the years covered by each.

Following is the url for the State of Illinois Archives database for bmd's. Free site unless you order a certificat.
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departme.../databases.html
Just scroll down and click on any of the following:

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives & the Illinois State Genealogical Society

Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre–1916
An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives

Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1950)
An index created by the Illinois Department of Public Health

Adrienne Inman