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Death Certificates, Obituaries, Cemetery Records, and Family Bibles, record the place and day our ancestors died. A few online places to look for death records:

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Search Old Newspapers for Obituaries & Death Noticesat ancestry.com
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Beardstown IL, Flood, Oct 1926   Mattoon, IL Tornado 1911

 

Illinois Death Records

Illinois Mortality Schedules 1850-1880 at ancestry.com, use this free trial to access the records.

Social Security Death Index updated

Illinois State Archives Database of Death Certificates, 1916–1950

Cook Co., IL Partial Death Index 1871-1916 Rootsweb database

Death Records from Will County, Illinois 1900s Rootsweb database

Henry County Funeral Homes from the Henry Co., ILGenWeb

Vital Records, 4 Sept 1884, Chicago Tribune

Vital Records, 5 Sept 1884, Chicago Tribune

Vital Records, 6 Sept 1884, Chicago Tribune

Family Data Collection - Deaths

Death Records Database at Rootsweb

Cemetery Records Database at Rootsweb

Illinois Tombstone Project, cemetery transcriptions & photos, part of the USGenWeb

Glenwood Cemetery Veteran Markers, Collinsville, Illinois Rootsweb database

Wunders Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois

East Lynn & Rankin Union Cemeteries- Vermillion County, IL at ancestry.com, use this free trial to access the records.

Piatt County, Illinois Marriage and Cemetery Records, 1841-53 at ancestry.com, use this free trial to access the records.

Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials at ancestry.com, use this free trial to access the records.

Search for Death Records at familysearch.org

Obituaries

Obituaries Database at Rootsweb

Illinois Obituary Project

Henry County, IL Obituaries and Funeral Notices Archive from the Henry Co., ILGenWeb  More obituaries

Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Union County, IL Obituary and Death Notice Index
1858-1899
from the Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois

Search Recent Obituaries Search 2003-2007 obituaries from 105 Illinois newspapers  at Ancestry.com, use this free trial to access the records.

 
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Illinois Message Boards at Rootsweb, searchable, post queries and view submitted data

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Search WorldConnect Database at Rootsweb, over 385,000 names on file

ILGenWeb Illinois Genealogy, website for each county in Illinois

Search the ILGenWeb Archives all kinds of records - obituaries, cemetery records, books, military records

Search Old Yearbooks and Class Rosters at old-yearbooks.com

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