At 10:23 AM 4/19/2006, Bill Waterhouse <wm.r.waterhouse(a)mailstation.com> wrote:
<SNIP> I recently spent the better part of a year attempting to
find the
burial places of an
ancestor, a CW veteran, & his wife who both died in Chicago, with-
out success. A search of the cemeteries in & around Chicago & of
the National Cemeteries yielded no results either. <SNIP>
The State of Illinois has a vast amount of genealogical info on-line through
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/services.html.
Should you
order your ancestors death certificates, more likely than not, the name of
the cemetery could be listed. Exceptions would be incorrect spellings of
names (ancestor or town or cemetery). ALSO, name might be on death
certificates, but won't show on any cemetery lists, IF the ancestor didn't
have a headstone or cemetery had previously been vandalized. Some river
towns were flooded in the late 19th century, wiping out everything,
including cemeteries. Those are the reasons why I can't find two of my
great-great-grandparents. :-(
Good Luck!!
FIRST IN SUPPORT!
Rita Hawkins
100% S/C Disabled Gulf War Veteran
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war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they
perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their
nation."
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