{"id":1954,"date":"2016-01-29T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2016-01-29T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T18:35:21","slug":"cook-county-il-death-1878-1994-index-more-than-decedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Cook County IL Death (1878-1994) Index More than Decedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cookdeaths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1955 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cookdeaths-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"cookdeaths\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cookdeaths-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cookdeaths.jpg 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>FamilySearch includes a database of <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1463134?collectionNameFilter=false\">Cook County, Illinois deaths between 1878 and 1994<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This database <em><strong>appears<\/strong> <\/em>to search (when information is contained in the original record):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>name of deceased<\/li>\n<li>name of father<\/li>\n<li>name of mother<\/li>\n<li>name of spouse<\/li>\n<li>informant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are of course limitations with transcriptions made from old death certificates and there are no images. But the index a great finding aid for Chicago area people.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1957\">search tip for\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>may come in helpful as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch includes a database of Cook County, Illinois deaths between 1878 and 1994. This database appears to search (when information is contained in the original record): name of deceased name of father name of mother name of spouse informant There are of course limitations with transcriptions made from old death certificates and there are no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}