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From: "Sheldon Jones" <>
Subject: RE: [ILJEFFER-L] Re: Cooks - Land Records
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 22:53:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: <002601c0b959$e99bbea0$b2781b3f@earthlink.net>


Just an FYI - land records in Illinois are on-line via:

http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html
and then:
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/data_lan.html

(Theophilus COOK shows up several times...)

-SRJ


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juli Claussen & Tim Damian [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:40 PM
> To:
> Subject: [ILJEFFER-L] Re: Cooks
>
>
> For those of you researching Cooks---I recently reviewed a microfilm at my
> LDS Family History Center of Jefferson Co. Land Records Indexes. I remember
> seeing Theophilus and other Cooks in the Grantee Index several times. These
> indexes give the land description and date of purchase also, so you could
> pinpoint where the various Cooks lived in relation to each other, and that
> might indicate whether they were directly related to each other. You can
> rent a different film then to look up the actual deed, if you like.
> Sometimes the deeds provide other interesting info, such as where the buyer
> or seller currently resides, if not in that county, if there were
> improvements on the property, and whether it was a court ordered sale to pay
> debts, etc. Good luck!j
> Juli Claussen
>
>
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