Cook County
The Rest of Paul Harvey’s Story–Conclusion
Paul Harvey Aurandt eventually overcame the murder of his father, a Tulsa police officer, when Paul was just a toddler. That murder spun off a series of bizarre incidents in the State of Oklahoma: A lynch mob demanded that the Tulsa County sheriff prove that the accused were not in the jail. They dispersed after their hand-picked “inspection committee,” which …
March 12, 2009 Thursday at 8:58 pm
FamilySearch Adds Midwestern Records
FamilySearch Record Search has added marriage records for Cook County, Illinois. The collection is currently what FamilySearch calls an “early access collection,” meaning that the collection is accessible though not yet entirely complete. What’s there now are records from 1900-1920. The entire collection ulitmately will go back to 1871. [H/T to Tom Kemp at the GenealogyBank blog]. And while we’re …
December 18, 2008 Thursday at 5:04 pm
