Vital Statistics Extracted From the
Belleville (Ill.) Daily Advocate
1927 - 1954

© Nancy Giles, Georgetown, Kentucky 1997 - 2007.
Generously donated to the St. Clair County (Illinois) Genealogical Society in 2008.

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SCCGS wishes to recognize Joy Fisher, Los Angeles, California, for her expertise and generosity
converting Mrs. Giles' information into a searchable online database.

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Extracted Data:

Name

Event (Adoption, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Divorce, Death)

Event date (Some dates are calculated using newspaper issue day or date as a guide to determine the event date

Newspaper Title (DA = Daily Advocate)

Newspaper date

Newspaper page

Newspaper column

Article title

More than 132,000 vital statistics derived from the Belleville (Ill.) Daily Advocate 1927 - 1954 constitute this database. It is an extremely valuable resource for ancestral material after the 1930 census.

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Wildcards

Use _ (an underscore) for one character replacement. Sm_th finds Smith, Smyth (for example).

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Please credit the source of information using the following suggested Reference Note format:

Nancy Giles, "Belleville (Ill.) Daily Advocate 1927 - 1954," database, St. Clair County (Ill.) Genealogical Society, Vital Statistics Extracted From the Belleville (Ill.) Daily Advocate 1927 - 1954 (www.stclair-ilgs.org/stclair/papers.php : [today's date] ), entry for [ancestor's name], ["Article or Headline Title"], [newspaper date, page, column].

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Indexes point to the original material which, in many cases, provides even more information.

The Belleville Daily Advocate newspaper on microfilm is available through

The Belleville Public Library
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPL) provides a photocopy service and lends newspaper microfilm. See the ALPL website, or contact your local library for lending arrangements.

After a photocopy of the original article is obtained, citations will refer to that photocopy rather than the database, as in the following example:

Jane Doe obituary, Belleville Daily Advocate, Belleville, Illinois, 1 January 1945, [section if applicable], page 1, column 3.

Note: Some articles contain more inforamation than others. Obituaries usually provide more information than a death notice. Some regular columns were just lists of names (such as one titled "Births" for example).

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