I recently received a request for help in finding a death certificate for William J. Quinn. It doesn't come up easily in search results at FamilySearch's Record Search even though it's there. QUINN, WILLIAM J 1892-01-21 CHICAGO 04 MO U 00014953 COOK Here's how I found it: I checked the Cook County Coroner's Inquest Index . If the name was there, William would have had a coroner's death certificate (different from the inquest) and I don't think those records are online. Searching "Quinn" and scanning for the death date, I didn't find a match. Next I used Stephen Morse's One Step access to the Illinois Statewide Death Index to find "Q" deaths for January 1892. (The certificate numbers for Chicago death records before 1916 group the records together by first letter of surname within each month.) I found a number of possibilities and so I chose the one that I though had the best chance of being indexed correctly: Charles Quinl
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