NEW PUBLICATION - POPE COUNTY ILLINOIS DEATH RECORDS, 1877 - 1915 WITH ANNOTATIONS

A massive project, this book contains all deaths recorded in Pope County Death Register #1 and #2. It compares the entries in the Registers with the death certificates themselves on file at the courthouse. Many times there is additional information there! This is MUCH MORE DETAIL THAN WHAT IS ONLINE! 

Information includes name of deceased, age, sometimes date of birth, marital status, place of birth, how long a resident of the state, place of death, cause of death, complication, duration of disease, place of burial, undertaker, physician, informant (when given), names of parents (when given) including maiden name of mother. Any discrepancy between the register and the certificate is noted. The transcription is supplemented by additional annotations from extensive research conducted.

This book provides the researcher with all the information available from the two Death Register books as well as the actual death certificates. Each death certification on file in the County Clerk's office was meticulously compared to what is in the Register. For example, sometimes the Register records a birthplace as Germany, but the actual death certificate provides the town of birth!  Sometimes the death register records only the state of birth while the certificate records the precise county of birth!

Separate Index for Deceased Person, Undertaker, Physicians, and All Others Mentioned (including Parents and Informants). The book is 398 pages plus Preface, Hardbound, and sells for $65 postpaid. Libraries may be billed.

Copies of the book may be ordered online (via Paypal) by clicking on the Services tab on this website or by sending a check to: Backstory Bloodhound, LLC, P.O. Box 133, Metropolis, IL  62960

If you have a question about the book, please e-mail me at rick@backstorybloodhound.com - I WILL NOT DO SPECIFIC LOOKUPS in the book, however.

This project involved many hours of work and is dedicated to the Memory of Mary Ellen HEMPHILL YOUNG who gave me her copies of the death registers MANY years ago and asked me to publish them. Unfortunately this pioneer of the Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois passed in 2019.  I am very glad to have it now completed and hope it is beneficial to researchers with Pope County ancestry.