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Have you tried the Ask a Librarian at Morris Library, the Archive Depository?

http://libguides.lib.siu.edu/askalibrarian

No I haven’t, but I will give it a shot. Thank you! I will report back on what I find.

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/death.html#copies

Have you tried requesting a death search from the above?  It looks like they've completed the entry for Clinton Co. deaths 1877 - 1915.

I apologize for my late reply, I guess I missed my email notification. I have made two attempts by writing. The 2nd I sent by certified mail last year but no response. Its been a little frustrating.

Hello everyone,

I have been involved in genealogy for about 9 years now helping others with their family tree's and my own. As with everyone, I have had my own "Brick Walls" to negotiate and one of them had been my Great Grandfather on my Fathers side. I had invested much time on searching and analyzing information about him and finally had that break through moment. I was pretty ecstatic about this success and was ready to move on to the next challenge when I made a little discovery.

About 10 years ago, my Grandmother passed away and in her will I was given a record collection she had.. We used to enjoy listening to her records and she had told me "One of these days you will have these and will get to play them with your kids"... Well, that day came and I received the albums which I keep in the office. They are old 78's mostly from the Big Band and earlier eras and I have Victrola that I can us to play them. Yesterday, I had picked up one of the albums to play, one that I wasn't a big fan of but since I haven't played it since I received it I said maybe my taste has changed so lets give it a go.

I pulled the album out of the sleeve so I could I put on a player and a smaller album in a sleeve fell out with it... It hit the ground but fortunately it wasn't damaged. This was a head scratcher, what could this be?.. I don't ever remember my grandmother having album the size of a 45 before.. But I guess she apparently did.  I picked it up, and read that it was an NBC Studio New York Novelty Album made in 1931. I goggled what this Novelty record was about because I wasn't very familiar and found out there was machine that you could speak into and would put your voice on record. After taking a closer look it had my Great Grandfathers name on it!! That blew me away. I had invested huge amount of time researching him and felt like I knew him personally and now I would be able to hear his voice!!!

I'm a little afraid to put it on the Victrola to play because I think the the needle would damage the album and don't have standard turntable. What I would like to do is find a company that could assist me in taking the record and ultimately creating a audio file that could be played on a computer.

Is there anyone that has experience doing this or could advise me on the pitfalls if any in doing this?

I'm located in Texas.

Thank you in advance.

Not much help but an observation.

The 'i's seem to be dotted i.e. the surname of the bride may be Walless?

Annie

Do you think also that at the end of her name it maybe a “y” with how the writing dips down?  By the way,  your old Geneologist saying in your profile is hilarious.. :-)