If an error is found on the birth certificate, this form may be completed and mailed to Springfield Vital Records. Springfield Vital Records determines the fee s for correction, and processing time depends on the corrections being made. If incorrect paternal information appears on the birth certificate, this form must be completed by both parties and submitted to Springfield Vital Records so that the incorrect information can be corrected or removed from the birth certificate.
Application for Birth Certificate. Please note that express couriers will not ship to a P. A certified copy of a birth certificate that can typically be used for passport, travel, proof of citizenship, social security, driver's license, school registration, personal identification and other legal purposes. Birth Certificates are available for events that occurred in Cook County within the last 75 years.
Recent events take up to two months before they are available. VitalChek is the authorized external ordering source for fast, secure vital records processed directly with the issuing government agency at the lowest cost available online.
We process all of our orders through secure online data connections with the issuing government agencies. Illinois State IDs are also free for people who are homeless in Illinois. You will still be required to prove your identity, but this form serves as proof of residency and waives the fee for the ID.
It must be filled out by a homeless service provider or an attorney. There are no certificates available. For detailed information about these records, including additional search tips, please see Chicago Birth Registers, on the right.
Many early entries do not include children's given name s. You may need to search using parent names, including the mother's maiden name. If you are at home, you will see an "Image Unavailable" message. You can visit a family history center or an affiliate library to access the record image or request a copy of the image using the Family History Library Record Lookup Service form.
It's also possible the name was missed or misspelled in the index. To double-check, browse the Chicago Birth Register images at a family history center or affiliate library. They are grouped by year, month, and first letter of surname. If a delayed birth certificate was filed, it's evience tht a birth record might not have been created at the time of event.
If you find birth register index entries for births , look for the original birth certificate instead of the birth register pages which were created by copying information from the original records. Follow the instructions listed under the tab. Unless you need a certified copy of a birth register entry, there's usually no need to submit a request to the Cook County Clerk's Office.
If you do, you are likely to receive register information that has been copied onto a birth certificate form.
This was the approach to requests for early death register information a number of years ago. Cook County has birth certificates from forward and they are available for genealogical purposes if they are seventy-five years or older. Birth certificates through previously available on microfilm are available on FamilySearch. Some birth certificates after , including delayed birth certificates, are also available there. Coverage dates change as new record images are added to the database, so check the website for current availability.
If so, good news! If you are at home, you may see an "Image Unavailable" message. This means the image should be available if you visit a family history center or an affiliate library. If you're not able to make the trip, you can request a copy of the image using the Family History Library Record Lookup Service form. If the FamilySearch index doesn't include an image link, you can request a copy of the record from the Cook County Clerk's Office for a fee.
If you don't find a match for a pre birth , try checking the Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, index. If you find a match, follow the directions under the tab to locate the record. The birth register entries are arranged in a way that makes it easy to skim for births beginning with the first letter of a surname for a particular month and year.
Doing this is a good way to rule out the possiblity of a name misspelling or a missing index entry. If you don't find an index match for a birth after , try searching the Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, at Ancestry.
If your efforts to find an index match are unsuccessful and you want to make sure the search has been thorough, you can ask the Cook County Clerk's Office to check for the record by mailing in the Cook County Genealogical Request Form with the appropriate fee.
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