How do i get access to Illinois public court records?

Question

I AM LOOKING FOR MY MOMS BIRTH MOM, I AM HOPING TO GET THEM IN TOUCH, THEY HAVENT SEEN EACH OTHER IN 48 YRS. MY MOMS BIRTHDAY IS COMING AND I AM JUST TRYING TO FIND HER. ALL I KNOW IS HER NAME WHICH IS WANESSA BATES, THAT WAS HER MAIDEN NAME, SHE COULD BE MARRIED BY NOW, BUT I WAS HOPING ANYONE HAD IDEAS HOW TO TRACK HER DOWN. LAST I KNEW SHE WAS IN ILLINOIS SO I WAS THINKING MAYBE THE PUBLIC COURT RECORDS... PLEASE HELP!!!

Answer 1

There's no record of anyone named Wanessa with any last name who is over 52 y/o in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa or Florida. There is one person in Ohio who is 54, but I'm thinking she's a little young to be a mother of someone adopted at least 48 years ago. Court records won't help you find someone today. She wouldn't have had to give a SSN on a birth certificate or adoption record over 35 years ago. Any address that she gave then is clearly long gone. I did a public record search and she's not showing up, not even in property ownership records. There are also no published marriage records for her.

My suggestion is that you start at the Chicago Public Library with old city directories. Figure out where she lived and move forward, year by year, until she's no longer published in a directory. Then go to the Cook County Clerk's Office downtown and ask for a marriage license. You'll need to have an approximate year or they won't pull the record on just a maiden name. Then ask them to cross-reference to see if there was any notification of divorce attached to the marriage record (they don't give it to you automatically). Pay for a copy of the marriage license application and see what information you get off of it. If you're lucky, there's a SSN on it and you can write a letter to her through the Social Security Letter Forwarding program...or find out if she's no longer alive, though I don't find evidence of that, either.

Answer 2

You may want to search at: http://zabasearch.com