Macoupin County Clerk & Recorder (Pete Duncan): Military Discharge Records Recorded and Certified Copies Free
The Macoupin County Clerk & Recorder (Pete Duncan, the county's 27th clerk and recorder, elected 2010 at age 24) records military discharges at the courthouse, 201 E. Main, 1st Floor, Carlinville (P.O. Box 107; 217-854-3214): certified copies are issued free - 'There is no charge for certified copies issued' - to the veteran or the listed next of kin (a surviving spouse who has not remarried, father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother) on the state-required request form, and the office publishes a searchable public index of discharges filed sixty-two years or longer ago.
Also called: County Clerk, Recorder, Pete Duncan, DD-214, DD214, military discharge, certified copies, no charge, next of kin, 62 years, discharge index, 201 E. Main, 217-854-3214, Carlinville, 55 ILCS 5/3-5015, Carlinville, Staunton, Girard, Mount Olive, Bunker Hill, Benld, Gillespie, Shipman, Brighton, Medora.
The rules are the State's; see the Illinois entry on 55 ILCS 5/3-5015 and on the confidentiality of recorded discharges. The county's own Military Discharge Records page:
"Who May Obtain A Copy: A Military Veteran, or next of kin of a deceased, former Member of the Military. The next of kin can be any of the following: Surviving spouse that has not remarried, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, Sister, Brother. Fees: There is no charge for certified copies issued. What You Need: 1.) You MUST fill out a request form as required by state law. 2.) Submit the form to the following address: By Mail: Macoupin County Recorder, P.O. Box 107, Carlinville, IL 62626. In Person: Macoupin County Recorder, 201 E. Main, 1st Floor of Courthouse, Carlinville, IL 62626."
The public index. "Publicly Available Discharge Index. Begriming [sic] in 2019, state law allows for any military discharge filed 62 years or longer ago to be available to the public. Below is a index of all discharges filed at least that long ago. We will attempt to add the discharge as a link once we make sure any private information, such as social security numbers, have been redacted. For now, you can search this index to find our relatives and send in a request for their record." - a Socrata-powered index, the sixty-two-year rule the county puts into practice.
The office. The Clerk & Recorder's site: "Macoupin County Clerk, 201 E Main St, P.O. Box 107, Carlinville, IL 62626, P: (217) 854-3214", with the Recorder's Office pages (recording information, recording fees, e-recording, online land records, property fraud guard) beside it. "Meet Pete. Pete Duncan is Macoupin County's 27th County Clerk and Recorder. He was elected in 2010 at the age of 24, making him the youngest county elected official in Macoupin history and one of the youngest county officials in the history of Illinois." The fee schedule the recorder publishes prices conveyances and non-conveyances by page and names no discharge line at all - the free copy rests on the page above and on the statute.
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Certified copies of recorded discharges go free to the veteran or to a surviving spouse who has not remarried, father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother, on the state’s request form. The rating filter never hides this entry.
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