In a message dated 03/29/2000 4:42:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > My question is..... according to the official FL Vital Statistics site, > it says they have "limited" deaths since 1877. Another site (not the > official site) said they only had deaths since 1917. > > I'm sending for the 1900 death of Nicholas in the morning.... but how > best to go about getting information on the 1877 and 1899 deaths? > > Anyone have any experience in getting certs that old? Are they > microfilmed by LDS (I can't use online catalog with webtv, it won't > work), or available at the WFGL? Escambia County was one of the original Counties and includes the city of Pensacola. Pensacola was fortunate to have an organized Board of Health , beginnin as early as the 1870's, as did a number of other cities in Florida whose records cover different period prior to statewide civil registration beginning in 1917. The early birth and death records referenced in the Index are from the city Boards of Health in these few cities. The West Florida GS produced a 3 volume series of books covering the early Pensacola Vital Records (1891 to 1910). The Health Dept. also had a few records from the Navy Yard (including Warrington and Woolsey villages). The Navy Yard records were included in the 3 volumes. I checked all 3 for the name Gathleny, and variants, but sorry to say found nothing even close. So they must have been living in the county areas not covered by either the Warrington Woolsey areas or the City limits. Ms. Sheila Lilia Martin ((( >^..^< )))