Dear Listers, Thankyou to the advise given on the BDM's. Fay Markwell [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > FLORIDA-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 8 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [FLORIDA] Re BDM's [Fay Markwell <[email protected]] > #2 Re: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's ["Deborah Byrd" <[email protected]] > #3 RE: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's ["Leslie Maddocks" <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from FLORIDA-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:28:11 +1100 > From: Fay Markwell <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Dear Listers, > Could someone please tell me where and how I can > look up or get a "lookup" of the BDM's for the > state of Florida. > Fay Markwell > Lake Macquarie, NSW. Australia > > ______________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:58:41 -0700 > From: "Deborah Byrd" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Do you know the time period and locations. Centralized record keeping > didn't start until after 1915. Death certificates were on the web at > ancestry.com fee site. Do to concerns about identity theft they may have > been removed. > > Marriage license before 1915 will be kept at the county courthouses and may > or may not exist due to numerous court house fires. > > Deborah Byrd > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fay Markwell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:28 PM > Subject: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's > > > Dear Listers, > > Could someone please tell me where and how I can > > look up or get a "lookup" of the BDM's for the > > state of Florida. > > Fay Markwell > > Lake Macquarie, NSW. Australia > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: RE: [FLORIDA] Re BDM's > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:29:25 -0600 > From: "Leslie Maddocks" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > With reference to: > "Death certificates were on the web at ancestry.com fee site. Do to > concerns about identity theft they may have been removed." > > These records have not been removed from Ancestry.com. - YET :-) > However, I have found that for some unknown reason the record does not > always come up doing a name search from the home page. You can go to > "Search Records" then to "Birth, Marriage, and Death" and on that page > scroll down in the section titled "Search Individual Birth, Marriage and > Death Databases", you will find Florida Deaths from 1936-1998 in 35 > different databases. If you do not have the year you will have to > search each one individually but I've found quite a lot that didn't > appear on the initial search. If it is someone who died after 1962 or > so, I check the SSDI first to find a year and then go directly to the > correct Florida death index for that time frame. Also, some years they > have not included the birth date although it was on the original > microfiche of the death records. If you are not in Florida and have > access to the microfiche at a local library, they can be rented from > LDS. The Florida State Genealogical Society web page has a list of all > the libraries in Florida with the microfiche > www.rootsweb.com/~flgs/flvital.htm > > I am not certain if these records are under the free portion of > Ancestry.com or the paid area. I am unable to tell from my home page > since I subscribe to most of their offerings. > > Leslie