Brenda, Consider this.......My sister died in FLorida in 1943 at the age of 8 months and I looked for many years for her death record. Her name was Dorothy YON. I was told repeatedly that there was nothing on file anywhere. About 4 years ago, I sat down at the library (determined to find something) and looked thru the index reading EVERY name listed. Well, guess what? YON had been misread and filed under YOU! Keep searching and Good Luck! Liz In a message dated 4/3/99 12:52:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, bantal@magicnet.net writes: << Subj: death records Date: 4/3/99 12:52:52 PM Eastern Standard Time From: bantal@magicnet.net (Brenda Antal) To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com With all the talk of vital records: I wonder about the chances of people being left off the death index while there could in fact be a death certificate. My gggrandfather, Zeb R Jones died in Graceville, Jackson Co, FL on Nov 19, 1927 or 1928. I would have expected a death certificate. I checked the death index myself and did not find it. State of FL says there is none. Does anyone know if the vital stat office checks the certificates or just the index? Is there a reliable way to have them search the certificates? Thanks for any help, Brenda Jones: GA>AL>FL Paulk: GA>FL Crawford: SC?>GA>FL Griffin: GA>FL ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <FLORIDA-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd05.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Sat, 03 Apr 1999 12:52:52 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id MAA10369; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 12:52:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA26039; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:51:15 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:51:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <002001be7dfb$31231a80$27c906d0@jantal.ppp> From: "Brenda Antal" <bantal@magicnet.net> Old-To: "Florida list" <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: death records Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 12:55:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"jagCUC.A.qWG.SUlB3"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2937 X-Loop: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: FLORIDA-L-request@rootsweb.com >>