Dear List Members, I wonder if someone could answer this for me concerning the Georgia Mortality Schedules. How often were they done? How did the counties come by the information published in the Mortality Schedules? When did they begin? I am trying to find information about a Jacob DRIVER, who was listed on the 1850 Mortality Schedule for Gwinnett County, Georgia. He is "said to be" my ggg-grandfather. The Mortality Schedule sources I have seen, are only transcribed index like lists. They always list him as Jacob Driver age 71, born SC, died February 1850. Yesterday I was searching at Ancestry.com, it is my first experience with viewing their census images, it gave this Mortality Schedule as one of the hits for Jacob DRIVER. No image available however. They had his name listed as Jacob G. DRIVER. I have never seen the middle initial before. Does anyone have a copy of this schedule that would be willing to do a lookup for this name in Gwinnett County for me? I would be so thankful. Or tell me if they are stored publicly somewhere and available for searching? Sharon Driver Wright Florida shadri@perry.gulfnet.com

My understanding is that they were done the SAME year at the census....BUT they covered the people who died in the previous CENSUS year. (usually June1) this is something that I put on-line for Taylor County which shows that the information did vary from year to year....just like the Census Schedules themselves. Probably what you're finding on-line is the "brief" version----as many of the census on-line are as well. I've not checked to see if Ancestry Census Subscription allows you access to Mortality rolls...and if those are included on their site. MORTALITY SCHEDULES In some years, records of persona who had died during the previous year, called Mortality Schedules were published. 1850 Mortality Information for each person who died during the year ending 1 June 1850 Name, age , sex, color (white, black or mulatto), whether married or widowed, place of birth, occupation, month of death, cause of death, number of days ill 1860 Mortality Information for each person who died during the year ending 1 June 1860 Name, age , sex, color (white, black or mulatto), whether slave or free, whether married or widowed, place of birth, occupation, month of death, cause of death, number of days ill 1870 Mortality Information for each person who died during the year ending 1 June 1870 Name, age , sex, color (white, black, mulatto, Chinease or Indian), whether slave or free, whether married or widowed, place of birth, whether father and mother foreign born occupation, month of death, cause of death. 1880 Mortality Information for each person who died during the year ending 1 June 1880 Name, age , sex, color , whether slave or free, whether married or widowed, place of birth, length of residence in U.S.; whether father and mother foreign born occupation, month of death, cause of death, place cause of death contracted and name of attending physician. At 12:45 PM 4/8/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Dear List Members, > >I wonder if someone could answer this for me concerning the Georgia >Mortality Schedules. How often were they done? How did the counties come by >the information published in the Mortality Schedules? When did they begin? > >I am trying to find information about a Jacob DRIVER, who was listed on the >1850 Mortality Schedule for Gwinnett County, Georgia. He is "said to be" my >ggg-grandfather. The Mortality Schedule sources I have seen, are only >transcribed index like lists. They always list him as Jacob Driver age 71, >born SC, died February 1850. Yesterday I was searching at Ancestry.com, it >is my first experience with viewing their census images, it gave this >Mortality Schedule as one of the hits for Jacob DRIVER. No image available >however. They had his name listed as Jacob G. DRIVER. I have never seen the >middle initial before. Does anyone have a copy of this schedule that would >be willing to do a lookup for this name in Gwinnett County for me? I would >be so thankful. Or tell me if they are stored publicly somewhere and >available for searching? > >Sharon Driver Wright >Florida >shadri@perry.gulfnet.com > > > >==== GAWARE Mailing List ==== >To Unsubscribe:send mail to >GAWARE-L-request@rootsweb.com ..change the "L" to "D" for Digest >with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. >Judy Roberts- Co-Manager- j2roberts@sum.net >Sharon Wright- List Manager- shadri@perry.gulfnet.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Virginia Crilley