Hello, I couldn't get this link either to go on to WPA. Maxine Baldwin [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [INJACKSO] Death Records >In a message dated 01/30/2000 7:27:51 PM Mountain Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > >> I tried to access your Jackson County IN GenWeb >> Home Pageweb site Death WPA, 1882-1920 Death >> Records, A-Z and was unable to access any of these >> records. Are these records available? Am I doing >> something wrong? > >Hi, Anmarie. To get to the death records you mention, here's what you need >to do: > >1. Under the Databases heading on the main Jackson County page >(http://www.rootsweb.com~injackso/ ), click on the link that says "WPA, 1882, >1920 Death Records, A-Z." > >2. The page that you will go to next is the USGenWeb Archives page for >Jackson County. You'll need to scroll down the page a little ways to get to >a table with a heading that says, "WPA-1882-1920 death records." Once you're >at this table, you will see links to nine text files containing the death >record information. The first table is for surnames A-B, the next is for >C-D, followed by E-G, H-J, K-L, M-N, O-R, S, T-Z. When you click on one of >these links, you will get a text file with an alphabetical listing of deaths >in Jackson County. The data in the files includes the individual's name, the >township, the date of death, the location of death, and the book and page of >the death record. The original records are located at the Jackson County >Health Department Office in Seymour. > >Carol Stultz contributed these text files for use in the USGenWeb Archives in >1998. You may also purchase the index in hard copy form from the Jackson >County Genealogical Society (they also sell an index to the 1921-1940 death >records). I believe each of the township cemetery books that the Society >sells also includes information from the 1882-1920 death record index that >pertains to the township. > >Since I'm copying this message back to the Jackson County mailing list, I >want to also give a plug for the USGenWeb Archives site. Its main page is at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ > >A lot of volunteers across the country have contributed some wonderful >information to the archives, so if you haven't checked it out yet, you should >give it a try. There are two search engines you can access from the main >page--one to search all the archives and one to search just one state's >archives. One day I came across some fascinating oral histories for >Caldwell County, Missouri while searching for information on some possible >Clampitt relatives. It was information I doubt I would have ever come across >any other way. > >I hope this helps, Anmarie. If not, let me know. > >--Dolores > > > >