Hi Deborah, Thank you for explaining the difficulties about my request and the offering of a different solution. I'll try the address you gave me. I appreciate your input. This list has some very helpful researchers on it, and I'm thankful to be doing research here among them. Regards, Loretta Lee Dear Loretta, You may want to send your request for a search of the Louisville Death Register to: Jefferson County Historic Preservation and Archives 6th Floor, Urban Government Building 810 Barrett Avenue Louisville, Kentucky 40204 The county archives has these on microfilm and can check the index for your Schnetz relatives. The staff will bill you for the copies of any entries found. Send a self-addressed stamped envelope for a speedier reply. Be as specific as possible with names and dates or date range. Do not ask for all of a particular surname. The names are really not arranged alphabetically, rather all surnames of a given letter are listed together. One has to read ALL the "S"s written in the hard to decipher old handwriting to locate the needed entry, then find the page on another roll of film. Some of the index pages are very poor and some entries nearly illegible. One problem with someone doing a search at the Filson: even individuals who pay a $50 annual fee must pay $5 to use the library. While the Louisville Free Public Library does not charge a membership fee, the main library building is located downtown and there is no free parking. Good news!! The Genealogical Society of Utah (LDS) has undertaken an indexing project of the microfilmed Louisville/Jefferson County death registers. The volunteerss are not transcribing each record, just entering data for an index. The index would have name and date of death. My understanding is that once completed, the index would be available on-line through their free website at www.familysearch.org or on a CD. The indexing has just started, so it may be a year or more before the project is completed. Deborah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loretta Mikolyski" <lmikolyski@hotmail.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: [KYJEFFER] death certificate look-up from library > > >Hi List. >I'm wondering if there's some kind soul who either is a member of the Filson >Club or lives near the Louisville free public library who is willing and >able to search in the Louisville death register. My grgrandmother had two >children between 1884 and 1900 who died before 1900. A Mr. Pen Bogert from >the Filson Club was able to locate a death of a child named Robert Schnetz >from the Cave Hill Cemetery records that was taken from the city death >register. He told me that this city death register is indexed alphabetically >from 1866-1910. Also Mr. Bogert felt that the free public library would have >this register on microfilm. So if someone was able to do this search, I'd be >glad to compensate for copies made of records found and postage. One problem >with these records is that they don't list parents' names, only address of >deceased person. Thank you very much for your help. >Gratefully, Loretta Lee _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com