Sue, I'm a member of the Louisville Genealogical Society. A friend with whom I correspond frequently is also a member. She is one of the volunteers who is working on the indexing of the records. The project just got underway. I did read an interesting article in the latest quarterly of the Kentucky Genealogical Society, "Bluegrass Roots". Volunteers from the Genealogical Society of Utah began a processing and indexing project of Kentucky's Circuit Court Case files. Not only did they index some of them by plaintiff/defendant, but microfilmed the actual case files for several counties: Madison, Lincoln, Bourbon and Mason. While indexes to the case files were available on microfilm, one had to access the actual case files at the state archives. The old brittle papers would fall apart in your hands! To have the case files available on microfilm is a great boon to genealogists and historians everywhere as we will be able to rent the film via LDS Family History Libraries and not have to travel to the state archives. Libraries and societies will be able to purchase the film and make available to their patrons. The project has been underway since 1998 and will continue. Some of the earliests records for Woodford and Fayette were indexed. The article went on to say that work is progessing on records for Boone, Christian, and Perry counies. No mention of Jefferson, yet. An electronic database provides an index for the case files for the counties mentioned above, plus Anderson, Breathitt, Butler, Henry, Leslie, Lyon, Magoffin, and Shelby counties. The index database may one day be available on the KDLA website. I'll keep you posted on the Death Register indexing project, but it will be a long time before it is available, I'm sure. Deborah ----- Original Message ----- From: <SUEM600@aol.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:04 AM Subject: [KYJEFFER] Louisville death records > Deborah > > Thanks for letting us know about the LDS indexing project. I hope you > will let us know when it is completed. I well remember using the death record > and found it difficult because it was organized into different "books" . > How do you find out what the LDS is working on ? I'd like to know about their > upcoming projects. I am hopeful that they will put other census years in a > searchable CD like the 1880 census which is wonderful. > > Sue > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Submit your information to the Jefferson Co., KY History and Genelaogy project. See http://home.ix.netcom.com/~gsdownr/usgw/jefferson1.html for information on how to submit. > > ============================== > 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 > >