David you beat me to posting this. I've been trolling thru the site and it's great. I love that I can view and print out some of the death certificates. Its a great research tool. Everyone should check it out. Don't forget that you might need to be inventive when looking for someone. I had to use 3 different spellings of "Lessly" to find everyone I was looking for. The transcribers did a great job but aren't always perfect as far as spelling some names correctly (no wonder given some of the handwriting) so keep that in mind. To find one person I left the first and last names blank and just selected Randolph County and the year of death for the search. Carole Brace In a message dated 4/22/2006 7:06:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I couldn't remember if this has already been posted on the Randolph List, but great progress is being made by the Missouri State Archives in digitally scanning death certificates from the State of Missouri. To date, they have indexed all death certificates from 1910 through 1955. Currently, death certificates are available to view on line from 1910 through 1922. You can search for your ancestors or collateral relatives on the screen, which is included in the attached link: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ I hope this helps! David

Just FYI concerning the transcription -- we were transcribing from printed indexes, not the death certificates themselves. So some of the errors in spelling will be coming from the original indexing that has been done year by year since 1910, and some will undoubtedly have occurred during the transcription of the indexes. Linda