Hi List, I had a very sad trip to Holdenville yesterday. I went over to the funeral home to do a little research. It appears that all of the records dating back before 1927, have pretty much been lost to time. The books are still there, but they are in such poor shape that they wouldn't allow me to use them. I am trying to work out something with them to some how record the information and at least save it to disks or something to keep the information available for use. If you have any ideas, please let me know. Rebinding the books would be so expensive that it is kind of out of the question, there is a shelf full of them. How can I help them to preserve the information in the books? I'm certainly open to suggestion here. With this in mind, your might want to consider speaking with your neighboring funeral homes to see if the same fate might be about to happen. Maybe this problem can be avoided to other records. Vickie Neill Taylor flip@okplus.com

I don't know if there is a genealogy society anywhere near Holdenville. One of the things that goes on here is that genealogists are constantly recording things into the computer for future generations. Some of these old records are miles and miles long. You would need some volunteers and the funeral home would have to agree to let the genealogy society come in and record the records. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vickie Neill Taylor <flip@okplus.com> To: <OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: [OKROOTS] Funeral Records Lost To Time! > Hi List, > I had a very sad trip to Holdenville yesterday. I went over to the > funeral home to do a little research. It appears that all of the records > dating back before 1927, have pretty much been lost to time. The books are > still there, but they are in such poor shape that they wouldn't allow me to > use them. > I am trying to work out something with them to some how record the > information and at least save it to disks or something to keep the > information available for use. > If you have any ideas, please let me know. Rebinding the books would be > so expensive that it is kind of out of the question, there is a shelf full > of them. How can I help them to preserve the information in the books? I'm > certainly open to suggestion here. > With this in mind, your might want to consider speaking with your > neighboring funeral homes to see if the same fate might be about to happen. > Maybe this problem can be avoided to other records. > > > Vickie Neill Taylor > flip@okplus.com > > > ==== OKROOTS Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Oklahoma Roots Mailing List, use > OKROOTS-l-request@rootsweb.com or OKROOTS-d-request@rootsweb.com if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm >