You order the films at your local Family History Center. You have to pay $3.50 per roll, which is the cost of postage. The films will be delivered to the center about two weeks later. You view the films at the center. Most centers have a reader/printer for making copies. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kinta Delamain" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: RE: [SC] Re: Charleston Death Certificates -- 1887-1915 | Hi -- hate to be so dumb -- but how did you "see" the records?? I have not | been able to see anything. Have all the call numbers -- but what do I do | with them now -- must I go to a LDS Center?? | kinta | | -----Original Message----- | From: Mark Lomax [mailto:[email protected]] | Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:39 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: Re: [SC] Re: Charleston Death Certificates -- 1887-1915 | | | It appears that these records do exist -- although copies are not available | from the state health department (DHEC) in Columbia or from the Trident | Health District vital-records office in North Charleston. DHEC and Trident | have no records prior to 1915. | | Charleston was one of the earliest cities to require death certificates, | although enforcement of the requirement was somewhat spotty. I have death | records from Charleston dating as far back as the 1850s. | | As I wrote in my original message, the Family History Library has | microfilmed copies of Charleston death records through 1886. This does not | mean, however, that death certificates were not issued between 1887 and | 1915, when the state assumed the recordkeeping responsibility. I knew the | records existed somewhere, because I have copies of Charleston death | certificates issued in 1908 and 1911. (I obtained the copies from a | relative who cannot remember where she got them.) The mystery for me was: | What happened to the records for the period of 1887 through 1914? Surely, | the records were not destroyed. | | A few knowledgeable members of this list answered that question for me. The | South Carolina Room of the Charleston County Public Library has microfilmed | copies of Charleston death records through 1914, though, according to the | library, there are some gaps. The microfilmed records are in chronological | order, but the library has a card file index that was created with the | assistance of the WPA. (We should all say a little prayer for President | Roosevelt and the WPA [not to mention the LDS Church], which was responsible | for a number of indexing and record-preservation projects beneficial to | family historians.) | | Billie asked about the FHL death records through 1886. Go to | www.familysearch.org, click on Library, then Family History Library Catalog, | then Place Search. Type Charleston in the box. From the long list of | places named Charleston, click on "South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston" | (not "South Carolina, Charleston") then Vital Records. Scroll down the list | and click on "Death records, 1821-1886 Charleston (South Carolina). Board | of Health." The image quality of the FHL-filmed death records is pretty | good (unlike the FHL-filmed Charleston birth records, whose quality is | terrible). | | Mark Lomax | Pasadena, CA | | | | | ==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== | To UNSUBSCRIBE | Write [email protected] | Plain Text with just the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of letter | Change the "L" to "D" if you have Digest Mode | | ============================== | Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration | Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 | |

Thanks -- that is what I thought it must be -- kinta -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lomax [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SC] Re: Charleston Death Certificates -- 1887-1915 You order the films at your local Family History Center. You have to pay $3.50 per roll, which is the cost of postage. The films will be delivered to the center about two weeks later. You view the films at the center. Most centers have a reader/printer for making copies. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kinta Delamain" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: RE: [SC] Re: Charleston Death Certificates -- 1887-1915 | Hi -- hate to be so dumb -- but how did you "see" the records?? I have not | been able to see anything. Have all the call numbers -- but what do I do | with them now -- must I go to a LDS Center?? | kinta | | -----Original Message----- | From: Mark Lomax [mailto:[email protected]] | Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:39 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: Re: [SC] Re: Charleston Death Certificates -- 1887-1915 | | | It appears that these records do exist -- although copies are not available | from the state health department (DHEC) in Columbia or from the Trident | Health District vital-records office in North Charleston. DHEC and Trident | have no records prior to 1915. | | Charleston was one of the earliest cities to require death certificates, | although enforcement of the requirement was somewhat spotty. I have death | records from Charleston dating as far back as the 1850s. | | As I wrote in my original message, the Family History Library has | microfilmed copies of Charleston death records through 1886. This does not | mean, however, that death certificates were not issued between 1887 and | 1915, when the state assumed the recordkeeping responsibility. I knew the | records existed somewhere, because I have copies of Charleston death | certificates issued in 1908 and 1911. (I obtained the copies from a | relative who cannot remember where she got them.) The mystery for me was: | What happened to the records for the period of 1887 through 1914? Surely, | the records were not destroyed. | | A few knowledgeable members of this list answered that question for me. The | South Carolina Room of the Charleston County Public Library has microfilmed | copies of Charleston death records through 1914, though, according to the | library, there are some gaps. The microfilmed records are in chronological | order, but the library has a card file index that was created with the | assistance of the WPA. (We should all say a little prayer for President | Roosevelt and the WPA [not to mention the LDS Church], which was responsible | for a number of indexing and record-preservation projects beneficial to | family historians.) | | Billie asked about the FHL death records through 1886. Go to | www.familysearch.org, click on Library, then Family History Library Catalog, | then Place Search. Type Charleston in the box. From the long list of | places named Charleston, click on "South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston" | (not "South Carolina, Charleston") then Vital Records. Scroll down the list | and click on "Death records, 1821-1886 Charleston (South Carolina). Board | of Health." The image quality of the FHL-filmed death records is pretty | good (unlike the FHL-filmed Charleston birth records, whose quality is | terrible). | | Mark Lomax | Pasadena, CA | | | | | ==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== | To UNSUBSCRIBE | Write [email protected] | Plain Text with just the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of letter | Change the "L" to "D" if you have Digest Mode | | ============================== | Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration | Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 | | ==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== To contact the list maintainer [email protected] ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237