Something is confusing.. I received just this week at my local library through the inter library loan from Richmond, these microfilms: Deaths Buckingham 1853-1896; Campbell 1853-1859. I also have the births and marriages for very similar dates. Best regards, Doug Phelps dphelps61@alumni.wfu.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim Shumaker Clark To: VABUCKIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:31 AM Subject: [VABUCKIN] Death Certificates I'm sorry, I thought I had sent an email explaining the death certificates. My bad. These death certificates are NOT available online nor through inter-library loan. You have to physically go to the Library of Virginia (Richmond) to search for them. There are 10 reels of indexes divided into 4-5 year segments. For example if you know that your grandfather, John Doe, died sometime between the 1920 census and the 1930 census you would search the index reels that cover that 10 year span. If he is listed, it will show something like this: Doe, John Buckingham July 21, 1928 843-17250 That last number would then point you to the specific reel that contains his death certificate. Once you find it, you can then print it for a cost of 75 cents. The microfilm reels are not an easy read so I suggest taking a good magnifying glass with you and go prepared with a list of people that you want to search, first those with death dates that you know (from tombstones or bible records) and then those that you don't know but have a general idea. I started searching probaby 4 years ago and initially only copied those for my family (passing by hundreds of other Buckingham certificates). As I got more comfortable in searching and could do it faster (and had some spare bucks on my library cards) I would copy the certificates of those found in the Buckingham section on the reel. If you know of someone that can use the information, then by all means share it with them. I would try to scan the boards when I came home to see if I could find matches with any extra certificates I had and did have some luck but not always. Being a fulltime student, my genealogy trips these past couple of years have been fewer and I had to cram as much in on my breaks as possible. I had a few days before starting back to college so I thought I would try to post some of the certificates I had in hopes that it might find a match on the board. Below is the link to the Library of Virginia site on the death certificates. Again, there is a binder with a FEW certificates at Buckingham County House but mostly for 1912-1917 and my understanding is only those where the family bought a copy to the courthouse (meaning not all people that died in that timeframe have a certificate in Buckingham). Hope this helps. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/vital/death-certificates/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: CLGriffinY@aol.com [mailto:CLGriffinY@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:10 PM To: VABUCKIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VABUCKIN] Jamerson/Guthrie/LeSueur & Flippen/Jamerson/Guthrie/Harris Someone who would like to have this information is a Jamerson descendant who works at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. I also went on the website, but I only found a listing and not a place where you can place a name and receive a copy of the death record. Carolyn Lucado Griffin (_CLGriffinY@aol.com_ (mailto:CLGriffinY@aol.com) ) ==== VABUCKIN Mailing List ==== To contact the List Admin off list about any list problem, write to: VABUCKIN-admin@rootsweb.com If it's of general interest to subscribers, simply post it to the list. ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx ==== VABUCKIN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line and message body to: VABUCKIN-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode or VABUCKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com in digest mode VABUCKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx