Genealogy Path

The following is a message that I received about a grassroots effort to get greater accessibility to state records that would help genealogists conduct their family history. If you have any questions, please contact the webmaster on the site referenced.
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Here is the link to the website about the grassroots effort to have Pennsylvania make its older state death certificates much more accessible and available online similar to how they have started to do in other states: http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Access.htm . We hope you will join in on this effort and if you would pass this information onto your members and anyone you know who is into Pennsylvania genealogy and history including out of state residents.

If for some reason you have difficulty opening our website through the above link please go to Google or a similar search engine and type in “pahr-access”. It should be the first hit.

Thank you for your help.
Tim Gruber

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Death records for the state of Tennessee are available online in three separate indexes. Tennessee began recording death records in 1908. For the first few years, recording was erratic. The Tennessee State Archives and Library features a searchable index to their death records for 1908-1912 at www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/death2.htm. This index contains almost 98,000 listings. The search results give the decedent’s name, year of death, county of death, and certificate number. This information can be used to order the complete death record.

The Memphis Public Library History and Genealogy Index Web site at tempo.memphislibrary.org/dadabik/program_files/sform.php allows the visitor to search Memphis/Shelby County deaths (1848-1945) from the Memphis Death Register books and yellow fever deaths recorded during an epidemic in 1878. Also included in the database are the Freedmen’s Bureau marriage index of 1863-4. Death records for 1913 were not recorded in Tennessee. The second online index lists Tennessee deaths from 1914 to 1924 and is at www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/tndeath.htm. Again, this information should be used when ordering the full death record.

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