I have been wanting to make an index for birth and death records for the
county I take care of. But am having all sorts of trouble with the Health
Dept.
I am wondering if anyone else has had problems gaining access to records.
I have went twice now trying to get access to birth and death records for
Randolph County. I wanted to create an index like the WPA's. Randolph is one
of the counties that didn't get indexed. Both times the man that is in the
Health Dept. has denied me.
I have an email from the State Health Dept. saying it is ok for me to do
this. I also was given a copy of the state laws that states they are public
record and there are penalties if someone is denied.
Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions on how I should go about
getting access?
I know it has been done before because the Historical Society has an index,
but they will not share it with the INGenWeb Project. And I found a book at
the library where another lady made an index for about a 7 year period.
Gina Richardson
INGenWeb Volunteer Coordinator
Randolph County IN
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inrandol/
Rootsweb Admin. Inrandol-L(a)rootsweb.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Beheler" <debralee(a)insightbb.com>
To: <INDYTALK-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:02 PM
Subject: [INDYTALK] Statewide projects
A friend of mine is a volunteer for the KYGenWeb Project. She is
working
on the Kentucky Vital Records Project.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kvrp/ Once in awhile, she will send me
a
death certificate to look at for a second opinion on the handwriting.
This
will be an awesome resource with the actual images of the death
certificates accessible online for viewing and printing.
I am thinking Indiana needs to be thinking about a statewide project. I
do
not know of death certificates such as these that would be available
for
Indiana. About the only idea I have is to try to create a database of the
WPA indexes that would be searchable. I know some of the counties have
already tackled these and hopefully they would be willing to have the
transcriptions included in a free access, searchable database.
In order to be searchable, they will need to be transcribed. I have
access
to a machine that allows you to scan and save the images from
microfilm
and
the complete set of WPA film is available in the same library. These
could
be uploaded, so that volunteers could transcribe them online. I do
not
know the technical end of this process. We would need a project leader.
Is anyone interested or have other project ideas?
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Debby Beheler, debralee(a)ingenweb.net
State Coordinator for INGenWeb -
http://www.ingenweb.net
a part of the USGenWeb Project -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/county.html - Cass Co INGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co INGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrpmc/index.html - Miami Cass INPCRP
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