In a message dated 01/30/2000 7:27:51 PM Mountain Standard Time,
aholzer(a)wans.net writes:
I tried to access your Jackson County IN GenWeb
Home Pageweb site Death WPA, 1882-1920 Death
Records, A-Z and was unable to access any of these
records. Are these records available? Am I doing
something wrong?
Hi, Anmarie. To get to the death records you mention, here's what you need
to do:
1. Under the Databases heading on the main Jackson County page
(
http://www.rootsweb.com~injackso/ ), click on the link that says "WPA, 1882,
1920 Death Records, A-Z."
2. The page that you will go to next is the USGenWeb Archives page for
Jackson County. You'll need to scroll down the page a little ways to get to
a table with a heading that says, "WPA-1882-1920 death records." Once
you're
at this table, you will see links to nine text files containing the death
record information. The first table is for surnames A-B, the next is for
C-D, followed by E-G, H-J, K-L, M-N, O-R, S, T-Z. When you click on one of
these links, you will get a text file with an alphabetical listing of deaths
in Jackson County. The data in the files includes the individual's name, the
township, the date of death, the location of death, and the book and page of
the death record. The original records are located at the Jackson County
Health Department Office in Seymour.
Carol Stultz contributed these text files for use in the USGenWeb Archives in
1998. You may also purchase the index in hard copy form from the Jackson
County Genealogical Society (they also sell an index to the 1921-1940 death
records). I believe each of the township cemetery books that the Society
sells also includes information from the 1882-1920 death record index that
pertains to the township.
Since I'm copying this message back to the Jackson County mailing list, I
want to also give a plug for the USGenWeb Archives site. Its main page is at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/
A lot of volunteers across the country have contributed some wonderful
information to the archives, so if you haven't checked it out yet, you should
give it a try. There are two search engines you can access from the main
page--one to search all the archives and one to search just one state's
archives. One day I came across some fascinating oral histories for
Caldwell County, Missouri while searching for information on some possible
Clampitt relatives. It was information I doubt I would have ever come across
any other way.
I hope this helps, Anmarie. If not, let me know.
--Dolores