(cont. from prior email that got sent before I was finished!)
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Nancy wrote:
What is this index you're talking about; I've never heard of it?
David Eisen has compiled two different indexes for St. Joseph County.
These indexes list the names of folks whose vital statistics appeared in
newspapers in St. Joseph Co. They are arranged in alphabetical order, then
each listing tells which paper the information was in, along with a date
range when it appears in the newspaper.
As an example, you could find something like this:
Horein, Mrs. Amelia,
d. 16 Jan 1953,
ME 24 Feb. 1949-4
The last line indicating which newspaper ran the article and which edition.
There are two separate indexes:
Vital Statistics to St. Joseph Co, IN (1831-1912), and,
The Mishawaka Enterprise: Vital Statistics Index, 1858-1981
This first, covers many of the different newspapers that were published in
the area from 1831-1912.
The Elkhart Public Library has both of these. The references have been
helpful in locating information on some of the collateral lines in my
family tree.