Forwarding from another mail list I'm on, I thought you might like to see
what others are saying about KY Vitals.
Sherri
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From: Genie-Angels(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:Genie-Angels@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Kestenbaum
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 2:13 PM
To: Genie-Angels(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Genie~Angels] Free Access to KY Death Records
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Sherri wrote:
We've started with the KY Deaths for images, beginning in 1911
and
basically
going forward from there. We're currently adding large chunks of
the 1915
death certificates. This is a work in progress - and more are added daily.
We currently have over 148,000 death certificate images on the site that
have been transcribed - not too shabby for a totally volunteer project
that
started in Feb 2004.
This is a fabulous source, and I commend everyone who is involved in
creating it.
In my Political Graveyard database (online at
politicalgraveyard.com), I
currently have eight politicians listed as having died in Kentucky from
1911 through 1915. I found seven of the eight on this new site, and six
of the seven had death certificate images.
Those death certificates not only confirmed death and birth dates, but
invariably had information that was new to me. In one case, I had the
place of death wrong.
The only one who wasn't listed at all (Thomas Perrin Cardwell, 1829-1915,
of Breathitt County) had died in the very last days of 1915, so his data
may still be in process.
It would be unnecessary now, but eventually as the dataset grows, the site
will need some facility to narrow a search by range of years.
Kudos on an excellent web site!
Larry
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