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From: Lanita Sconce Smith <>
Subject: Missouri Post-1910 Death Records Project
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:47:32 -0500


How can I help the Missouri Post-1910 Death Records Project achieve
its goal of providing online access to this collection?

Transcribing records from your home

The Missouri State Archives sponsors a successful "e-volunteer"
program in which volunteers, working from their home, index and
transcribe historical records. With the help of “e-volunteers,” the
Missouri State Archives plans to post online a database index of nearly
two million death certificates from 1910 to 1954. This index will then
be linked to a digital image of the death certificate.  

Volunteers to this project will be provided photocopies of the death
certificate index, transcription instructions, and a spreadsheet
template to transcribe these records. A sample of the index to be
transcribed is available for viewing in Adobe PDF format. 

The index is arranged by year and alphabetically by surname within the
year. Because of the size of the project the index has been divided
into approximately 50 page sections for transcription. 

If you are interested in participating in the Missouri Death
Certificate Project, please send the following information to
.
• Your name
• Postal address for mailing the photocopies of the index
• Email address
• Information on the spreadsheet application (MS Excel, MS Works,
etc.) you will use.  

Please note that the creation of this electronic index is the first
phase of this project and required before the Missouri State Archives
can begin the digitization of the death certificates. A date has not
been set yet for the release of the database online.

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