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From: "Sharon Hobart" <>
Subject: RE: [MOCASS] Missouri Post-1910 Death Records Project
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:46:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <9F2B1EB4-DCEB-11D9-AB7B-000393CCBB70@grm.net>


Someone sent me a post about this a few months ago. It was easy, I turned
my name in and within one week I had a package to type up. It has been
great "giving back to these organizations" who've helped me so much in my
research.



-----Original Message-----
From: Lanita Sconce Smith [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:48 AM
To:
Subject: [MOCASS] Missouri Post-1910 Death Records Project

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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