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From: "Larry Van Horn" <>
Subject: Re: [MSCLAIBO] Mississippi to Texas folks - free TX death certs.
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:51:59 -0400
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> Since lots of MS families migrated to Texas eventually, I thought some of
> you might like to have some of these free Texas death certificates
> starting in 1890 through 1976- >pilot program with LDS. (How long it will
> stay free is questionable since they put most of the good stuff on
> Ancestry.com and charge for it. I am grateful for this however >long it
> lasts, however!) I printed five or six that I would have never paid to
> order. They are expensive. I already had paid for my immediate family's
> information, but >through this, I got great uncles, aunts. They have other
> free databases there, but I wasn't interested in them too much at the
> time. You might be, though.
The short answer Sue is that those Texas Death records will always remain
free and more like it are on the way. What you are seeing is just a small
part of a major project being conducted by the LDS Church to digitize most
of their 2.5 million rolls of genealogical records and place them online.
The price - free. In addition to the images being placed online, there is a
major project underway to index them all. Right now there are about 140,000
indexers worldwide participating in this part of the project. You can learn
more about this indexing project including records sets in work and near
term future records to be indexed at
http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/home/home.jsf?pname=homeTab. For
instance, right now I am working on indexing from the original images,
Louisiana Death Records 1850-1954. You can see the current projects, some of
the upcoming projects, and and completed projects on this webpage
http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/projects/current_projects.jsf?pname=projectsTab.
I recently interviewed the director of this project Paul Nauta for readers
of my syndicated genealogy newspaper column and Paul told my readers that it
is their goal to have all the US, Canada and UK census records online by the
end of next year. But census and vital records are only a piece of this
project. pretty much and of the microfilm that circulates and is listed in
their electronic card catalog will be part of the imaging/indexing project.
This imaging and indexing project has been well publicized in the online and
paper genealogy press and in the end it will be a major boom for
genealogists worldwide. Oh, and did I mention that al these records will be
available for free and will remain free just like their other databases at
familysearch.org? ;-)))
Have no fear those death certs are a permanent part of the genealogy record
landscape from now on.
Warm genealogical regards
Larry Van Horn
Nicolas Martiau Descendant Association National Registrar
Family Historian, Genealogy Instructor/Lecturer and Syndicated Newspaper
Columnist
Family Roots and Branches Genealogy Blogspot:
http://family-genealogy.blogspot.com/
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