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From: "Carole Francesca" <>
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Rhyme or reason to our death indexes?
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:09:45 -0400
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Jo,
Don't know about the history, but in my last chats with some of the staffers
there, the Archives was hit with a big budget cutback, including personnel.
Which explains a lot of the awful service, returned requests, etc. Guess in
a city looking for places to cut, the Archives is on the list of
'non-essentials' to city services. Staffing (& money for it) seems to be the
biggest reason why 99% of this information isn't better organized/handled.
Too bad the city couldn't try to find volunteers from the high schools or
colleges willing to do some of this (in exchange for a few credits)
Carole

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Schwartz" <>
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Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Rhyme or reason to our death indexes?


> Is anyone familiar with the history behind the organization of the death
> indexes at the City Archives? I was wondering if some time in the past
> there was a GSP project to try to make a couple of years less crazy-making
> because yesterday I found that while 1902 and 03 are only in order by
first
> character of surname, 1904 (someone suggested 1905 also, but I didn't
> check) was neatly typed and alphabetical by surname, if not given name
> (I'll take any improvement). Does any one know the history behind the
> dramatic difference between these years?
>
> It would make such a big improvement to death research if the indexes
could
> be alphabatized. Are ANY genealogical projects of this nature done any
> more? If not, why not? Money? Volunteers?
>
> jo
>
>
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>
>


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