[or-roots] Research tips

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Utah has death records on line. Got lucky one day and stumbled across  them.
 
_Utah Death Certificate Index_ 
(http://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes/20842.htm)    they are from  1904 - 1956
 
Linda
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/10/2009 8:18:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
reedsportchapmans at verizon.net writes:

Someon  on another list I am on was just wishing states other than MO made
thier  vital records available the same way and I had to put in my two-bits
and  since Stephanie posted that helpful note I thought I would also list  
the
resources here;

It is interesting how differently each state  interprets their 
responsibility
and so forth with respect to what they make  available; Arizona has a search
engine that works quite well and allows  access to "selected" birth marriage
and death records. If you get lucky and  the person you want is there, you
can get a pdf of the origanal image. as  with all of these it is restricted
by what the state budget allows and your  person might or might not be 
there.
Or maybe their record just doesn't  exist.

Missouri as you say has a lot of stuff online, but birth pre  1917 or some
such is just an index, again they make selected records  available as
downloads, but I believe only death as downloads. and no  marriage?

wisconsin has a pre 1907 index that is just incredible, you  get the 
citation
of where the original record is page book etc, the date of  the event and
full name as it appears in the record, Illinois has a very  good set up for
death records and pre 1916 marriage, but no birth or any  thing else.
Michigan has a limited death index that provides you with  image, but lord
help you trying to figure out how to restrict your search;  there are pull
downs that give way too many options, but in them are things  like "surname
only'
Washington has a very comprehensive index and  provides a lot of marriage
originals and some other originals including  selected censuses, but again
like all of them it is imcomplete (as far as I  know none of these are even
close to "complete")
Oregon state archives  has an index that gives you bare bones info,
Off the top of my head those  are the only "state" indexes or online record
sources I know of, I am sure  there are more in states I haven't worked in,
and there are lots of other  indexes and resources for selected places.

People ask me why I don't  have an ancestry account. I figure at my current
rate of progress I will  only be twice as far behind in assimilating the 
free
stuff in ten years as  I am now.
There is a BYU resource called Western States Data Base or some  such that
gives access to Idaho death and marriage indexes to, as well as  selected
marraiges from other western states.


THose who have  been paying attention to my ongoing pursuit of the various
lines I often  bring in here even though they aren't strictly speaking
"Oregon" questions  will note that most of the migratory path Dale mentioned
earlier is covered  by these states. Most of the states that are not listed
above are places  that don't appear in my family file. Probably the only
important exceptions  to that are NY, PA, CT and MA, none of whom seem to
have any online indexes  or any other state provided genealogical resources.

Les  C

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