Death certificates now on ancestry.com

Thanks to Ancestry.com and the Tennessee State Library and Archives I won't be needing to transcribe all my death certificates.  All Tennessee death records from 1908-1959 are now available for viewing on ancestry.com.

Area death certficates

I am still "feeling" my way through the process of setting up this blog and hope to have more postings soon! One of the projects I've been working on over the years is abstracting information from death certificates. Tennessee did not officially start keeping them until 1914. So far I've abstracted most of them for the area around Mason from 1914 through 1943. Quite a project. Most of them are from Civil Districts 9 and 10 of Tipton County, 4, 5 and 6 of Fayette County and 3 of Haywood County. Eventually, hope to have them transcribed and online. The information provided on them can vary a great deal. Some are rather sketchy but others are quite informative. It usually depended on the informant furnishing the information. But at the very least they usually give the burial site of the deceased.

Many thanks to Matana Roberts for helping me to set up this blog. She is the great-granddaughter of Dr. Rumsey Sidney Fields, 1875-1944, early physician in Mason, Tennessee and Memphis. I just learned last night that Dr. Fields' great-grandmother, Alsey Core, was still living in 1900 and listed as 11o years old!

Welcome!

Hello, welcome to my site! I am a  geneaology researcher and have set up this forum to compile my work and also answer any questions you might have. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have  in the comments section of my blog entries.