Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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.