[Genealib] Tennessee Death Indexes

[Susan Scouras]

The West Virginia Dept. of Health Vital Registration Office allows the
West Virginia State Archives to keep their annual death index on
microfilm for the years 1917 (first issuance) through 1991 and to make
it available to the public.  The index gives name, age (some years),
county of death and date of death, as well as certificate number.  Pages
of the index may be copied.  The State Registrar has also cooperated
with the Archives in the creation of the West Virginia Vital Research
Records project, which has placed digital images of actual death
certificates on our Web Site in a searchable database for 1917 through
1956 (records are held back 50 years from date of issuance.  

FYI, for those interested in WV records and genealogy, I started a new
series of articles in West Virginia Archives and History News regarding
vital records.  The September 2007 issue has an article on death records
in West Virginia: http://www.wvculture.org/history/ahnews/0907news.pdf.
All issues of our newsletter are posted on our Web site, with subject
and title indexes. (We are not able to mail paper copies to any
individual, nor to societies or libraries outside WV.  We do not have
the capability currently to send e-mail notices, etc.  The newsletter is
included in PERSI.)

Susan Scouras
Librarian
WV Archives and History Library
The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Charleston, WV  25305-0300
(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742
 


-----Original Message-----
From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Laine
Sutherland
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 4:40 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Genealib] Tennessee Death Indexes


"  I was wondering how many states have a death index?  Washington State
has microfilm that lists by decade people who have died, when they died,
and where they died in the state.  Does any other state have that? 

Becky Menzel, Genealogy Librarian. Spokane Public Library"

The state of Tennessee began recording death records in 1908; some
counties kept earlier records as did the major cities of Tennessee. The
state law lapsed in 1913 but was reinstated in 1914. By state law death
records are confidential for fifty years. We have death indexes and
records up to1956; 1957 will be released next Spring.

We have death indexes 1908-1912 and 1914-1921 online. Check our website
often, we are adding death indexes as quickly as possible. 

http://state.tn.us/tsla/history/vital/index.htm 

Laine




(Ms.) Laine Sutherland
Director of Public Services
Tennessee State Library and Archives
403 Seventh Avenue North
Nashville, TN  37243-0312
615.253.6468
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/





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