It has been a Whirlwind past 20 months...one lay off followed by 3 job changes and one retirement from a profession. Now that I have my feet fairly firmly set again, I will start posting again to this blog.
During this time period, I did NOT stop extracting records for my Pre-1920 Oklahoma Death Index. Today I added 4400+ more entries from:
- The Daily Ardmoreite (1910-1913)
- The Cherokee Advocate (1882-1906)
- "Fatalities in the Coal Mines of Indian Territory and Southeastern Oklahoma 1885-1962" by
Thurman Shuller (NOTE: this includes records from churches in SE Oklahoma)
- Woodward News 15 & 24 June 1894
This brings the total of the dataset to 539,363 entries!!
In the next queue I already have:
- 150+ entries from the Altus Times (1907-1909)
- 17,000+ entries from OK2Explore for 1908-1909-1910
- 5000+ entries from OK2Explore for 1915
I will not be adding the OK2Explore records to the database until I have finished all years 1908-1919.
That will be a total of 125,592 records, all from the "official" OKlahoma State Department of Health's Index of Deaths (which is available on-line, but has TONS of mistakes in it).
Hopefully I will have them all done by the end of 2017.
My plan is to add a new blog post every Wednesday.
So until next time...Good Hunting!!
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I am looking for cemetery where my Great Grandfather, B.F. McArthur. He died in Ardmore Oklahoma after 1907 and before 1920. He and wife Lula B McArthur were in the city directory for 1907.
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