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Transcription of Mississippi Death Certificate Index
1926

A summary of the available microfilm pages (and some transcription text) is viewable in this table.

The transcription of 169 pages of the microfilm for 1926 has been very difficult. Each page is barely legible and it is difficult to tell the difference between the numbers 3 and 5, 4 and 6 and 0 and 8.

There are a lot of clues as to the "correct" numbers (e.g., the counties must have received stacks of certificates at various times through the year and submitted them as they filed, meaning that there are blocks of certificate numbers for each county).

As each page is transcribed, the text is submitted to the Database at Virtual Genealogy. Periodic reviews of the 1926 results have indicated errors, which are then corrected in the baseline transcription. After the initial work is completed, a quality review is planned.

If you decide to transcribe one of these pages, we'd appreciate it if you could send your text file (in the format shown here) to WEBMASTER (AT) COOGANRESEARCHGROUP.COM.