What is the source of the index entry data?
1913-1935 Indexes: In the 1970s, the Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics constructed computer indices of death certificates by inputting a few basic fields of data. These fields are last name (up to 11 characters), first name (up to 7 characters) and optional middle initial, county of death, date of death (mm/dd/yyyy), death certificate volume, and death certificate number. Those computer indices, limited by the technology of that time, are no longer with us, but OHS holds carbon copies of the printouts (some on paper, some on microforms). The OVIL project scanned the hardcopy, and then processed those image files with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program. The OCR program output text files, which were then verified by comparing the scanned images against the OCR output. 1936-1944 Indexes: This index was created by volunteers participating in the Family Records Extraction Program (FREP) of the Family and Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Chri
