Information on births usually includes name, date of birth, race, sex, birth order, place, mother, mother s age and place of birth, father, father s age, place of birth, and occupation, and attending doctor or mid-wife. Sometimes the exact location of the birth is given, and rarely, cities or counties are listed with the state on the parent s place of birth. Some entries indicate the race of the parents. For some reason, some children s surnames have different spellings than the father s surname. It is unclear if this was a typographic error during transcription or an error on the original document, however, entries were indexed as typed in the book.
Most entries give the mother s maiden name, but some give only first names or the married name.
Information on deaths usually includes the name, date of death, age, cause of death and the attending doctor. Some entries have place of birth, place of burial, race, sex, occupation, and even parent s names and parent s place of birth. Note that if the place of burial indicates Home Cemetery look for the burial around their homestead as there is no cemetery named Home in Okfuskee County. The page numbers shown on the index will not be shown on the LDS microfilm as they were added after microfilming. Alternatively, count to the approximate starting point, find several names on that page, and recheck this index to see about where you are on the microfilm versus where you need to be.