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From: "Annette Nelson" <>
Subject: Re: need 1910 census index or soundex lookup - Willard Smith
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:33:53 -0600


Dora, I can't help with a census search right now, but I did do some other
checking.

The Utah Historical Society has a burial search database (not working
this afternoon) that you can get to from
http://www.history.utah.org/Services/lcburials.html . Since I couldn't get
thru, I called them (I work on projects for them and don't mind making
calls). They were able to look for your Williard Smith and they found:
Willard Thompson Smith, buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery - Salt Lake City,
Utah
I got a phone recording at the cemetery, but if you want to call, they are
open until noon on Saturdays and until 4pm on weekdays. Their phone number
is 801-582-2552. It's a huge cemetery and their records aren't complete
online yet.

Since I knew there was a Willard Smith buried here, I called the Utah
State Archives to see if they have his death certificate. They have death
certificates up to 1949 and I figured that there was a good chance he would
have died by then. They found 8 Willard Smiths, including Willard Thompson
Smith. Their computer database only gives skeleton information, but they
were able to tell me that he died in Salt Lake County on 6 Jan 1925, at the
age of 53. Sounds like the right age, eh?
You can contact the Archives directly at 801-538-3012 (ask for the
reference room) and ask them to send you a copy of the death certificate. I
think they'll charge $1 or so (it's a copy of the microfilm copy -- if you
ask the Health Dept for a copy it will cost about $10). If you call at a
good time, they might do a look-up while you're on the phone and tell you
what's on the death certificate -- or call you right back with the info.

If this Willard Thompson Smith is your guy, you might want to then
check the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News to see if there is an obituary.
If so, you might get some great info off that.

I'm unavailable this next week, but if you want my help after that, I
can run to Salt Lake and get the death certificate, check microfilm for
obituaries, and maybe go to the cemetery for a photo of the grave.

Hope this helps :-)

Annette Nelson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dora Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: need 1910 census index or soundex lookup


I'm trying to locate my great uncle, who after a
short but illustrious political career in
Delaware, is supposed to have gone to Utah and
gone into business for himself, also married and
had children. No clue where in Utah. He was an
attorney. I both looked in the national attorney
directories for the early part of this century in
Utah, and contacted the Utah bar association. No
record of him in either place. I do not know
that he went into business for himself practicing
law.

Could someone with access to either the 1900
census index that includes Utah on CD (FTM makes
one for the midAtlantic states, no kidding) or
the 1900 soundex, please look for Willard T.
Smith, born around 1871-1873 in (a place on the
state line that variously belonged to) Delaware
or Pennsylvania. I have access to 1910 census for
the entire country - but no indexing.

And no, I really don't want to send for one bunch
of films from LDS, for $30 or so, in order to
find out which OTHER bunch of films to send for
from LDS, for $30 or so, if the soundex even has
my person - which in one case, it didn't even
though on locating him by another method he
perfectly well was in the census. This guy's
been on my send for from LDS list for two years.


Yours,
Dora Smit

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