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Cause of Death:
Standard keywords were used to record causes of death. Thus one can more
comprehensively isolate all deaths attributed to one particular cause that
was described by many synonymous terms. Some examples of standard keywords
utilized in the cause of death field are: burns (for all victims of fires or
scalding), murdered (instead of homicide, killed, shot to death, etc.),
executed (for all legal executions or capital punishment victims), lynched
(for all illegal hangings or lynchings), grippe (instead of grip or la
grippe), Spanish Influenza (for all who died of influenza, flu, or pneumonia
during the great Spanish Influenza epidemic), World War I fatalities (for
all soldiers who died while in service during World War I), and infirmities
(for all deaths attributed to old age). Many of the key words are followed
by other terms that describe the cause of death. For example, murders &
suicides are followed by the method used (by gun, knife, drowning…), drug
overdose (by opium, morphine…), or World War I fatalities are followed by
whether they were killed in action, or died from disease or accident).
Survivors:
Names of all survivors identified or numbers of surviving relatives were
listed. Relationship to deceased was entered first follow by their names;
for example, “husband: Joseph B. Young; daughter: Mrs. William Allen, Susan
Griffin, Hester & Jane Smith. If only number of relatives were referred to
then relationship of survivors was entered preceded by the number; for
example, 8 children; 3 brothers; 1 sister”. The following order was always
used for entering survivors: husband or wife, sons, daughters, stepchildren,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, parents, stepparents, grandparents,
brothers, sisters, stepbrothers, stepsisters, in-laws, uncles, aunts,
cousins. In each relative category males were listed first. If he was
survived by wife and her maiden name was identified it was entered as “wife:
Hester Ashford Young”. If surviving wife’s first name was not given but her
maiden name was it was entered as “wife (nee Ashford)”. If someone was
identified as being a relative but the exact relationship was not stated it
was entered as “relative: Flora Daniel”. The name of any deceased family
members or any that it is not evident if they are surviving were entered in
the comments field; for example if it stated that she was the daughter of
Joseph & Thenie Ashford but does not indicate if they are still living or
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