{"id":8097,"date":"2025-03-29T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoregenealogysociety.org\/BCGShome\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:37:49","slug":"baltimore-city-death-index-is-100-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoregenealogysociety.org\/BCGShome\/baltimore-city-death-index-is-100-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore City Death Index is 100% complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Baltimore City Death Index is 100% complete from 1875 to 2014.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Many transcribers have helped, spending thousands of hours entering the data.<\/li>\n<li>The Baltimore City index has 1,577,175 records. Many certificates were hard to read.<\/li>\n<li>One of our transcribers is a medical record transcriber who can decipher a doctor&#8217;s handwriting.<\/li>\n<li>We have 21 records with partial data that could not be read.<\/li>\n<li>Our transcribers are reviewing and adding additional information to our database.<\/li>\n<li>Also, 100% of all deaths in Maryland counties from 1969 to 2014.<\/li>\n<li>After we finish the review, we will index the death records for Maryland counties from 1898 to 1968.<\/li>\n<li>There are 2,907,107 records in the database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore City Death Index is 100% complete from 1875 to 2014. Many transcribers have helped, spending thousands of hours entering the data. The Baltimore City index has 1,577,175 records. Many certificates were hard to read. 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