More Pre-1930 Oklahoma City Death Info from an Unexpected Source
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009by Brian Basore, Chief Library Technician
Oklahoma is a new enough state that history and family research are still pretty much the same thing, which is why so much of the Research Division’s work has been genealogical for almost 80 years. People who are looking for their family’s past want to find, among other kinds of things, death records. Information about deaths in Oklahoma before 1930 can be difficult to find. I don’t understand why any of the Oklahoma City city directories have death listings in them, but some do. (more…)
When making the decision to accept an artifact for donation, several criteria are applied including condition, relevance, and provenance; the history of an object’s ownership. Each object that is accepted into the collection is assigned an accession number that records the object in order of acquisition. As I inventory the textile collection, I am sometimes faced with the need to deaccession, or dispose of, an artifact that is in poor condition or lacks any provenance. 