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Franklin County Ohio Death Index 1867-1908

The majority of my nearest relations lived in Franklin County, Ohio. I have used RootsMagic to organize the information from my family. I have used FamilySearch.org connect to other family trees as well as researching records they have made available (for free). After exhausting their records, I've paid for a membership to Ancestry.com research more records for these individuals. For individuals who died between 1867 and 1908 in Franklin County, Ohio, their death records are not currently available on either website. However, the Family Search catalog has a listing for the index to the Death records, 1867-1908 . They have an index split between two microfilm reels and death records split between two other reels. I ordered one index reel to look for death records. Perhaps I should have ordered the death records and bypassed the index. Since I haven't done microfilm research in this area before, I thought an index search would be best. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attenti