Notes

Collection: Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register

User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
Megan Kean	(Duplicate page)	Spread 118	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	6 months ago
mbainbridge	Line 18- Address on page written as 3215 Summ St., Fairfield Md. I think it refers to 3215 Summit St. in south Baltimore, within a neighborhood called Fairfield	Spread 283	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	7 months ago
J Armitage	Not sure what to do about this as it covers two years and there are 3 blank lines, help appreciated	Spread 281	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	7 months ago
mbrockway	Thank you for your help in transcribing the register. Hope you come back. Tips to read the handwriting in this register ... seems to be the same writer for awhile in the register. The writer's "C" has a flourish at the end making it look like...	Spread 278	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	7 months ago
mbrockway	I am not sure the year is correct for this page. Previous pages spanned 1936 - 1937. This page shows 1936 at the top. However, only one date entry indicates 1936, with the next 1937 (see rows 11 and 12). I think this page shows 1937 dates with...	Spread 254	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	7 months ago
mbrockway	Method to Streamline My Transcription - maybe this helps someone else. I have a preference for transcribing the life and death registers with the image at the left. I have a laptop that I frequently use for transcription. With this smallish s...	Spread 201	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	8 months ago
kelseydchung	No year was written on the top left corner, but assume 1934	Spread 191	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	11 months ago
TeeTwoThree	For the cause of death written on line 5, I'm not sure if "Paralysis" is written as part of the cause of death (Meningo-Encephalitis) on line 4, or if it belongs on line 5.	Spread 174	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	12 months ago
kelseydchung	This page is a duplicate of the previous	Spread 157	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
mbainbridge	#11- place of death may have been Eudowood Sanitarium	Spread 29	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
Megan Kean	It's definitely possible one of them is in error, but we have no way of knowing which one. Just transcribing the record as seen is the best we can do!	Spread 116	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
mbainbridge	entry #23 address of beneficiary is 307 S. Dallas St. while decedent is 307 N. Dallas St. Perhaps one is incorrect?	Spread 116	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
J Armitage	No year available	Spread 115	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
J Armitage	Item 25 no further information after field number 8	Spread 99	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	about 1 year ago
mbrockway	Skipped the 5th entry. The image shows that record with a red-line strikeout with a note that appears to say "entered twice".	Spread 49	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
mbrockway	Very important FTP process: a partially done page not being found by the "Pages to Transcribe" button keeps users from stepping on one another's transcription work. I may have been guilty of working on the same page as someone else at the same ti...	Spread 30	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
mbrockway	IMHO: Odd feature of spreadsheet projects here. If a spreadsheet is started, and not marked done or needs review, then FTP doesn't show it in the list of pages to transcribe. Could be useful if the original transcriber forgot to save some wor...	Spread 30	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Docsinging	from 7 to 25 not full in	Spread 4	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Docsinging	\	Spread 7	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Docsinging	number 6 is not full in	Spread 6	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Docsinging	from 8 to 25 not full in	Spread 5	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Docsinging	the first page is missing the second one is full	Spread 1	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Megan Kean	Scanning error down Beneficiary's Address column, will rescan in future	Spread 1	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
Megan Kean	Left page is missing. Put [missing] into the fields with missing information.	Spread 1	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, October 1926 - June 1938	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	over 1 year ago
mbrockway	2nd entry shows a residence of Augusta, Georgia and a place of death of Augusta, Virginia. Given that the complete street address exists only in Georgia, I entered Georgia as the place of death.	mbsb_233s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Duplicate of previous image. Unfortunately ... I realized after I did both transcriptions most of the way through. :(	mbsb_254s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	On the 10th entry, I believe the residence/death address to be "Gum Fork" and not "Gum Folk".	mbsb_271s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Two entries/policies entered at the top. Page has 27 total entries. The top entry shows two different policies with different beneficiaries. This was entered as two separate rows.	mbsb_272s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Entry 14 has tow beneficiaries with two different addresses. Transcribed both separating the info by semicolon.	mbsb_280s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
TeeTwoThree	Looked up Dr. George Murgatroyd's last name. On the document, it is misspelled (G.W. "Margatroyd"). Left the spelling as is.	mbsb_170s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	The first entry was squeezed in above row 1. Some fields were not entered like physician. Those were left blank in the transcription.	mbsb_209s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Entry #1 was struck out. It is a duplicate of the last entry on the previous page. I left the entry BLANK on this transcription.	mbsb_165s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Two beneficiary names entered in one box in row 16.	mbsb_160s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	FYI @michaelaleska on Date of Death (Month) and Date of Death (Day) columns. These do not refer to the exact age in years/months/days. There are other columns referring to the death date. Those columns are on the facing page (not next to the age i...	mbsb_150s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	FYI on Date of Death (Month) and Date of Death (Day). This does not refer to the exact age in years/months/days. There are separate columns referring to the death date. Those columns are on the facing page (not next to the age in years).	mbsb_139s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	FYI for anyone that struggles with the addresses, especially trying to see if it is a North (N) or West (W) street. I have used this webpage showing a list of Baltimore streets. Link: https://geographic.org/streetview/usa/md/baltimore_city/balti...	mbsb_139s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
Digital Maryland	@Mbrockway We currently have it set so that anyone can approve. Though one of us does take a final look just in case.	mbsb_123s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
TeeTwoThree	I was able to find some of the hard-to-read physician's names and/or addresses (e.g., Ravner Browne) on the Maryland State Archives website, listed under the volumes of The First Colored Professional, Clerical and Business Directory of Baltimore C...	mbsb_286s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	This page is a duplicate of the previous page. Marked as blank.	mbsb_114s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
smccarthy135	Also note, Viola Johnson of 1410 Druid Hill and 1427 Argyle ave was a beneficiary for two individuals who died within a day of each other.	mbsb_130s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
smccarthy135	At least one entry had two beneficiaries	mbsb_130s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Row 13 - looked at cause of death lists and can't come up with any match to the wording as it appears. The writing might be laligngitis instead of lalingitis. Either way, not a death cause. I removed the brackets and marked it "Approved".	mbsb_105s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
smccarthy135	One entry had two beneficiaries entered.	mbsb_125s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	General question about this project. Who does the page "APPROVE" task? Is that a project person? a transcriber? Thanks.	mbsb_123s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mkultra313	All address have been double checked	mbsb_122s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	I already settled on as written. Thanks for the feedback.	mbsb_117s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
Digital Maryland	@mbrockway- We've been trying to keep it as written but I know that sometimes I type the extra St or Ave out of habit. Strictly speaking it doesn't cause damage either way.	mbsb_117s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	Duplicate image of mbsb_117s. I marked the page as blank.	mbsb_118s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	On register entry 21 (same as previous note), the date of death was in a different year (1941) than the rest of the entries. I entered the year after the month.	mbsb_117s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago
mbrockway	On register entry 21, the address is for the beneficiary Robert Proctor. Proctor was listed above the address. I entered Proctor at the start of the address.	mbsb_117s	Mutual Benefit Society Death Register, June 1938 through December 1947	Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register	almost 2 years ago