Ancestry/Genealogy

that's where vital records are also kept. An index for births, one for deaths and one for marriages. In the index is the name and date of event and the vol. number and page number in the record book so you can find the original and copy off the info or get a certified copy from the clerk.
The marriage ones and deaths I have put online for researchers. With my researchers help I was able to purchase the index for marriages and for deaths, too many to try to buy the births. (after wrangling with the department county and state for a while) They had to be made to understand that the index was public record and as such I could buy a copy at, it turned out, a dollar a page.

Much of these now are on the Familysearch.com site, but when I was doing it in the 1990s they weren't.
My goal right now is to try to put on obituaries for as many of the burials in my cems as possible up to around 2010 and get them linked to their tombstone transcription.