HankC wrote: > Look in the City Directories for the last city you know she lived in. > They are available at the local library. > In the year she is no longer at the same address, that's the year she was > likely married. Hank, Remember that these are high school grads that were living with their parents, so the listings would be in the parents' names. > Libraries also have a marriage index but I don't know if there is a blackout > period. In RI, the index is published by the groom's, as well as the bride's > name. That an excellent approach I hadn't considered. I'll check with my library about that. If you've read my other responses, you'll note that N.J. has some strict privacy statutes that deal with vital records of all kinds - birth, marriage, death - even if those events were publicized in newspapers when then occurred and should/could be considered public. > For guys, also check the local property tax assessor. In my state, property > tax records are avail on line. Sometimes, they are searchable by the Lname > of the owner. You have to do a little digging around the town site because > the local officials don't make it easy to find. That's a good idea that I had followed when I was preparing for the 50th reunion that took place in August 2006. In N.J., there is one website that lets me search by county (we have 21), and all the towns within a county, but not the entire state at once. (N.J. has 566 municipalities.) There are 20 guys I haven't located, and since they aren't listed in the Social Security Death Index, most likely they are alive. 66% of the 263 graduates I located still live in N.J. So 66% of 20 means 14 of the missing guys are likely to still be in N.J. (The second most popular state is Florida.) I don't know what percent of the classmates own rather than rent, but I recheck the tax records for these guys again. That could mean as many as 21 searches for 14 guys, or 294 searches! Of course, I would search the most likely and most populated counties first. > Don't forget to google their names. If they bought a house, went to court, > had a child, joined an association, got a promotion, were a witness at > someone else's wedding, etc, there may be a Google entry. I've googled them all. > Try other search engines too; I've found stuff on AltaVista which Google > didn't find. Good point. I rarely venture beyond google, since the others seem relatively limited. But it's easy enough to run the 20 guys through AltaVista. Thanks, Hank. Ray