Henry Brownlee wrote: > "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message > news:NZmdnQA776FlxOnanZ2dnUVZ_qCunZ2d@rcn.net... > | Can any of you Americans think of any reason why a 1977 > | death would not be recorded where it occurred? > | > | A personal, on-site, search of the relevant state's death > | records turned up absolutely no entry for the surname, let > | alone the exact name, plus or minus a month of the known date. > | > | Mr X gave me his father's birth and death info when Mr. X's > | grandson was born back in 1985. The family threw in other > | details, such as where he lived, and how-come he died in the > | same hospital where the baby had been born. Various > | official records support this verbal information, including > | an SSDI entry for the right name, born the right date, > | residing in the right place, last benefit going to the right > | place, and the SSN issued in the right place. The state has > | no record of such a death. > | > | I wouldn't have thought a hospital wouldn't have filled out > | the paperwork back in 1977, and I wouldn't have thought one > | state would permit a body to moved into another state for > | burial without appropriate wads of paper. > | > | Any ideas? Other than to dig deeper into the obits and > | death notices for the right week? > | > | Cheryl > > Cher, I know this isn't going to be any help, but maybe it's a case like my > Grandma once told me. An old mule dropped dead while pulling a load on > Tchoupitoulas Street. The policeman assigned to the incident wasn't too > keen with his spelling skills, so he dragged it over to Camp Street to make > out his report. > Oui, but hauling a dead mule 'round nawlins is a lot easier than schlepping a dead body around, even in nawlins. ;) Cheryl

singhals wrote: > Henry Brownlee wrote: >> Cher, I know this isn't going to be any help, but maybe it's a case like my >> Grandma once told me. An old mule dropped dead while pulling a load on >> Tchoupitoulas Street. The policeman assigned to the incident wasn't too >> keen with his spelling skills, so he dragged it over to Camp Street to make >> out his report. >> > > Oui, but hauling a dead mule 'round nawlins is a lot easier > than schlepping a dead body around, even in nawlins. ;) You jus' ain' usin' the right lagniappe. -- Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.