"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. Henry