This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Anderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wl.2ADIB/8783.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You can add 1890 to that "hard-to-get" list on Birth Certificates. It seems the states I'm interested in have all had devastating "fires" in their record offices. It wasn't enough to lose the Census' taken in 1890!! Sometimes the SSD is all you have.