Now that footnote.com and familysearch.com are putting the original death certificates online for copying, I find some interesting records that I must share. I am thinking about the CT researchers that I have met and the Austin genealogists who might want me to send them attached files of this death certificate .  It is two pages. I looked on the AFAOA database for the fellow but he is not there.     THOMAS SEPTIMUS AUSTIN  b abt 1855 in CT, Home is Stratford, CT. a metalurgist by trade.  Died August 22, 1906 at the El Paso Smelter, at the site of Old Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX.  no parents are listed. no wife is listed.  He lived in El Paso for the past 9 years (1897-1906)  He had diabetes.  He had been ill for a month. Dr. H. T. Safford. Mortuary, McBean Simmons and C.  They shipped his body back to Stratford, CT on August 26, 1906.  So you may find him there in a cemetery.   Oh.  I should have looked for him on Findagrave.com!  Oh, Well, you can do it. Write to me if you want the certificate, 2 pages.