Marilyn, I'd like to expand on a couple or so: Birth, Death and Marriage can also include notices of those various vitals posted from a newspaper. Lookup is a rather odd classification for those that are offering to DO lookups from certain sources they may have access to. This is not limited to vital stats nor to posts that have mixed info from various sources. Sharon Dulcich ----------------------------- In a message dated 8/29/2006 4:02:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Kaesemein@aol.com writes: Query - A question seeking information or data. Bible - Information that is posted from someone's family Bible. Biography - Posted information that doesn't come from official records. It may be from a book, newspaper article, family tree or general information about a person that someone has knowledge of. Birth - Official birth records. Cemetery - Information from cemetery burial books or headstones. Census - Transcriptions of census records Death - Information from death certificates or from a book of transcribed death records. Deed - Information from deeds or land ownership records. Immigration - Information from immigration or citizenship records. Lookup - Several sources of information such as birth, death and marriage records, all in the same post, where someone has done a lookup in reply to a query. Marriage - A record from the court house with official marriage license information. Military - Official record of someone's military service. Obituary - Transcription of a newspaper obituary. Pension - Information about an official record of a military pension -- may apply to Civil War or Revolutionary War survivors or their widows. Will - A copy of a will from the court. All of the above can either be a reply to a Query or not. They may be posted just because they apply to this county board. I'd appreciate opinions if any of these don't make sense or should be expanded on, as I'm not certain if they all sound correct. Thanks for your help, Marilyn