Free search for 10 days at Ancestry.com: Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics, 1700s-1920 http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5515.htm Search for BOON - no hits Search for BOONE - 73 hits - many slaves and black non-slaves included. Note the Extended Description of the database (scroll down the search page). It begins with "There are errors in the book that have been transferred to the database." Ron [email protected]