In a message dated 14/01/2004 12:03:05 GMT Standard Time, Lesley Robertson writes: > You need to get her death certificate, or get someone to look at it. > English/Welsh certs are not as informative as scottish one, but it should at > > least tell you who her father was. Genuki carries the info on how to get at > such certificates. > Thanks - but I have had her death certificate for 6 months - I always get certificates before asking. This one is a Welsh one and only gives her husband's name. I have searched through MIs, etc. in the hope that some of her family might show up - as have other distant relatives in Canada for the past 20 years! The only extra piece of information that might be of use is that her husband's brother called one of his daughters Esther Carson Burgess. Why was this? Could the minister have got totally confused (i.e. parents written as Samuel Burgess/Euphemia Colthard rather than James Burgess/Jean Carson), am I missing something? Does anyone know of a manufacturing firm called Carson or Crae/Mcrae near the border? Apart from place and cause of death, the Eng & Wales death certs are really very little help to family historians. Why oh why did most of my Scots ancestors die in Eng & Wales ;-) Judy