Kathy; You are correct. In the examples shown by sender, the first number does indeed mean whether death was in years, months, days. And in the 3 deaths listed, the number (1) means the persons were ___ years of age at death. My posted message was wrong about that first number (1) which does indeed mean year in this index. The rest of my reply agrees with yours. The sender of the original question typed error (see below) for information about Adelaide's death which was sent as Adelaide dying 2-1-26. . The death index shows: Adelaide A TOBEY 1 65 70 6-13-12 12 17911 Mary : > Tobey, Adelaide 1-65 70 2-1-26 - 12 17911 > Tobey, Don 1-58 70 4-9-15 -15 1155? couldn't read last number > Metz, Mettie 1-57 70 3-8-22 - 22 -11520 1 = Year , 2 = months 3 =days