This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZY.2ADI/353.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Carol, thanks for your suggestions. I am replying on this post, because I think it might help others if they are running up against the same brick walls. I will need to check my files, but I believe the lookup person in Sydney told me that no death was recorded that they found at the courthouse. And as early as 1888 no death cert. was legally necessary. Since the Ewin/g's left the Sterling area and I know where they went back to Iowa....I don't believe there are any descendants remaining in either Sydney or Sterling. I appreciate your suggestions and will recheck my files. And I thank you for the tele number that you gave me. I will check with them. I would love sometime to go to the Sterling - Sydney areas....to poke around myself. Is there old newspapers on microfilm that go back that far? I have found the old gossip community columns so fun to read. Oh...and the time that my ancestors were in the Sydney-Sterling area was between census......family story always said that they all left and went back to Iowa by 1889. And we all know what happened to the 1890 census! In 1883...this Wm. Ewin/g was living in Creston, IA....but then moved WEST.......and died in Sydney. I found him in the 1883 City directory for Creston, IA. I appreciate your suggestions....and will keep searching diligently. Linda Z.