This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fay Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TZ.2ADE/4439.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your reply. I haven't replied until now since I have made contact with St. Augustine's and know that I'm on the right track. Let it be confirmed: St. Augustine's is alive and well. The archivist gave me this general information about their records: "The older books are brittle and fragile. The ink in many cases is faded with styles of writing varied and more or less legible. Reading them (and there are records back to 1843) in many cases is quite challenging. Some are in English, others are in Latin. Unfortunately, our funeral/death records begin with 1951. My understanding that some of our records were stored in a church in New Haven which was destroyed in a fire."