In a message dated 22/07/2004 10:03:54 GMT Daylight Time, Stanmapstone@aol.com writes: In a message dated 22/07/2004 07:46:53 GMT Daylight Time, honey@honeyshome.com writes: I was under the impression that death certificates carried a fair amount of information, Non-British ones often do, sometimes amounting to a life-story of the deceased in themselves - but those from this country are concerned only with the basics - who it was that had died, how old they were, the place and cause of death and who the informant was. Geoff Nicholson 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Long-established Professional Genealogist: ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research by THE local expert, working for YOU.