"Listers, Genies, Newbies, lend me your ears!" (Shakespeare?) As some of you know, I really do enjoy helping folks track Florida ancestors--perhaps because I wish I had some. But... As some of you also know, our genealogical world deals in three primary currencies: names, dates, and places. When posting requests on lists, we can usually increase our chances of a getting a "hit" by giving some parameters to the information sought. There've been a number of folks recently who, apparently having just heard of certain indexes and censuses and being used to our modern Internet search engines, apparently imagine that there is a large, unified, single-series, on-line finding aid for everything. I wish it were so. However,... A request for the death of John Q. Doe is not readily "do-able," I fear, if there is absolutely nothing to tie it to some time frame. The index covers more than 120 years and consists of hundreds or thousands of separate microfiche, mostly indexed by individual years. As much as I would like to help, in light of the recent volume of requests, I simply cannot afford the time involved to tilt with undated windmills. That's why I never respond to list-wide requests for "all info on the Florida Joneses or Smiths, or Browns, or the entire Lipschitz family." My only other hope in this plaintive request is that you'll let us who try to help know that you got the information we sent. E-mail has no return receipts (that I know of), so we don't know whether the information got to you or is floating somewhere in the great void of cyberspace. No need to send money--or even thanks--but do let us know that you got the info so that we can clear it from our computers. Many thanks! -Brian Michaels ******************************************************