I think he based his article on another blogger (he gave the address) and the other blogger also omitted the real reason. It just makes getting the dates of deaths a bit more difficult but it really is based upon the state laws. But who says genealogy is easy? :-P BJ On 11/7/2011 10:09 AM, Linda H Gutierrez wrote: > Thank you, BJ, for this clarification. Eastman certainly did NOT write up > his article in a way that sufficiently explained the issue behind this > decision. > >