Greetings listers, The NEHGS Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 on-line database has improved considerably over the last year. Sam Sturgis, NEHGS database webmaster, has been adding a ton of images. My request is to the website subscribers. When you are doing a search and spot an unconnected entry, reads "image not available", please send me an email, so I can look into the problem. This isn't just the entries you are looking for, but, let's say you are looking for a Patrick Doherty in Boston and see a Patrick Doherty in Fall River that is unconnected, send that entry along. There are a lot of reasons why the entry may not be connected: 1: the entry has an error (town, year, vol, page, etc); 2: the page number actually has a half (1/2) or letter (b) indicator and the second page with that number isn't connected; 3: the image was skipped by the contractor; 4: extremely rare, the image doesn't exist now and didn't exist when the FHL microfilmed the records; 5: one of the page fields was skipped when some corrections were fixed last year (these have the number zero where the page number would be above the image frame; 6. the entry is in the year 1903-1910 and the year does not match the volume 7: the entry is an amended record. I'll check it out and get it listed as Amended Record: 8: and finally, it is part of the 1886-90 marriage volume where someone, in the office that held the records, punched elongated binder ring holes on the index and they obliterated the page numbers for every other page wherever the holes were put. There are still 4000 of these in the database to find and fix. I suspect these will be the last to be fixed, because it takes going through pretty much every page for a town per volume to find the missing entries. I'm getting ready to start looking through the 267 images for Boston entries in volume 381, but this will go very slow. There are 15 volumes (370, 371, 372, 379, 380. 381, 388, 389, 390, 397, 398, 399, 406, 407, and 408) in this group. I finish up a big project tomorrow and will have time the rest of the summer to actually work on what you send me. Thanks for any assistance. Sue Richart NEHGS Volunteer