To search vital records for Texas, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ Birth Indices are available for most counties. For a complete Texas search go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txsearch.html#county or scroll down just a bit for a county by county search. The search results on a surname will include all available instances of the surname listed in the indices. In addition many RootsWeb Texas County pages have links to these indices, along with the particular county files that have been transcribed to their archives. http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/index.htm is the link to Texas Vital Records. Here it explains the criteria for ordering birth and death records (50 years for birth, 25 years for death). Also included is how to order a "verification" of a record. See http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/verbcd.htm My research in Bexar, Guadalupe, Nueces, Grayson, Robertson, Montague, Houston Counties has been greatly enhanced by the hard work that has gone into developing these indices. bev ------- End of Forwarded Message Bev <brencher@earthlink.net>