Are you familiar with NY? If so, can you help me or tell me of someone that will. I am having troubles with finding the marriage and death of my step gmother in law and of the death of gmother in law. I search every agency in NYC.and state and they do not have any records of either,however, they lived in Ny since they immigrated.I do not understand then why they cannot find records I even wrote to the nursing home that Hyman was at (even tho I knew that they were not in business anymore)to find if they had any information on Fannie(second wife of Hyman)nothing came out of it tho.I contacted the funeral home that handle him-no avail. Found out that in NY there is a law which states that funeral home are required to keep records for four years and then do with them as they please.Is there a place that keeps such records or am I barking up the wrong tree! I wrote to the cemetery too and they wrote that they had a Fannie Hoffman in another lot/section-that they had norecords indicated if she was the wife or not-that they opened for a few years before.To make a long story short-I received the certificate=it was not herSince that time I received two more dcs which also were wrong-I have also looked for the obits(1st & 2nd wife)in the NYT and had same results.-so where do I go from here! It is very frustrating to know that seven in a half years has gone by and I'm still at ground zero.HELP ME-I'm SINKING. Rose Hoffman

Dear Rose, I think you will get more responses by making a unique Subject Line, possibly like this one. Best Wishes, Dave Witthans P.S. They have determined that you cannot drown in "quick sand", so hang in there... ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] Name of cemetery & funeral home? Are you familiar with NY? If so, can you help me or tell me of someone that will. I am having troubles with finding the marriage and death of my step gmother in law and of the death of gmother in law. I search every agency in NYC.and state and they do not have any records of either,however, they lived in Ny since they immigrated.I do not understand then why they cannot find records I even wrote to the nursing home that Hyman was at (even tho I knew that they were not in business anymore)to find if they had any information on Fannie(second wife of Hyman)nothing came out of it tho.I contacted the funeral home that handle him-no avail. Found out that in NY there is a law which states that funeral home are required to keep records for four years and then do with them as they please.Is there a place that keeps such records or am I barking up the wrong tree! I wrote to the cemetery too and they wrote that they had a Fannie Hoffman in another lot/section-that they had norecords indicated if she was the wife or not-that they opened for a few years before.To make a long story short-I received the certificate=it was not herSince that time I received two more dcs which also were wrong-I have also looked for the obits(1st & 2nd wife)in the NYT and had same results.-so where do I go from here! It is very frustrating to know that seven in a half years has gone by and I'm still at ground zero.HELP ME-I'm SINKING. Rose Hoffman