This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1455.1 Message Board Post: No birth or death records were kept in Grundy County before 1877, and those were hit and miss until 1916 when it was required that all births and deaths must be recorded. No mention was made about Nancy Booth dying in the local newspaper. Lea