This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DorisWaggoner Surnames: Bastion, Bastiaanse, Van Schaick, Schermerhorn, Burgess Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.unknown/12783.2.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It looks like you have access to IN marriage and death records. I've been looking for a long time for a couple of such records, with no luck. I have a Henry BASTION, b. 8 Mar. 1783 in Schenectady NY, married to Neeltje or Eleanor SCHERMERHORN, b. 22 Apr. 1781 also Schenctady. She had her last child there 20 Feb. 1821. Sometime that year the family moved to Floyd Co, IN. I can find no record at all of her after that. She might have died in childbirth, but I've corresponded with descendants of that child, so I know the baby survived. The NY death records haven't turned her up. Or she might have come to IN. So I'm looking for a death record of her in IN. I'm also looking for a marriage record of Henry in Floyd Co or nearby. He was living in Jackson Co. in 1822, where he appears on the tax rolls, and again in 1850, where he is on the census, no wife, with his daughter, Helen BURGESS and her husband George. I've found a couple of marriage records in the IN index in the 1820s and 1830s, but not as complete as what you cite. Henry's pa! rents were Johannes BASTIAANSE (maybe given as John Bastion; Henry changed his name from Hendrick Bastiaanse when he moved to IN) and Eva VAN SCHAICK. I don't know if you can help, but it would be wonderful to finally know when and where she died. And it would be good to know if he remarried and to whom. There are other Henry Bastions in IN at the time, so without an age on the marriage record it's tricky. Thanks, Doris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.