Let me advise you to take the information especially in the pre 1910 records with a large grain of salt. We can't even find a death record for grandpa K's sister, altho the cemetery has a record of her burial and from which undertaker she came, her death certificate from the City records gives me a 40 yr. old lady who died of exhaustion with a similar name (Pearl)filed as our Pearl, who was a 4 yr. old child in 1900. One of the clerks noticed this and drew it to my attention with a post it note when I sent off for the city records. The hand written list of deaths from Mid Continent Library in Independence lists the 40 year old lady, but nothing for the little girl and I was given the photo copy of the entire page in the death book... so no, you can't exactly trust the accuracy of the past records when dealing with public employees. Same with another great grandmother who died after 1890 in Kansas City. All the facts match fairly well until it comes to her age and the fact she must have had her first child at the age of 12 or 13, immigrated as a child herself from Darmstadt Germany, come on out to Ohio/Indiana to marry grandpa who was from Bavaria and that, altho she is listed as a widow of Frank in the City Directory of KCMO in l891-92, no one has a record of him dying..either in Missouri or Ohio or Indiana. So, I just include the Darmstadt grandma as being "fairly accurate" and put her information in my binder. And where they were buried was not entered in the records I have seen to date either. In a message dated 1/8/2009 8:50:04 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, lemaes63@msn.com writes: Hello, I am wondering if anyone knows how the death records were posted online. Were they transcribed by hand from the original? I had asked about obituaries and the Little Sisters of the Poor organization on my last posting on this list. The library couldn't find obituaries for me. But, I did find some differences in the information I have right now. The online death record gave Franklin Asbury Dubois the age of 80 in 1919, and the lady who lived with his family as a servant and had died the same year was given the age of 68. But, in the 1880, 1900 and 1910 censuses they were always the same age. A young lady related to Franklin who has a site online for him gave his death year as 1916. I am not sure who to believe. Normally, I would pick the death record for accuracy, but I have had an error on one other family member, when the information was given by a second wife who did not really know the parents of the deceased and gave his son's name as the parents name. So I guess you ki! nd of have to be careful about trusting the informants information. Would anyone be able to suggest a new path. I know that Franklin Dubois was often called Captain Frank Dubois, as he was that rank during the Civil War. His wife was daughter of a banker in Ohio, and he seemed to be well known there. His fortunes may have slipped or something but I was surprised there was no obituary for him. Even if he hadn't lived in Missouri very long at the time of his death. I am so hoping to find out about his relationship to his "servant" Julia, as she may very well be my husband's great-grandmother who went missing. Thank you, Leemae from Mi. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KANSASCITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002)