Diana, The Crawford County Genealogical Society can be contacted by e-mail at genealogy@pittsburg.lib.ks.us or at 308 N. Walnut, Pittsburg, KS 66762. The Genealogical Society offers several CD's for sale. One of those is Tombstone Transcriptions of All Known Cemeteries in Crawford County, Kansas 1867-1976. The price of this CD is $12 for members of the Genealogical Society and $22 for non-members (Membership is $13 per year). If you have just a few names, post another message to this mailing list or send me an e-mail, and I will look them up for you. Some Crawford County burials can be found online at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/crawford/cemetery.html or http://www.interment.net/us/ks/crawford.htm. Most older Kansas newspapers can be viewed on microfilm ordered through interlibrary loan from the Kansas State Historical Library and viewed at your local public library. I believe you can get the film numbers from the Kansas State Historical Library's website as well as instructions for having your library order the film Their website is http://www.kshs.org/library. From the website you can determine the dates the McCune Herald and other older newspapers were published. The Girard newspaper would probably have had obits for the McCune area. Since Parsons (in Labette County) would have been the closest larger town, I would also suggest checking out the newspapers there. Over the past years I have ordered many reels of microfilm of the local newspapers and have enjoyed finding mention of my family in the news and society columns. So far I have read the Arcadia papers from 1882 to 1935, and I have learned a lot about my own family and also much about the events of the times and how they were perceived by and affected the residents of Crawford County. Other CD's available from the Crawford County Genealogical Society include Abstract of Crawford County, Kansas Births 1886 to 1905 and Abstract of Crawford County, Kansas Marriages 1867 through 1902. Again, if you have just a few names, I would be glad to look them up for you. The state of Kansas did not keep death records until 1 Jul 1911. The office of the Crawford County Clerk has birth and death indexes listed alphabetically by last name which are available for public use. I am not sure of the dates they cover but into the 1900's. I think the nice staff there would check for you if you wrote to them at: Crawford County Clerk, P.O. Box 249, Girard, KS 66743-0249. The phone number is (620)724-6115 or toll-free at 18-888-504-8683, and their website is http://www.crawfordcountykansas.com. I noticed there is a place to click if you want to write the clerk an e-mail message. Once you have the date of death, you can order a death certificate for someone who died after June 1911 by sending a check for $10 payable to State Registrar of Vital Statistics to: Office of Vital Statistics, 900 S.W. Jacson, Topeka, KS 66612. I believe the e-mail address for the Office of Vital Statistics is info@kdhe.state.ks.us. A good listing of other resources for Crawford County research can be found at http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Crawford/. Lois Kay in Arizona _____________________________________________________________ Click here for self-employed health insurance. Compare quotes! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2121/fc/Ioyw6i3mJcC3lYo7hhlVxc24yIMrocLr1aaLeluNkezrpojzHP70eP/