Hi Loretta, Well, I'm neither a member of the Filson Club nor do I live within several thousand miles of the Louisville Public Library (I'm in Northern California), but I have rented all of the Louisville Mortuary Books from the Family History Center and I found a few Schnetz/Schmetz deaths there that might be of interest to you. Book 6, page 232 SCHMETZ, Charles male/white/single 8 mos. date of death 1 Apr 1886 cause: cerebral meningitis Dr. Blackburn attending residence: 15th & Grayson, 11th Ward buried 3 April 1886 St. Michael's Cemetery Book 6, page 284 SCHNETZ, Sophie female/white/single 10 yrs (or months, or days) dod 13 Oct 1886 cause: croup Dr. Sauter attending born Louisville residence 731 E. Broadway, 3rd Ward buried 15 Oct 1886 St. Louis Cemetery Book 6, page 298 SCHNETZ, William male/white/single 10 mos. cause: diptheria Dr. Sauter attending born Louisville residence 735 E. Broadway, 3rd Ward dod 2 December 1886 buried 3 December 1886 St. Louis Cemetery Book 6, page 319 SCHMETZ, Samuel male/white/married 61 years born: Germany dod 10 Feb 1887 cause: pneumonia res: 7th St. Road E buried 13 Feb 1887 Eastern Cemetery Book 7, page 153 SCHNECK, Henry male/white/single 1 yr born Louisville dod 5 Apr 1889 cause: meningitus res 1019 Shelby, 3rd Ward Dr. Sauder attending buried 7 Apr 1889 Cave Hill Cemetery I included all these spellings because these are handwritten records, transcribed by a clerk from the undertakers' certificates and the writing and the spelling range from decent to ghastly. The State - excuse me - Commonwealth of Kentucky did not do death certificates until 1911, and we are very lucky that the City of Louisville had what they called "Mortuary Books" that they kept from 1866 until the state took over in 1911. It appears that young Robert probably either wasn't one of her children and may well have died outside of the City of Louisville - or maybe they missed him in the records (or I did). Anyhow, if you know the addresses of your Schnetzes between 1886-1889, you may find that these are among them. I will be getting the Jefferson Co. Marriage Registers on film soon, and could possibly look out for your Schnetz family there. However, like death records, the state took over the marriage records in 1911, so you should probably check to see if those records are available through the state for at least Charles & Louis, who would have been too young (or close to too young in Charles' case) to have married prior to 1911. I hope that this is of some help to you. Happy Hunting! Loretta Mikolyski wrote: > Hi List. > I'm wondering if there's some kind soul who either is a member of the Filson > Club or lives near the Louisville free public library who is willing and > able to search in the Louisville death register. My grgrandmother had two > children between 1884 and 1900 who died before 1900. A Mr. Pen Bogert from > the Filson Club was able to locate a death of a child named Robert Schnetz > from the Cave Hill Cemetery records that was taken from the city death > register. He told me that this city death register is indexed alphabetically > from 1866-1910. Also Mr. Bogert felt that the free public library would have > this register on microfilm. So if someone was able to do this search, I'd be > glad to compensate for copies made of records found and postage. One problem > with these records is that they don't list parents' names, only address of > deceased person. Thank you very much for your help. > Gratefully, Loretta Lee > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > http://www.migrations.org > If your information isn't in our database, submit it today! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237