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/DCB.2ACE/144.1 Message Board Post: Michelle, There were Yellow Fever Epidemics in Baton Rouge and throughout the south in many years. Death certificates were not required at that time. I have posted many of the deaths in Baton Rouge on the Baton Rouge Gazette website located at:   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brgazette/brgazette.htm good luck in your searches. I haven't received the microfilm up the the 1850s yet but it's coming.