I see that Scotland's People lists 244 Mary Smiths born in 1862 plus or minus one year who died after 1913. As you say, expensive to do online (£287 if you are really unlucky and she is the 244th one you look at, or if she didn't die in Scotland, or if her mother's maiden name isn't on the certificate because the informant didn't know it.) Given that she obviously spent most of her life in Glasgow, one would start by restricting one's search to those deaths registered in Lanarkshire, of which there were only 66. If she died in Lanarkshire that would cut your maximum cost to £84. Obviously it would be cheaper to spend a day in the Scotland's People Centre, pay the £15 for the day, and plough through the 244 certificates, or as many of them as necessary to find her, but equally obviously that is only practical if you are within reach of Edinburgh or Glasgow. It would be possible to look at 244 certificates in a day if you are not trying to take notes from all of them. You might find a kind volunteer willing to do this, but it could take a significant chunk of the volunteer's day. That's quite a big ask for people who only go occasionally and have their own research to do A more reliable way would be to commission a professional searcher. This would almost certainly be cheaper than £287, but if the first certificate they looked as was hers, then obviously you would lose out. See http://www.asgra.co.uk/ HTH Anne From: Joyce Pavelko via <lanark@rootsweb.com> To: lanark@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 16:49 Subject: [Lanark] Looking for death record-Mary SMITH-b.1862 I am looking for the death record of an ancestor named Mary Smith. Because of the large number of Mary Smiths listed in Scotland's People, it is cost-prohibitive to pay to view all the records. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be appreciative. I have listed a basic outline of facts we have from various documents. Though she was born in Stirlingshire, her adult life was in Lanarkshire. Relatives remember that she visited the family in Maryland, USA in 1913, but we lost track of her after that year. There is a death record for a Mary Hutton Smith listed in the Perth newspaper index. However, I determined that she is not our ancestor. Apart from her birth record, Mary Smith's middle name of Hutton does not appear on any other documents. Because she did not have any biological children, we suspect that her death record does not give many details, but we would like to find out. Some of the surnames of people who may have signed the death record include: STIRLING-HUNTER-BURROWS-GRANT Thank you, Joyce Here are some of the facts we have: Mary Hutton SMITH b. 16 Mar 1862 Slamannan, Stirlingshire parents: Thomas SMITH and Elizabeth STAFFORD Marriage: 1886 to William SMITH (b.1836-d.1894) in Glasgow Residences: 1871 Slamannan 1881 Glasgow 1886 Arlington St. Glasgow 1891 Renfrew St. Glasgow Arrival/Departure Sep 1913 Glasgow-New York   ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online:  http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message