Based on a query I just received, I should clarify my post yesterday. I have full access to the NEHGS Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 on-line database. I do and will, if possible, correct or link entries for any county in Massachusetts. If I can access the image or find the correct page, I will correct the entry. What I am currently working on are the index pages that had the town column shift and the index pages that the surnames were chopped off (they show as ??). I've corrected five of the eight index pages with the town column shifts, but only around 150 of the 900 chopped off surname entries. Just a couple of tips on the database. If the entry is listed as "image not available" or it isn't on the page it is listed for, always check the volume and page number with NO other search criteria. Someone might have already corrected and linked a name on that page, but not everyone else. Sometimes the entry is on the page, but isn't linked for a number of reasons. One being late registration, another is a column shift effecting the year or town. If your individual isn't there, but someone with a very similar name is, check the list of names for the volume and page to see if that name is there. There are enough occasions where every column after the name shifts down one and occasionally two lines. Please post to the NEHGS forum when you find these. Also, please know that there are three and a half index volumes missing from the database. They cover 1886-1890 births for names starting around Smith and going to the Zs; 1886-1890 marriages starting around Moulton and going to around Savery; 1891-1895 marriages starting around Frothingham and going to around Kane; and 1891-1895 deaths covering at least surnames Carter, Casey, and Cheever. As the Saugus GenWeb Town Coordinator, I've gone through the all but the last volume and made a list of "not included" names for that GenWeb website. I do have a distinct advantage, because I can link the images. I will be letting the GenWeb town coordinators know, when I've updated entries for their towns as that occurs. Don't hold your breath, because this is a slow process. Finally, there are two ways you can help with the database. If you can get to Boston periodically and would be willing to volunteer your time, let me know and I will send your email on to the NEHGS volunteer coordinator. She does need more volunteers to scan images and other tasks. The second way involves taking the time and checking each entry on an image. One image per day or per week, or even per month would be a help. For example, if you are looking at volume 315 pg 65 (1880 Boston births). If you do a copy and paste special (text) over to a spreadsheet, you can print out the list easily. Check each entry on the list to see if it is there or other names are there but not listed. You can email your findings to me and I'll work on correcting them and, if you want, show you how to find the person. There are a number of different errors that occur and it takes a while to learn them all. This would be a real help, because the one thing I am not doing is checking each name on a page. If for example, a Worcester entry was listed as page 368 and 368 is a valid page number for Worcester in that volume, I wouldn't notice that the entry was really on page 366. Now, if the server usage slows down, I'll work on the names folks have sent me already. Sue Richart NEHGS Volunteer Living in the frozen foothills of the Huckleberry Mountains of eastern Washington State. We were at minus 5 degrees F this morning.