This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0EB.2ACE/395.1 Message Board Post: This webpage will give you contact information for the town clerk of Wellfleet, including an email link--although that might not be the clerk you want.. http://www.wellfleetma.org/Public_Documents/WellfleetMA_Departments/clerk The town clerk's office is probably the quickest and least expensive way to get the information you want. You did not give dates, but they were married in 1904 with Edla recorded in Barnstable and Jacob in Wellfleet, so death records won't be online. However I have a couple of questions. The marriage information I just mentioned is from an online database at the NEHGS website which has (for a specific span of years) an index of the records at the Massachusetts archives that were sent to the state by the town clerks each year. That information suggests that the town clerks of Wellfleet and Barnstable should be able to help with marriage records. However, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Charles Crocker, I can tell you that in some Barnstable records the marriage is reported as April 19, 1904 "Jacob Hill, 23, of West Barnstable and Edla Kauranen, 20, of Hyannis." The Barnstable town webpage explains that "We are the Town of Barnstable, and we have 7 villages in the town: Hyannis, Centerville, Osterville, Cotuit, Marstons Mills, West Barnstable, and Barnstable." So you may want to go to the Barnstable clerk. My thought, which may not be a very good one, would be that the marriage record information would have been given by young people about facts close in time--that is, who their parents were and where they lived. The death record information will have been given by an informant who is not the subject of the record and may not know or may be too distressed to really care what the information really is. So I would myself try first for the marriage information--those records ask for parents names, although they don't always have them. The question, given the records I quoted, is which clerk to try. The Barnstable town clerk has a very good webpage and even a PDF request form for vital records as well as other contact information. http://www.town.barnstable.ma.us/tob02/depts/AdministrativeServices/Finance/TownClerk/default.asp The town clerk's business is partly to provide information in the public record--they must do that by law--but they are not in the genealogy research business, so they will need all the information you can give them and probably have requirements as to what span of years they will investigate. You might want to specify that you would like all the facts they have, not just a certificate. All my contacts with the clerks in MA have been positive. They have been friendly, prompt and efficient. I hope it's that way for you too.