In a message dated 9/20/2006 6:16:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: If I'm reading Dora's question properly, NEHGS will not have the information she seeks. Nor will the Boston Public Library. Someone will have to go to MA Vital Records to pull a post-1946 record. Searching the State index is the only feasible course, given that she's not sure in which of 5 Western MA counties the record may be. Dora did not mention whether she had tried the SSDI (Soc. Sec. Death Index) to find perhaps a clue as to death date and residence. That might bear fruit, and then someone in that county might be able to look into it. Steve ==================== I wonder what the privacy rules are in Massachusetts about releasing a record this recent are to a total stranger and someone not related. Have not tried to get a record this recent myself. JSR Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr&surna me=A

Jacqueline, The NEHGS has obtained BMD records for me after the 1910 cutoff by using their index books and then going to the Vital Records Archives to transcribe the document. The NEHGS does have the indexes up to at least 1970. They or someone that can visit Newbury St can look through the indexes to get the year, town, vol, and page number. I do think the SSDI index would be a good place to start although the residence listed has not mean that is where she died, just where the benefit check went to. Sue On 9/20/06, : > > > ==================== > I wonder what the privacy rules are in Massachusetts about releasing a > record > this recent are to a total stranger and someone not related. Have not > tried > to get a record this recent myself. > > > Jacqueline Sleeper Russell >

Thanks, Sue, but I've done that. Actually tried everythign short of paying someone to search all those indexes. Relatives' obits, you name it. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] > I do think the SSDI index would be a good place to start although the > residence listed has not mean that is where she died, just where the > benefit > check went to. > > Sue -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006