In a message dated 9/20/2006 6:00:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I lookd at the web site of Mass Docs, they said that if you don't know the date of the record you need you have to use some other service to find out before you order the document from them. Did I misunderstand? I sure didn't see anything else about them doing research. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX I think if you tell the list what you know about this person we may be able to help you. Any luck with census research? At what point are you in this research? Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr&surna me=A