Nancy Knight wrote: > I know from personal experience . My mother's birth certificate was > burned in that fire. I think they must have lost some records. She need > a passport and could not get her birth certificate, but was told to > check her church baptism records and that would be acceptable. Mother > was aborn in 1897. Before 1903 birth certificates did not include the child's name, so all searches they do for people born before that date fail. -- Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB