Louann, Maryland didn't begin collecting state wide birth & death records until 1898. You can order Maryland records from the archives. Here is the URL: http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/deathhis.html The archives has posted index cards to death records through 1944. Carol -------------- Original message -------------- From: "louann creasy" <jcreasy@cfl.rr.com> > I am having trouble finding anything, birth or death records on my > grandparents, Thomas Kiddy dob16 Jan1895, and his wife Nina Mabel Knott dob > April 1896. > > Some family notes say that Thomas died 22 May 1952, and Nina sometime in > 1954. I am told Thomas was born in Pekin. And I think Nina was probably born > in Piedmont where her family lived, or Keyser ( I don't know if the hospital > was there then or not). But, the census says she was born in West Virginia. > > I haven't been able to come up with any hits online. Is the only way I can > get info is to send to the Vital Records depts. in MD and WV? > > Louann > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message