In a message dated 10/9/2006 3:02:47 PM Central Daylight Time, virgpat@usfamily.net writes: Thank you so much for the site. I checked it out but it was a dead end. Too bad, these ancesters made it so hard for us to find them! The easiest way to remember the MN sites are _www.mnhs.org/bci_ (http://www.mnhs.org/bci) _www.mnhs.org/dci_ (http://www.mnhs.org/dci) BCI -- birth cert index DCI -- death cert index They have made them very easy to remember so it is easy to go back at any time you want. But remember, N/A only means that HEADING in not applicable for the INDEX made for that particular time period, or the information for that heading was not indexed on that particular index, not that the info is not on the original document. Annie in Minnesota