In a message dated 10/9/2006 3:29:53 PM Central Daylight Time, co_sandy@msn.com writes: It is still often worth getting the document. N/A doesn't always mean there is no birth information on the record. Only that for one of several reasons it was not transcribed. I have had a few just like that and was glad I wrote for the record anyway. Just a thought. Sandy Sandy is correct. All the N/A means is that for that time period that information was not INDEXED, it does not mean that it is not there. The newer the indexes the more info that is placed on them to help identify the correct info, so do not pass up something that shows in the index as N/A, just realize that that * index heading* was not applicable for an index made up in that time period. Annie in Minnesota