This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JB.2ACE/518.1 Message Board Post: Most families in Cape Girardeau had their children baptized shortly after birth - therefore their birth was recorded in church records. If you will send me the name of the child and their parent's names that you are researching I will try and see what I can locate. You may contact me at my home computer. Blessings, Ruth at kastenre@ldd.net