I pass along the following information for those of you who do not yet subscribe to ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS and who might be looking for relatives born in California, 1905-1995, or died, 1940-1997. I also have added some of my own suggestions on searching. To subscribe for free send e-mail to: rootsweb-review-subscribe@rootsweb.com ******** Extract from RootsWeb Review, Vol. 3, No. 22 [yesterday] NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB NEW DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB. Four new free and fully searchable databases were added to RootsWeb in the past week. o CALIFORNIA BIRTH INDEX (1905-1995) has 24,596,236 public records with 984,961 surnames http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search.cgi o CALIFORNIA DEATH INDEX (1940-1995) contains 9,366,786 public records with 498,701 surnames http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi Ross's note: If you put in too much information you may not get a match because the death certificate may not have all the information you know, like mother's maiden name, etc. So you may have to leave some information blank in order to find the record. You may put both given names or one or none. If you give only one name it will give you the records where that name is a first name or a middle name, but watch out for nicknames. If EXACT match doesn't work use Soundex, etc. I have not been able to find a record for a relative who died in California in 1991 according to SSDI index. o LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA CEMETERY LISTINGS. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/IA/Louisa/ o KENTUCKY CIVIL WAR ROSTERS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/rosters/ ******** Ross Cameron