You might try cemetery records and look under your parents' surname for a stillborn baby. There's a collection of cemetery transcriptions for Lawrence County available via the Family History Center. http://www.familysearch.org - Heather On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Dan Buehler wrote: > I was at a reunion in Monett last week and found out from one of my older cousins that my parent's first child either died at birth or was a late term miscarriage. My parents never mentioned this at all so I had no idea. All these years I thought I had only brothers but I actually had (or almost had) an older sister. To sum it up, I was somewhat surprised. > > Anyway, my questions for the group are this: How would I go about looking for information for this? Were any records kept for still births? Miscarriages? I don't know how to attack this one so any help is appreciated. > > All I know is that this would have occurred between 1923 and 1928 in either Lawrence County, North Barry County or Greene County. > > Thanks. > > Dan > Way down here in hot, muggy and rainy Florida. > > > ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > Looking for a town, postoffice, cemetery, creek, etc. > Try the mapping services at USGS GNIS. > http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >