Barbara Nellesen wrote: >A correction please >I did know that deaths started 1855...don't ask me why my brain somehow >temporarily forget this important fact > > It's not quite as bad as that! - there are pre-1855 death records. They are patchy (in both availability and detail) and harder to find. But if you haven't already checked the Burials Index at ANESFHS, you probably should. Gavin Bell