At 9:10 AM -0500 12/6/1998, [email protected] wrote: >I believe that my 4th g-grandfather died in Surry Co in 1883. A distant >cousin has an old letter which gives the year he died, but not the place, and >I believe I have found him in the 1870 and 1880 census for Surry Co NC. Can >anyone tell me if death records were kept in the county in 1883? Unfortunately North Carolina didn't start keeping good records until the early 20th century: birth & death records (1913 sticks in my mind); *mandatory* deed registration (some time in the 1920s?). Your best bet is to look him up in the estate records at the Archives in Raleigh or in church/cemetery records. If he was a veteran, the Sons of the Confederacy might have info on him. Good luck! --- Mike Warren <http://www.netunlimited.net/~mwarren> Sine Nomine Farm, Tobaccoville, NC