Hello Betsy, I would try working from the marriage listing for the parents names. After that I would try church records. There are some census lookups available from the Essex County Genealogy Lookup page: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/alpha/lookups.htm> Good Luck, >Have been trying to locate parents of DEBORAH DECKER b.Sept 13, 1830. >Married Daniel Harrison CONDIT July, 14, 1851 in Clinton Township, Essex NJ. >She died in 1869. > >Does anyone have access to census index for 1830, 1840, 0r 1850 that might >be willing to look for Deckers in Clinton, Fairfield or Orange? I don't have >a male name as even a guess for her father, as she and Daniel had all >daughters.... > >If this fails, what would be a good newspaper to try for an obit in Orange, >in 1869? > >Thanks in advance >Betsy Rubel >beharu@mediaone.net > > > > > >==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== >Post and view Essex County surnames at: ><http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NJ/Essex> > ------ Glenn G. Geisheimer germanic42@home.com