>>I have discovered that nearly all the Deaths reported in the Hunterdon >>Republican newspaper that occurred from January 1, 1895 until June 30, >>1895 were recorded as '1894' in the Listings on Ancestry.com. << I have found the same problem with records on familysearch.com. There is actually an explanation for this. The records were not filed or filmed on a Jan-Dec yearly basis during this time period. If you look at the films, you will see that the recording year ran midyear of one year to midyear of the following year - that is to say, for example, Jun 1888 to May 1889. There were several variations - I've seen Jun - May, July - Jun and also May to April. I have no idea why they did this, but the problem now is that someone reading, and transcribing the records is looking at the top line of the page and stops as soon as they see the beginning of the date. So the film might be for June 1888-May 1889, and all the transcriber sees is 1888 and assumes everything on the film is 1888. This confusion is compounded by the fact that the change of year isn't always recorded in the date column. I guess it was assumed that anyone using the records already knows the system.