Bob, No, the time limitation for death records is 50 years, as far as I understand it. That's why the puzzle at not finding a 1934 record. John On [2007-06-04 at 08:05pm] bob gillis <robertgillis@verizon.net> wrote: > John Cordes wrote: > > snip > > > > I still do not find the death in the online database. I > > gathered this morning, in conversation with a government > > archivist at NSARM, that there are three main reasons why > > something like this death might not be found in the online > > database: > > > > 1) some very bad indexing / transcription error > > > > 2) for some unknown reason it simply got missed in the > > indexing process > > > > 3) the information was never sent in and so was not recorded > > in the government registers in the first place > > 4) AFAIK, Death records resumed in 1908 and they will not be on > line for 100 years, or 2008. 1936 death records will be released in > 2036.