Hi Mary, Unfortunately, the family bible was lost in a house fire. According to my grgrandmother, the child did live long enough to cry but on the grave marker, there is no name, just Baby Duff. Some stories say it was a girl and others a boy. If we are to believe my grgrandmother and all her stories, the child would have been born July, 1894. I have been able to get my grandfather's birth record from Beekmantown town clerk and he was born in 1892. She supposedly had one child each year, 1892, 93, and 94. and they was one month difference also. Since I have 1892 and 93 accounted for and the months of May and June, it would make sense that the child was born in July. She said that her oldest was born in the first month of the line. That is why I have not chosen April for the month. I also have their marriage certificate. The marriage took place in July, 1891 so that rules that year out also. My great grandfather had just come to this country from Dublin, Ireland so I doubt if they "had" to get married for this first child. :-) I will write to the town clerk at Beekmantown and hope they have the record. If not, it leaves me with Morrisonville, and Plattsburgh. Oh, the father of the baby died in Dec. 1895 so again it takes me to 1894 for a birth date of the baby. Sue [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [NYCLINTO-L] Birth and death certs. for "Un-named" child >Sue, I don't think NY required birth and death registration until 1920, and >even then, my mother was born in Essex Co and her birth was not registered >until she needed a birth certificate 20 some years later. My great >grandmother had a baby who died right after birth and was buried on the farm, >nothing recorded except in the family Bible. You may be out of luck unless >there is a Bible somewhere recording the baby's birth and death. > >Mary Slack Maynard >Researching Slack, Gregory, Hopper, Bigelow/Bigalow, Nichols, Dunning, Mead, >Fish in NY and New England, Nash, Maginn/McGinn, Donahue, Vokes in NY and >Ireland, Aird and Crombie in NY and Scotland > >