Hi Linda, I know what you are saying. I only think that there are records because both the baby and my great grandfather were buried in the West Plattsburgh Union Cemetery in Morrisonville. Since that is not a private cemetery, I would think there would be a document. There was one on my great grandfather and he died about 6 months after the baby. I am going to have to write and get the cemetery entries for all the Roberts though as they are a little further back in time and harder to get any documents on and I don't know which churches they attended. Just that they were Protestant. That leaves a wide open door. It seems they usually attended whatever church was the closest to home. They had no real preference of one denomination over another from what I have found so far. Thank-you for your suggestions and you have a Happy New Year and I hope all your brick walls fall by the wayside this coming year. Sue [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [NYCLINTO-L] Birth and death certs. for "Un-named" child >Birth and death certificates, even in 1895, simply didn't exist in some areas >of Clinton County even though they were "required" by the State of New York. >For example, my great great grandmother, Lydia Butler Guynup, died in 1894 >and no death certificate could be found at either the state or town levels. >I've found far more pre-1900 birth and death information in the PLATTSBURGH >REPUBLICAN, or in church records, than in the state or various town files. > >Many cemeteries were actually on family land (at least two that I know of in >my own family) so there was no reason to involve the authorities, especially >in the case of infant deaths. > >Linda Guynup Dewey > >