Looking at the website that Mary included in her posting, there is an 'ONLINE RECORD SEARCH' option listed on the left side. Do this before sending any requests by mail. _https://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/5jd/onondaga/surrogate/contact.shtml_ (https://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/5jd/onondaga/surrogate/contact.shtml) You will have to configure your Firewall to allow the 'PUBLIC' part and after you 'REGISTER' & 'DOWNLOAD' the the thing they have there, you get a new web address to use for their website., Then you (hopefully) will be able to search and print out (hopefully) what you are looking for. (Key word from me is HOPEFULLY. I used to be able to access their records from home, but have not been able to for quite a while, even with instructions that they have given to me.... ;-( This is still a work in progress, not all of their records are online yet. I do hope I didn't confuse you. Reconfigure your security stuff to allow the website to run, then they will send you a second website address to go to after you have registered and downloaded their program to your computer that will allow you to search the records that they have put online currently. (A computer literate person will be able to explain all of this better than I can!) And as Dick stated in his posting... check the Mormon Church records (_www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) ) for Microfilmed Records. That also will be much less expensive than sending the request to them by mail. Good luck Anne ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.