Hi List, Just wondering if anyone has any ideas where I might find a death certificate. It is for Dorethea Group who died March 1, 1906 in Van Buren/ Stiles, NY. She was buried in Riverview Cemetary, Baldwinsville. The Funeral service was conducted by Rev. George Lyman Ford of the First Baptist Church. I've tried Syracuse and NYS and neither have a record of her death. Is there somewhere else it may have been recorded and for some reason not reported to NYS? Thanks for any ideas, Gretchen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

I have had this happen to me once also. I am working on a local history project in which at least 50 men died in 1918 and although I have the official death certificates of 48 of them, thee are two in which neither the state, nor the town of Onondaga (where they died), have any record of them. I, too, know where they are buried and have photographs of the gravestones. Most importantly though, I have an unofficial death certificate which I was able to retrieve from the Medical Examiner's office in Syracuse. The 50 died as a result of the same accident and as such were all contained together in a large file in the ME's office. So, you might give the ME's office a try on the off chance that they may have something. You might also try to see if the cemetery records are extant to see if they have either a copy of the death certificate or burial records which often contain a good deal of information. And also try the Church to see if they have any records. If the church is defunct, see what the town historian may have to say about where the records may be. Good luck. Deb Zimmerman