This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.tompkins/5016.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Can anyone give me the date that Tompkins county started keeping death records? I need to find out when Lydia Cheney died, I know that she was born in NY June 21, 1822 and that she married Caleb Greenfield Aug 23 1842. I have a copy of the 1850 Tompkins county, Dryden, census and Caleb has a wife named Martha Wedge, so I think Lydia must have died before 1850 and Caleb remarried. Any help would be appreciated