Apologies to Wayne Nichols <wayfnic@hotmail.com> who actually posted the message below on the Ancestry Board......I made an addressing error and forgot that such an error cannot be corrected the way I did it <frown>. The message should have gone through with HIS address in the TO: field. At 11/29/04 11:03 AM, you wrote: >Please reply ONLY on the Board (links below): >============================================ >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >Classification: Query >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0VB.2ACE/314.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Birth and death records were recorded in each of Ohio's counties probate >court between the years of 1867 - 1908. There were no records at the state >level. Also during this time many births and deaths never were recorded. > >Birth and death certificates were not issured until the Health Department >took over these records in December of 1908. This is when these records >became available at both the county and state level. > >I checked the death records for Darke County Probate Court and found there >was no recorded death for a Joseph Baker in 1891. I also checked the Darke >County cemetery readings for a Joseph Baker. He was not listed.