>From: "LIBBY GRIMM" <grimml@verizon.net> > I have a Division of Vital Records, 1400 W. Spring Garden St. Room 1009, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4090 of birth & death records for Philadelphia. You can get more information by going to the website on PA Vital Records. Just a heads-up to the marvelous Philadelphia early death records to be found on familysearch.org: €Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915 1,556,855 records! €Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951 1,830,468 records! The indexes are searchable immediately, but if you'd like to see the actual image of the record, you will have to register (no cost!) and create a couple names for yourself and a password to access the actual image. For years we've had in family records: this receipt: "Bill/Invoice: Philadelphia, July 25, 1854, COFFINS READY MADE HEARSES AND CARRIAGES ALWAYS IN READINESS. J GIBBONS, PRINT. PHILAD Mr. Cornelius Richmond for Child: To Wm Stuard, Dr. // Undertaker, No. 364 Coates Street, between 9th and 10th. - For Walnut Coffin Lined flanel & use 1 Carriages to Saint George 4 00 Need Payment in Full Wm. Stuard" But we had -and could find- no other information on this probable child of my RICHMOND g-g-grandparents. When these Philadelphia Death Certificates came online, I found this record, on the image of a scrap of paper!.... Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915: File 004009846, Image 779 of 1255; located on beta.familysearch.org; accessed by cjmt 7 Nov 2010: ³David M. Richmond. Philadelphia, July 23d 1854 // residing at No. ‹ 21st street // died this day of Tabes Mesenterica aged 7 months. // Color: White // [signed] J. N. [Taylor ? Layton ?] M. D.² LDS Film #1927895; Digital Folder Number 4009846; Image #981 [interesting that this number is different from identified image # at top of image; see above] And further information via google: Tabes Mesenterica Tuberculosis of lymph glands inside the abdomen. An illness of children caused by drinking milk from cows infected with tuberculosis. Now uncommon as milk is pasteurised Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib Got Philadelphia? Enjoy! Cari Thomas