Hi Gus, A great big "Thank You" for posting the Death Records and the St. Mary's Church death records for Kreckel, Heiberger and Lechner. It was very gracious of you to take the time to type in that information, especially since you only had one Kreckel connection. It will help me a lot! As to the spelling of Friendl, or Friendel or Friedl...the same as Kreckel, Kreckle, Kreakel and Krickel and other various spellings of the same name: you just have to take all the records and find the common threads that tie the family together. When my g. grandparents got married the marriage license has Wilhelm Kregel but when William and Mary Core Kreckel had my grandmother, her baptismal certificate has the surname spelled as Kreckle, as does her certificate of nursing...but she herself spelled the last name as Kreckel...her brother spelled it as Krackel and that was just in my direct line. We can not get hung up on the spelling of names but we must try to make correct connections. To me it is just one great big puzzle, waiting for someone to put it together and I notice the more information I gather the more questions I have! I guess that is what make genealogy so enjoyable....you never know what may be right around the corner. As to mistakes in Death records...I have found from collection the Death Records from County Courthouses and PA Vital Records alike that the info is only as good as the person giving the information. ie...I have death records where the person giving the information, when asked the father's name will give their father's name instead of the deceased's father's name....my grandfather when asked for the spouse's name gave his mother's name even though she had died when he was 7 years old and his father had remarried and had seven more children. So we just try to figure out the right answers and then go on from there. Thanks again, Gus for your kind contribution to the list. Linda -- Linda Gallentine, Fayette Co., PA Researching: Franklin, Kollar, Fleichman, Kregel (Kreckel), Core, Grattan, Murphy, Barthen, McGinnis, Gallentine