In a message dated 4/24/01 9:13:36 PM Central Daylight Time, richreese@fast.net writes: Whoops! My error. The almanac was what I was thinking of - chalk it up to a "senior moment". Thanks for correcting me. Val << FYI if you expect to find death dates in a city directory, you'll not get anywhere. They were primarily marketing tools for direct mail. I will confess that I was shocked to actually find one in a Scranton directory once, one out of over 15,000 entries which I have transcribed from Scranton. None in Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, or Schuylkill county, Pottsville, Reading or Harrisburg directories either. I just hope that you meant the newspaper (WB Record) almanac transcriptions. >>