I believe that often the kin entry on the RIVR CD was the local Medical Examiner or Coroner. Many, many had the same names listed. Cheers, Ann >I threw the data CD which ran under Ancestry View in the trash a few years ago, when I found that the "kin" data was randomly corrupted. One of my direct ancestors listed were the same as those on the next data entry, a completely unrelated surname! (In that case, I did see the original entry on microfilm at RI Sec of State.) I would caution anybody to take with a grain of salt the "kin" data in that record on Ancestry.com!