Nancy, and anybody else, Here's what it says on Family Tree Maker Disk 215 about content: Vital Records: Rhode Island, 1500s-1900s This Family Archive includes images of the pages of 20 volumes of the "Rhode Island Genealogical Register" and 13 volumes of "Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series." Edited by Alden Beaman and later by his daughter Nellie, the vital records contained within these volumes were extracted from a great variety of sources including probates, local cemeteries, town, church and land records, and family histories.