Hard to say this without sounding condescending, but use the soundex to cover a wider area of possibilities. I found this for Catherine in the death index on scotlandspeople - 1858 MCPHAILL CATHERINE MCGOUGAN MCNEILL F 64 CAMPBELTOWN /ARGYLL 507/00 0144 Note that using the soundex option supplied a death where the surname was spelled with two "l"s. -- Jo-Ann Croft