The question has been asked where death records may be found for Spanish soldiers. Mr.Raymond Woods collected all available information which could be identified for each Spanish soldier between 1769 and the end of Spanish rule about 1825; and he bequeathed that collection to the Research Department of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027. The Research Department has assured me they will provide to any early California descendant the information it has for any three soldier ancestors the descendant claims. I encourage the use of this resource. I do not believe Mr. Woods continued his research into the Mexican Period, but I may be wrong on that. Certainly, after the Americans took over, the Mexican soldiers of the Presidios were disbanded and no records were kept by Americans that I have found. Some soldiers went back to Mexico, but most just stayed where they were in CA. The particular question about a person who disappeared from records in 1847 cannot likely be answered in military records. (Military records were among those collected by Bancroft who stored them in San Francisco, where most burned after the earthquake. Some records may now be in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley in boxes not yet indexed. That is why we have so much trouble.) Granville W. Hough.