In a message dated 08/15/2006 4:06:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, SOG-UK-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: The Surname Document Collection is arranged A-Z by surname and consists of: Original documents such as birth, marriage and death certificates, deeds, wills, marriage licences and settlements, apprenticeship indentures, letters etc Manuscript and typescript transcripts of wills, parish register entries etc, family trees and other research notes OK, this is an index of surnames for which there are documents, but how does one determine just what documents are available for a given surname? Terence