A passing note or so. Rootsweb is having problems with some of the boards where people (including myself) aren't able to make posts to certain lists. They are working on the problem. Secondly - batten down the hatches on some of the weather crossing the country - storms and snow and ice, stay warm and safe! Lastly, a note on these vital statistiacs, both births and deaths I've been posting on Hart Co (and other counties in the past). Are they the Gospel truth? No .... they have errors. 1 - the physicians turned in the list of births and deaths annually to the county clerk's office, on tiny pieces of paper as I have explained before. They were supposed to record the event and the date as the occasion occured. Many doctors forgot - some papers likely got lost. They had to reconstruct who they had attended during the year and sometimes took a guess at the spellings and dates. 2 - many physicians did not know the families they were attending. They would ask other family members the information about the name, where they were born, parents' names, their place of birth, etc. As happens sometimes, the information given was incorrect. 3 - When the doctor turned in the papers to the County Clerk, he had to record it in those big books we just love (not). The Clerk had to read the doctor's handwriting. Enough said (sorry!). 4 - Then comes people like you and I who transcribe what the clerk wrote who had transcribed what the doctor had written - taken from the older microfilm most of the time with all its blears, ink stains, etc. I have mentioned before that one doctor in one KY county might not have kept good records as all of his births and deaths for the year all occurred on the 1st or 15th of the month. He must have been exhausted! So these vital statistics, like any record, need to be taken under advisement to be proved or disproved by other documents. If we can find no other supporting documents, we can use these dates but know that we weren't there to see the event so it could be wrong. Take care - Sandi SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/