In a message dated 4/11/2005 7:42:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I can't say for sure. They may have been lost in the fire. I know that I could not find my Mothers birth records when she turned 65 and wanted to get S.S.she was born in Paris in 1902. Donald My mother was also born in Lamar County in 1902. She got a delayed birth certificate - I think in the 1950's. Phyllis