To Listers searching Death Records, I second Billye D. Jackson's comments about elusive birth and death records, particularly in Victoria Co. I wanted to join a lineage society and needed death records of Victoria residents to document dates and relationships. I discussed one of the problems with my uncle while we were in the Victoria Co. courthouse. He pulled open a drawer in the courthouse and came up with his mother's death record. She had died when he was born ca 1905. At a later date, my cousin took me back to the courthouse to find our common great-grandfather's and great-grandmother's death record--no dice, although we found another certificate which we were not expecting to find. We were dispatched to the City Hall--there the death records were. Also, in the early 1900s few births were recorded. I wrote to the TX Bureau of Vital Records (or whatever it is now called) and came up with delayed (note that word) birth certificates filed in the 1940s, although both persons were born in 1900. Seems that everyone got these in the 1940s to file for Social Security (or in the case of a male, perhaps to prove he was too old for WW II draft!!!) Death certificates and birth records, like naturalization records, seem to be where you can find them--in my experience. And don't assume that all persons who resided in Victoria Co. died there. San Antonio, TX was a great (no, that's not the adjective I should use) place of death for many persons as far south as the Rio Grande River--why--because it was/is a huge medical center. Wanda Payne Hoad's transcriptions of cemeteries (at least of Evergreen) is also a wonderful help!!! Well, enough of this. This is based on my personal genealogical experience, stemming from prowling courthouses in Southwest Texas!!! E.W.Wallace whose ancestors were in Victoria ca 1836 on!!!