<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18882"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">What I do in that case is take the year of the last known 'sighting' and state 'died after dateX'.  Not very satisfactory but at least that provides a starting point for future searches of death date information.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Given their advanced ages in 1870, you could add a note to the 'after 1830' death date, mentioning the fact that there are *known* entries for them after 1830, and that they don't appear in the 1840 census or following censuses (which suggests a range of years for date of death, without setting it in stone, no pun intended).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Larry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Larry Boswell BA, PLCGS<BR><A href="http://www.TheBackstairs.com">www.TheBackstairs.com</A><BR><A href="http://thebackstairs.com/blog/">http://thebackstairs.com/blog/</A><BR>"Historical & Genealogical Research Services"<BR>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">laboswell@rogers.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=courthouseresearcher@gmail.com href="mailto:courthouseresearcher@gmail.com">MFP</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:26 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [APG Public List] How to handle date of death</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>In Bladen County, NC, both James WEST and his wife were enumerated on the census of 1830 as being between 70 and 80 years of age.  <BR>There are no known tax records for that period in Bladen County history. No further record of this James WEST has been found in Bladen County, NC. It is supposed he died sometime around 1830. Known cemetery records have been searched, to no avail. <BR><BR>Extensive searches of census, tax and probate records in NC, SC, GA, TN and AL for that particular James WEST have been done, finding nothing pertaining to him.  <BR><BR>How do I write up this information when doing an article/autobiography on this James WEST? What do I use as his date of death?<BR><BR>I have searched google quite unsuccessfuly in efforts to obtain answer to my question. <BR><BR>TIA<BR><BR>Mag<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>