From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jun 8 14:41:28 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k58KfSjb013845; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:41:28 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k58KfSmc011206 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:41:28 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k58I5oFI009226 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:05:50 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k58I5oNq009225 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:05:50 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k58I1RFI009130 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:01:27 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k58Kasd3011893 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:36:54 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Thu Jun 8 14:36:54 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k58Kasjb011882 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:36:54 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao03.cox.net (centrmmtao03.cox.net [70.168.83.81]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k58KarDm008075 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:36:54 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060608203647.SKHV27431.centrmmtao03.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:36:47 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:36:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44884412.16869.2B3031FC@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <4bd.beaeb7.31b9c47d@aol.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Death Cert. Questions Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I'd like to get a death certificate on my grandmother's brother who died in Iowa 1937. His obituary gives his death date and I know where he's buried. I have been told that the counties had to send their death records to Des Moines and the State Vital Statistics has stringent regulations about who can have copies, like proof of relationship (how I can do that, I don't know!). I've been told the record will be made available only to the person's spouse, children, legal parents, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings or legal guardian (I'm a granddaughter of the deceased person's sister). Also required is a government-issued photo ID which has to be signed in front of a Notary Public. Both my grandmother and her brother were abandoned by their mother when they were very young, after their father died and they were raised by unknowns - or at least the brother who kept his birth name. Are there any other sources of information I might check to find information about this man's parents? He was married the first time in 1900 and his marriage record gave only his father's name....mother's name left blank. I don't know how he'd have known his father's name and not his mother's - his father died when he was 3 yrs. old. I suspect his mother re-married and that is the main point of my research - to find what happened to his mother. I know this person married a 2nd time but apparently it was not in the town he died so I've not found that marriage record. I have no idea where it would have been. Suggestions on where I can find more information would be appreciated. juanita