This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chavez Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/1648.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Last Name CHAVEZ First Name JOSE Middle R Birth Date 03/19/1918 Mother Maiden MONJE (this could have been cut short) Father Last CHAVEZ Sex M Birth Place TEXAS Death Place LOS ANGELES(19) Death Date 04/26/1943 SSN 568-09-0430 Age 25 yrs This has some differences, but could be the right person. If you go to this link, http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi and reenter his name and death date you can order his social security application information, or you can write to the state vital statistics records for a death certificate if you decide which one is most likely. I didn't find identifiable info for his wife or either daughter, so they may still be alive? Is your mother Irma or Anibal or was there a son? You can check the childrens' birth certificates, because those give parents' names and birth places. Or you might want to post to a Los Angeles county group to see if someone there can find you a obit in 1943. Hope this helps.