Hi Kathy, Any chance you can obtain a death certificate for your gr grandfather from Philadelphia? It may state his parents' names if they were known by the informant...... this way his parents could more easily be found in census records. Cheers, Rick MacNeil kathy hamby wrote: > hello i am trying to find a birth place for my gr,grandfather ALLAN > MCDONALD (ALLEN MACDONALD) born 1850 in Canada died Sep 2, 1895 in Phila > Nova Scotia. > thank you kathy >