This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HY.2ADE/1716.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Denise, Thanks again for your help here. Yes that is certainly the same man. I did find a second wife Maud, and their respective death indexes.......I have already ordered his DC, but as you say, there seems to be a huge waiting list no matter where you try. Unbelievable, as other parts of the world are so much ahead in their genealogy services. I expected the US to be way out ahead. Nevermind, I shall just have to wait in the cue with everyone else. I thought of the Social Security Application, but decided to wait until I have the DC. My searching from here, Australia, seems to be indicating he was adopted at birth......but even in NZ there is no mention of his birth registration as Cecil Henry Thompson or Bird. All a mystery, every turn brings up a new question. Cheers and thanks again, Robyn