This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUI.2ACIB/201.1 Message Board Post: Your 20 Aug 2002 message provided additional identifying information - that Robert was born 8 Aug 1925, and died 1 Jan 1982 (no places given). Social Security Death Index (ref. Mormon/LDS Family Search online site), lists these dates, SS#273-20-0703, issued OH, with Zip Code at time of death of 43211 (Columbus & Linden Station, Franklin Co., OH). So Robert was probably born in OH, and evidently died in Columbus, where you said he was married (no date given). This indicates that he likely lived in Columbus his entire married life, and his marriage, death, obituary, burial and other records should be available there. One of the best ways to trace him on back from 1982 would be in City Directories (e.g. Polk's), which you can likely find in the Columbus Public Library and elsewhere. 1930 Census records (microfilm images available here through my Ancestry.com subscription) list five Robert Chamberlain or Chamberlin children in OH, aged 4-5, with two of them who are very likely candidates (the other 3 are listed in Ashtabula, Wood and Lorain counties, all in the northern part of Ohio): - Robert Chamberlin, Defiance, Delaware Co., OH, p. 1A, age 5, b. OH, with parents b. OH; son of Rose Chamberlin, a widow, age 38, whose father was born in Switzerland and father in OH, with several other children listed in this widow's family. This area is just n.e. of Columbus. - Robert C. Chamberlain, age 5, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH, p. 12B, household #179/199, son of Charles P., age 32, b. OH, father b. MN, a truck driver in a lumber company; with wife Ida G., age 30 b. OH; Oscar A., son, age 12, b. OH; Letha M., dau., age 10, b. OH This information should permit you to trace these families in earlier Census & other records. Please contact me via Email if you have any questions or additional identifying information to share.