This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANNAN, PACETTI Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZ.2ADI/1209.1 Message Board Post: Dear Mr McCown www.ancestry.com Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name Spouse Birthplace (County, City, State) Birth Date (Day, Month, Year) Death Place Death Date Ishmael Brannan; Beulah; Orange, Orlando, FL; 17 December 1891; 12 September 1943 Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Ishmael Brannan Spouse: Beulah Parents: John Thomas Brannan , Allivesres Teresa Pacetti Birth Place: Orange, Orlando, FL Birth Date: 17 December 1891 Death Date: 12 September 1943 Florida Death Index, 1943 Name: Ishmael I. Brannan Place: Broward Gender: M Race: W Volume: 1058 Certificate: 17327 Death Date: 1943 Florida Death Index, 1967-69 Name: Beulah L Brannan Volume: 2964 Certificate: 29917 Place: Dade Race: W Gender: F Death Date: Jun 1967 You could: Check the below-listed web site for info on how to request death certificate. You need to ask specifically, if you want the certificate to include cause of death. The "Informant" on dc is usually next-of-kin, giving address, cemetery, much info. Same web site: "Sun Search", to request obituary from Sun-Sentinel newspaper: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flbrowar/howto.html Computerization began in 1985. You could contact the Broward County Library: 954-357-7444 and "Ask a Librarian". You might consider contacting newspaper archives, and Library of the earlier home town in Orange County, FL, for obit. For a contribution of $15.00, if you cannot get the documentation you require, please contact one of the members of GSBC - Genealogical Society of Broward County Inc., P.O.Box 485, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33302. Please understand that we are a very small group, with limited ability to conduct searches on microfilm, and pretty slow turnaround. Ruth