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/XZ.2ADI/1834.2 Message Board Post: Did you look on the site you were referred to. There is a Joseph Hicks but you need to be sure it is the one you want. With that information you can use interlibrary loan to get the obituary. When you give the library the excat article you are looking for they have always come through for me. They will not due to the time invloved do you research for you however. Contact YOUR library's interlibrary loan department and go through then to get it from Hillsborough library for free. Remember you MUSt be exact with your information. This is from the Trails index. It is Feb 10 but it close to your date. Hicks, Joseph F.; 59; 1970 Publisher: Tampa Tribune (microfilm) Date: 1970 2 10 >From the Florida death index: Name: Joseph Francis Hicks Death Date: 25 Jan 1970 County of Death: Hillsborough State of Death: Florida Age at Death: 59 Race: White Birth Date: 15 May 1910 Page: F.N.-p.A19 If you try this an get no response please post again with the exact messase you sent to them and I will go check on it to see why it was not fulfilled. Also give the library you sent the request from . Your local library will be able to give you a copy of the request.