With reference to: "Death certificates were on the web at ancestry.com fee site. Do to concerns about identity theft they may have been removed." These records have not been removed from Ancestry.com. - YET :-) However, I have found that for some unknown reason the record does not always come up doing a name search from the home page. You can go to "Search Records" then to "Birth, Marriage, and Death" and on that page scroll down in the section titled "Search Individual Birth, Marriage and Death Databases", you will find Florida Deaths from 1936-1998 in 35 different databases. If you do not have the year you will have to search each one individually but I've found quite a lot that didn't appear on the initial search. If it is someone who died after 1962 or so, I check the SSDI first to find a year and then go directly to the correct Florida death index for that time frame. Also, some years they have not included the birth date although it was on the original microfiche of the death records. If you are not in Florida and have access to the microfiche at a local library, they can be rented from LDS. The Florida State Genealogical Society web page has a list of all the libraries in Florida with the microfiche www.rootsweb.com/~flgs/flvital.htm I am not certain if these records are under the free portion of Ancestry.com or the paid area. I am unable to tell from my home page since I subscribe to most of their offerings. Leslie