Have you tried to get a death certificate? My stepdad lived quite some time with emphysema. Also the next of kin can sign for a copy of his medical records. If you can find a death cert or obit on him. Try the FBI freedom of information act. http://foia.fbi.gov/ be sure to ask for his MAIN file , and mention that he is dead "Linda S. Andrews" wrote: > > I have run into some problems researching my father-in-law's background. > He died in 1983. He never would tell us anything about this past and > made up a lot of what he did say so I am not taking anything at face > value. The name we know him by was Edward Anthony Andrews III but we > later learned he was born Kenneth Raymond Burris and that he had at least > 4 social security numbers. The VA has given us some info but say that > they cannot release some of the info. According to them, one of the > aliases is not dead. I truly believe he is dead because he had a very > hard time breathing the last that we saw of him due to emphysema. We > have found some relatives from a previous marriage, but there is a big > gap in his life that we have been unable to fill in. The relatives said > they thought he had another wife before my mother-in-law. > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ -- (o o) ------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------ Mary Stickney International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists (IBSSG) Proud owner of 6 BlackSheep 1 murderer, 1 bank scammer, 1 Incestuous pedophile, 1 deserter, 1 car thief, 1 forger of government documents - see my mystery below http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=stickneys http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/ my mystery http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0058photo.html http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0057photo.html