If one were sufficiently naive, one might think that when one is clutching an official death certificate with the name of the deceased, his age, his parents, and his wife's name, (and a photo of the tombstone that agrees with the dates) one might also find him on one of the 5 census preceding his death. > Cheryl Singhals <[email protected]> Sorry, I just had to comment. I had a g-grandfather who last appeared in the 1880 census but I found his death certificate showing he died in 1937. Turns out he had left his family and apparently went into hiding. [email protected]