Hi all, I now have in my hands a copy of my g grandfather's death cert. yay! I sent to madison for it last september and after six months i got a notice that they couldn't find it. I called the milwaukee register of deeds at the suggestion of people from this list and they said, 'if madison doesn't have it, we don't have it'. I whined and begged and the nice lady checked. She came back on the phone about two minutes later and gave me the volume and page number. Yay! So, now I have it. It did tell me some things i didn't know before, like my g grandfather's birth date, fathers name, and cause of death. The one thing that has me going a little crazy is his place of birth. Everything i find just says 'germany'. I have the death cert, his dec of intent, and i found him in 'germans to america'. Nowhere does it give me any more info. Now, to my question...if the dec of intent just says germany is it likely that the second papers would be more specific or would that just be a waste of time and effort? The 1930 census for my grandparents says that my grandmother's father 'was born in Hesse and spoke German'. I don't think i can trust that, though, since it also says that her mother was born in wisconsin and she was actually born in Pomern and came to wisconsin when she was an infant. Any suggestions as to where I might find more definite info about his birth place would be appreciated. Thanks, friends, Karen