Todd really has a lot--just a little work will bring results. He says his father was born in West Virginia. The Vital Registration Office in Charleston have records since 1917 of births , marriages, and deaths. anywhere in the state. Write to: Vital Registration Office (not here for DIVORCE info-see below) Division of Health State Capitol Complex Bldg. #1 Charleston WV 25305 Send money--call (304)-558-2931 for current fees. You won't get it back even if they can't find what you want. Ask them to please do a BOOK search if they can't find it on their computer(tell them that politely). . Surely you father's father is on his birth certificate. There are, on occasion, some birth certificates without a father. That telephone number is probably a recorded message with a lot of other good information. If you go to the SSDI and find the SS number of any of your relatives alive after 1934 , . you can then apply for a copy of their SS application and record,--full of information.. Death certificates sometimes show the names of fathers and mothers if the infomant at the time of death knew that information. Were any of your relatives in a WAR? Plenty of information on SERVICE RECORDS, readily available from National Archives back to the Revolutionary War. Divorce info in WV must come from the Clerk of the Chancery Court , Chancery Side, in the county where the divorce was granted.. . Sandy Hunt in Lubbock