This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1766.1 Message Board Post: Steven wrote, "I am looking for an obit for Chester Thompson,passed away in the fall of 1970" Steven, looking for an obit published "in the fall of 1970" would require reviewing up to 100 issues of the newspaper. I checked the Social Security Death Index and find no Chester THOMPSON who died in Iowa in 1970. You might look online for the phone number of the Black Hawk county vital records office, and ask them to check for his death.