This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/966.1 Message Board Post: You can obtain a copy of the death certificate from Topeka, KS. vital records.To get a copy of the request form, just click on http://vitalrec.com/index.html Kansas didn't start registering births and deaths (at the state level) until 1911. You may want to consider writing to the cemetery first: Fairlawn Burial Park, 2401 Carey Blvd. Hutchinson, KS., 67501. BTW, What is your Grandmother's full name? (____Niswanger) Hope this answers your question....