This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beatty/Embry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YAB.2ACI/2736.2 Message Board Post: Try the Illinois State Death Index Site. I put in Beatty and selected McLean Co from the drop down because this is where I live. There is a Josie Beatty died in 1942 on the Index. It tells where to send for death certificates if this is your Josie Embry Beatty.