This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALSH, JOHNSON, ANDERSON, TAYLOR, VIK... Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IFB.2ACE/1092.2.2 Message Board Post: Yes! My grandmother's birth certificate was burned in a fire, I believe in an orphanage there in Alpena, MI. It's what I was told all of my life whist growing up. And it's the reason why my maternal grandmother always celebrated her birthday on the 5th and 15th of November. She was born in or about 1903. Best Wishes, Elizabeth :D