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/hFB.2ACE/1666.1 Message Board Post: Not related - Is this your relative - ?? Name: Jennie Long Age in 1910: 83 Estimated birth year: abt 1827 Home in 1910: Delhi Twp, Ingham, Michigan Page: 40B; Enumeration District: 54 I don't know why everyone assumes that an obit. was published for a family member beginning in 1850 thru 1930. Obit's cost money and every family did not have the money to have an obit. to published. You must think as though you lived in that selected time-period. The best idea I can suggest would be - purchase the death cert. from the county = not from the state. MICH. charges - $26.00 for a death cert.