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/RMB.2ACE/485.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am not sure where the fire was. She led me to believe the fire was at the courthouse in Memphis. She still had her birth records when she applied for Soc Sec. In fact it is her social security that has prompted her to get her birth record. She said she needs it to get her Soc Sec retirement. Other than that I guess she hasn't needed to prove when she was born. I can not say about the census I am not sure how that would work. I didn't even know one could get a copy of census info until it was 72 years old.