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/ZVC.2ACE/3990.1 Message Board Post: Robert, if your great-grandparents were living in Bad Bederkesa when your great-grandmother drowned, the Registry Office (Standesamt) in Bad Bederkesa will have her death record on file, which should give you her birthplace. The Standesamt in Bad Bederkesa is headed by a woman by the name of Wera Stüve. I will give you her e-mail address. Be sure to make the subject line of your e-mail "Sterbeurkunde", German for "death record", so that Frau Stüve immediately knows what it's about, but if you want, you can type the body of the e-mail in English. w.stueve@sg-bederkesa.de (Remember, this is August, when people are away, in case you don't hear back from her right away.) Robert