Hi Joey, >Recent subscriber seeking info re: "Langford Lodge" which is supposed to >be in Northern Ireland. In November, 1943, my grandfather was killed there, >and eventually buried at Cambridge, England. Have you checked the newspapers? I haven't researched to see if LDS has filmed Belfast newspapers of this period. It is easy to do so. Go to www.familysearch.org Click on "Custom Search". CLick on "Catelog" Select search for Place. Then you must do several searches since you do not know how the indexes indexed it. I'd search British Isles-Ireland Ireland and Belfast If not, I have the email addresses of several professionals in Ulster. As for registration, LDS has filmed the indexes and the certificates for Irish civil registration up into the mid 1950's. The indexes for post 1865 (when all events, irregardless of religion, were registered for all the population except for those who cleverly evaded the government and thus foiled their descendents in a search for them) tend to be in many smaller LDS Family History Centers. The one 5 miles up the road from me, for instance, has all the indexes between 1865 and 1900. You order the indexes. You find your man in the indexes. You then order the film with the actual record on it. All of this requires a bit of knowledge to do without screwing it up and ordering the wrong film. I might also add the indexes are quarterly and you may not find your ancestor in the quarter you think if the event was either registered late or the records were sent a wee bit late into the registration offices from the local district. So a fella born presumedly in December, might appear in the indexes of Q1 of the next year. All of this is far easier to do in the USA than to do on the island of Ireland -- either country -- because the facilities there get quite busy and are not designed to accomodate the traffic. So do it in the USA before you go to Ireland. You can then get more info on the family in the 1901 census -- but you will need the address of the family to do that. You can do that in the USA, though it helps to have experience with these records. So read your way, at a minimum, through www.genuki.org.uk and print out the LDS guides at www.familysearch.org. If you decide to hire someone to do it, you can hire someone in the USA and not have to get involved in currency exchange -- but make sure the person knows Irish genealogy. (The records differ significantly from Ohio) Best of luck! Linda Merle He was a civilian accessory mechanic working for Lockheed Overseas Corporation, and was struck by a government vehicle on his way back to his post. I would like to find a death certificate for him if possible, and learn something about Langford Lodge.