This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1583.2 Message Board Post: Is Michael your husband, his father or his grandfather? What is the name of the person for whom you are trying to get the death cert? It is probably easier to find the target person in the census if you know (or can approximate) their year of birth, spouse and children's names and/or where they lived in 1920 and 1930. If you have any of that info, a quick search of the census index should turn up the right person.