This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gallagher, Grund, Tegyi, Belmont, Cardinal, Cardinale. Lacovara,Frey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1320.5 Message Board Post: All you have to say when requesting a death certificate is that the person is your aunt, great aunt or whatever. I have obtained death certificates when I definitely was not a direct descendant.