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/WUB.2ACI/1265.1.1 Message Board Post: Joel, thanks for your reply. I had posted that message several years ago and am still having no luck getting information on John Francis Hand. I have even check the Social Security Death Index and nothing is listed there. I am running out of ideas and places to search. --- Very discouraging.