Hi Elizabeth, Sorry to hear about your challenges. Hang there. I have copies of their 1921 div in Middlesex Co, MA which indicated he was then engaged in the service of Navy at Hampton Roads, VA. Latest is that he is on the 1930 Cen in Silver Springs, Wyoming Co, NY on RR St, 44 yrs, single, boarder, RR laborer, and filed for his SS in 1937 from same add but indicated that he was unemployed [a lot of people were in 1937!] and we know nothing of his whereabouts thereafter, nothing! I now have his SSN and his Navy Service #. It has been reported that a Frank COAKLEY is on the 1953 Cambridge, Middlesex Co, MA Death Index 34/274 and I wrote Jan 20 to the City Clerk to obtain copies. There were several other Frank COAKLEYs there in that era, so who knows?? I have been told that there are no Silver Springs City Directories for this era, no NY State Cen after 1925 which did not show Frank, and that he is not in the local Silver Springs, NY Cemeteries. I have a 2 yr req out to obtain his Navy Service Records. They confirmed a file but they can't find [email protected]$%&!. I also wrote 1/23 to the RR Retirement board in Chicago. I have searched all Middlesex Co, MA estate rec. I have searched Catholic Ch rec from Watertown to Wayland in Middlesex Co, MA where his families previously resided. I have not searched any death rec anywhere after 1937. I have not searched for any obits. The Wyoming Co, NY Historian Stanley Rutherford is presently searching Wyoming Co rec. Thanks Stanley! I have searched the SS Death Index without finding any possibilities. I need to search the MA & NY m rec after 1920 to see if he had other marriages. I need to search the MA & NY death Indexes after 1937. I need to search the Catholic Ch rec for the Silver Springs area of NY. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks again, I appreciate your efforts very much and understand your current handicaps. Hang in there. Best, Hal McCawley Elizabeth Clinton wrote: >Hello Hal, > >I'm recovering from an accident and have quite a long list of lookups. >Unfortunately, state budget cuts have caused the state vital statistics >office to be scaled back in hours and services. They will only pull records >a few times per day (at their discretions) and one is limited to a half >dozen requests. This aside, I will, health willing, making a run in the next >few weeks. Due to the new restrictions, however, I can't guage how much I >can get accomplished. I'm assuming that you have the divorce records. Do >you think that FWC had a will? (Probate records are a bit easier for me to >access.) Are you assuming that his status as Married in the 1920 refererence >indicates a subsequent marriage? There may be a death index by name in the >Cambridge public library, I can call them to find out if there is any death >notice or obituary. Let me know your thoughts. > >Elizabeth > > >