In a message dated 9/20/2009 6:41:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bgband@cinci.rr.com writes: It should be on microfilm at the main branch of the library, downtown Cincinnati. You could also search Ancestry.com to see if it comes up in their US obitiuary collection. ========================================== I checked the Ohio Death Certificates Online and there is no listing of a Russell Crowe who died in Ohio in June 1977. Since the SS Death Index isn't showing his last place of residence, could he have died someplace else? Marilyn