Hello Clearfield list, The following is the original message that I posted, RE: Mike Gillotte; 1877-1944' Unfortunately, the first paragraph of my message did not appear when received from the list. My original as sent, can be seen as the first message below. I have never seen this happen before. Nan This is the exact message that I posted: From:nangelbuddy@comcast.net [Add to Address Book] To:paclearf@rootsweb.com Subject:RE: Mike Gillotte; 1877-1944 Date:Monday, October 15, 2007 8:35:38 PM [View Source] Hi Sarah, I would write to my state representatives, explaining the situation regarding your ID addresses. Ask them to write to the archives for you requesting the document. You are military, clearly in service to your country. I don't see why the assistance would not be available for you. Explain your situation, that you are in need of Rose's birth certificate and why you want it, genealogy. Send a copy of your IDs. It might be best to also include payment to the archives with your request to the representative. I have written to my representatives in the past, several times. They have staff in the state and local offices that definitely assisted me. The rep assigned my request to his staff. The reply with the data that I requested was sent to his office and he sent it on to me. Good luck, let us know the result. Nan ---------------original message------------- Everyone, I’m trying to find some information for Mike Gillotte (mostly his parents names), and am hoping some of you may be able to give me some ideas on some further steps I can take. Mike (Michele) Gillotte Born 18 Dec 1877 in Italy Immigrated to US appox 1899 Married Rose Vallella appox 1898 Naturalization in 1907 Worked as a coalminer and lived in Morrisdale, Clearfield Co, PA Had children: Rose (1903); Teresa (1904); John (1905); Frank (1908); Sara (1913), Caroline (1915), Genevieve, aka “Janelle”, (1918), Virginia (1922) The whole family attended St Agnes Catholic Church in Morrisdale, PA, and that is where he is buried. The information on his immigration is sketchy at best, and I believe he got married to Rose in the US. I do have the 1930, 1920 and 1910 census, but cannot find anything for 1900. I have his death certificate. I have written to both Clearfield and Centre county looking for his marriage certificate and they can find no record. I tried writing to the PA State Archives to get a birth cert for Rose (daughter). I thought that since she was the first born, perhaps they were living in a different county back then, and her birth certificate may give me that. But, the State Archives will not send it to me. They require two forms of ID, and since I am military, my drivers license address and mailing/check address do not match. I have an ancestry.com account, but the local paper available online (Clearfield Progress) does not cover the year he died (for an obit) and I couldn’t find any other references to him in the paper. If anyone has any ideas on additional steps I could take, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Sara MY POSTING AS RECEIVED from the list: From:nangelbuddy@comcast.net [Add to Address Book] To:paclearf@rootsweb.com Subject:Re: [PACLEARF] Mike Gillotte; 1877-1944 Date:Monday, October 15, 2007 8:36:19 PM [View Source] I have written to my representatives in the past, several times. They have staff in the state and local offices that definitely assisted me. The rep assigned my request to his staff. The reply with the data that I requested was sent to his office and he sent it on to me. Good luck, let us know the result. Nan ---------------original message-------------