Try to get a Death Certificate. Sometimes it will give the place of birth and the parents names of the deceased. It depends on who gave the information and how much they knew. An Obit. is good too, but that also depends on who gave the information and how much they knew. If the information Nancy sent you is correct, try for a Birth Certificate. If she died at the age of 87, she might have drawn S.S. If she did, they had to have proof of birth. My dad had a S.S. # all his life but when he retired, he didn't have a birth certificate but his mother had recorded it in the Family Bible. He always thought that he was born in 1914, but the Bible recorded it as 1913 so he retired a year later than he intended. The County made him a Birth Certificate from the Bible Records. A Family Bible Record is usually taken over any other. Also if she worked and paid S.S. you can get a form from the S.S. Office that list every employer she had in her lifetime that she paid S.S. through. This will cost. It's not much, just $4. or so on someone else. You can get your own list of employers at no charge. This will help you track someone's moves. You are just a beginning Genealogist and I feel for you but if you persue this, you will have been bitten by the bug and I doubt that any of us can ever lay this down. We will all be twiddling our pens in the hereafter. Martha