This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZcB.2ACE/390.1 Message Board Post: Have you thought about contacting the SC Dept of Archives and History? They have death certificates on microfilm up to 1955. If his parents were known by whoever filled out the death certificate info, they will be shown there. Good Luck! Also, have you never found the parents you named in your query in the census with him listed as a child? Did he have siblings? Yvonne