This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SELLERS/MOTT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JWGBAEB/1314.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Ok, since you live in Lawrence, it should be easy to get newspaper obits. Check with the cemetery or funeral parlor to get the their records. Order copies of their death certs.You can also order their Social Security applications. Parents should be listed for Frank and Katie Mae on those. I think you can order a genealogy copy of your mother's birth cert. if you don't have that. Not sure when Ark started with those. The one most important thing in doing family history is document/document/document. Your library does offer Heritage Quest. That has census records among other things and is free.