Re: Noble Austin Suggestions: 1) I would email the library in Piedmont, Missouri, and ask them for look up in local newspaper for JAN 1984 for his obituary. THERE MAY BE A SMALL FEE. FYI, Piedmont, MO, is located in WAYNE CO MO. There is an email contact on the LIBRARY's website, see below. His obituary may tell you who his father was and other things about him. WEBSITE OF PIEDMONT LIBRARY, PIEDMONT, WAYNE CO MO http://piedmont.lib.mo.us/ 2) There are cemetery books for Wayne Co. MO, I would also ask Piedmont Library to check for cemetery where he was buried. 3) Go to website of Wayne Co. MO on www.rootsweb.com, post message, look up in cemetery books for NOBLE AUSTIN. 4) Check for funeral homes in Piedmont, Wayne Co. MO. Can either email contact Piedmont Library and ask or post message on www.rootsweb.com, message board of Wayne Co. MO for lookup Or go to www.switchboard.com, search for funeral homes, Piedmont, MO..................THEN search on www.google.com to see if any of the funeral homes have websites. FUNERAL RECORDS often tell who parents were of person who died and where they were born. 5) Once you know where he was born, search census records, starting with 1930, then go backwards. 6) Obtain death certificate, since he died in WAYNE CO MO, you can find details on where to write by visiting: www.usgenweb.org click Missouri click county list click Wayne County it tells where to write Cost to get death certificate is usually $10-$15 Death certificate may tell his parents and where they were born 7) Since he was listed on the social security death index, write for a copy of his social security application. Fee last time I wrote was around $29.00. Social Security applications often give names of parents and where born. Search for your relative on www.rootsweb.com, social security, can print form letter right from that site. 8) If new to genealogy, visit either www.familysearch.org or www.rootsweb.com and read how to get started in genealogy. The information will really help you. Be sure to document with sources what you find on your ancestors. FROM YOUR EMAILS to TNHENDER-L, rootsweb.com My grandfather was born 2-19-1906 and passed away in Jan of 1984.  I am not sure where he was born.  He was buried in Piedmont MO.  His father, however, was named Charles, and I don't have any info on him.  He had a brother named Charles also.  I do know that he had a lot of brothers, seven I think, and they all split and none of the family knew where the other brothers had settled. and I'm searching for anyone related to Noble Austin of Missouri.  This was my grandfather, and I cannot trace any further back because I know nothing else.  However, my father's name was Charles, and his brother Richard (now lives in TX), and I know both were named after my grandfather's ancestors. Does anyone have Noble in their FTM or anything?