> Dear Marcia, > > Have you checked with the County Courthouse or the Town Hall where your > father was born? The state of Texas does NOT have my mothers birth > certificate (born 1920) but the Town Hall did have it, and that is what > solved her Social Security application problems. > > Good luck, > Denise I had not thot of that...however , Daddy was born, according to what he told us, and what our Uncles told us, in a covered wagon. I do know that Kingston, now a ghosttown, is what he considered his 'home town', but they were comeing back from I believe Portales, New Mexico. I have not been able to prove that, yet I have no reason to not feel he was right. As I had said, when I was born in 1955, My Dad was already about 65....and that is prob. wrong. We have learned that Daddy may have fudged about his age on he and Mothers wedding certificate. My Mother was quite a bit younger than Daddy. If I could locate anything with a date on the first marraige, between J.R. Moore (Daddy ) and Maude Warnike, I feel that may answer the question of how old Daddy REALLY was.