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/WBC.2ACI/2446.1 Message Board Post: Since your father was born in April 1910, he should be on the 1910 Federal Census (taken in May 1910). 1920 and Go to <ancestry.com> and type in his name. With membership you can get the page number he is on and actually see it. You will find out with whom/where he was living. His age would be 1/12, meaning he was one month old. Check the 1920 and 1930 censuses also. Go to <www.vitalrec.com/> for info on birth, marriage and death records for the State of Virginia. You say there is no record of his birth, so you need to see his marriage records. I would contact the Virginia State Library (<google.com>, and ask whether Dr. Selden's birth records are in their archives. Your dad probably signed up for Social Security (started in 1935), and <ancestry.com> has records of his application. See your local Social Security office after you get his Social Security number.