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/pBC.2ACE/4239.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any more info - Grandmother's name? age? where did he die? What kind of work did he do? any brothers or sisters? This can help to pin down a family to the correct one. I did find a James Walter Carson, right age, but in New Jersey! Any chance this is the man? World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record about James Walter Carson Name: James Walter Carson City: Newark County: Essex State: New Jersey Birth Date: 9 Mar 1883 Race: White Roll: 1753733 DraftBoard: 9 next of kin: Gertrude Eagle Carson ********** or this one?? California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record about JAMES WALTER CARSON Name: CARSON, JAMES WALTER Social Security #: 546100186 Sex: MALE Birth Date: 9 Mar 1883 Birthplace: COLORADO Death Date: 8 Apr 1957 Death Place: SAN FRANCISCO Mother's Maiden Name: Father's Surname: If this is the right one - you can get his Social Security application for about $30, and it should have his parents on it. Note that it says he was born in Colorado???? You should also be able to get his death cert from San Francisco if this is the right one. Note that the birth dates are the same for both above men - possibly the same??? ************* If this isn't the right man, more clues can help us determine the right one. :-)