"If you haven't already, you might want to check out their website at www.congressionalcemetery.org for obituaries. Bill" First of all I want to thank William/Bill Boswell for the information about the Congressional Cemetery site. While checking some of my surnames on it I found my great-great-great grandmother who I thought had lived and died in VA. The record not only informed me of her death but also the name of her widowed daughter's new husband which led to finding them all on the D.C. census. I will be contacting the D.C. Vital Records in hope that they have the death certificate from 1887. This leads me to a question for the list. Has anyone ever dealt with D.C. Vital Records in an attempt to get a death certificate based on the 10 year census span? I have discovered that my great grandfather is listed on the 1920 D.C. census but on the 1930 D.C. census his wife is listed as a widow. I honestly am not sure how to discover when in that 10 year span he died other than paying the Vital Records department to search for it - I'm not even sure if they offer such a service or what the cost would be. All the other death certificates that I have requested I have at least had an approximate year and paid $12.00 for the copy. I do know that the D.C. library will not search the newspaper microfilms for an obituary without a specific date of death - and I have no idea which cemetery in which he would have been buried. Any suggestions??? Thank you, Susan McIntyre Michigan