Hi, Anita, You may have to follow some hunches on your search. The first is that the Florida health department has birth records, and I think they go back to 1930. You may need to query them before you send in the application. Also, were you officially adopted? If so, you can have the records unsealed and that perhaps identifies him. Third, you can guess where he might have lived in Florida and get the microfilm of the city directories of the period. You can also guess where the family might have lived and check the census records. If he was born early enough in 1930, he may have been in the 1930 census. (Beware of online or CD census records; frequently the transcribers misspell or completely missed names. My Herbert is in CD census as Arthur!!!) Fourth, try to get his death certificate (from California) to see if someone gave a place of birth. With the place of birth, you can try the local newspapers of the era. They often carried announcements of births. With the place of birth, you also might be able to check the local churches for a baptismal record. Lastly, try the Social Security death index, find him, then order his application. Those applications have places of birth and parents' names. Hope this is helpful. Good luck and happy hunting. Laura in a balmy NC On Jan 6, 2007, at 1:01 AM, white-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Charles Edward "Chuck" White (MissAnitaWhite@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:06:53 EST > From: MissAnitaWhite@aol.com > Subject: [WHITE] Charles Edward "Chuck" White > To: WHITE@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <d24.4447062.32d0502d@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Looking for info on my biological father, trying to gather > info for my family tree > > This is all the info that I have on him, > and a couple of pictures > > Charles Edward White > Sep 13, 1932 Florida > written on the back of a pic of him at 2 yrs old > > Worked in construction in Madison County, Texas abt 1955 > Lived in Oakley, California 1956 > Worked at Cecchini Trucking Co. in Bridgehead, California Sep 1956 > Ran a Shell Service Station at 21 H Street in Fresno, CA 1956-1958 > (Chuck's > Shell Station) > Lived at 4321 Gearhart, Fresno, Fresno Co., California > 4288 W Shields Ave, Fresno, Fresno Co., California > > Father's name possibly Harold White who operated a motel in the > Miami-Dade > area abt 1956-58 > > His parents separated his mother and sister moved to Mt Vernon, NY > > Please contact me at; > > Anita White > MissAnitaWhite@aol.com > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the WHITE list administrator, send an email to > WHITE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the WHITE mailing list, send an email to > WHITE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WHITE- > request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of WHITE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1 > ***********************************