In a message dated 12/9/2005 7:02:44 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: On death certificates do it state where in other countries our ancestors were born...other than on the census? Our ancestors Amelia Maurer...born in Prussia and Jacob Thomas...born in Bavaria? >> It depends on who was giving the information. Obviously the person that knows best is dead. Sometimes the person supplying the information is a spouse, child, or even an in-law. I have a death certificate of my ancestor, and the information on it--other than date and place of death--was supplied by the daughter-in-law. I suppose they picked her because the wife was grieving, son was with her, and the daughter-in-law was the next best thing. They could have made a better choice. She got the place of birth wrong (it was his childhood home, not the actual place he was born, because the family moved when he was 5), she got the father wrong (name listed was the father's middle name that he went by), and the mother's maiden name was wrong. The mother married twice, and the name listed was not her birth name, but the name of the first husband that died in the war...which was what she married #2 under. I'm sure she tried her best, but even "official" documents have incorrect information. Regards, Diane Wolford (Researching Michael and Robert Schenk/Schenck of Ellenboro and Mineral Point)