Hi, I just found a death date and death notice for a distant cousin, who supposedly died in a sanitarium in Milwaukee in 1937. I checked the Milwaukee rootsweb board and found names of 2 sanitariums there, which were located on the County Grounds. They were Muirdale and Bluemound. They may have been in existence in 1937. I will eventually look for a death cert. I do not live in Wisconsin. I did a search and it looks like the county courthouse or the state vitals office in Madison are my choices. In some states, you can get death certs from that time period at the state archives and sometimes it's much cheaper than going through the county or the state vitals or public health dept. I wanted to ask before I spend money. There may also have been an obit or death notice in a Milwaukee newspaper. We sometimes travel to Wisconsin so I can probably read microfilm on one of our visits. The man was not buried in Wisconsin, so no cemetery information is needed. As far as probate, I don't know. I have not looked into that yet. He actually lived in Chicago and probably had not been in Milwaukee for long. I've been researching him in Chicago and then lost him, so now I know why. Debbie