Veromi has 50 hits for the surname AUSMUS, which may be the surname of Amy Diane Kloster’s father:

http://www.veromi.net/Summary.asp?fn=&mn=&ln=Ausmus&...

Unfortunately, none of the entries is for Excelsior Springs, which is the father’s residence, according to the posting of MaryHatfield 73.

I have a book published in 1975 titled, Rand McNally Yellow Guide. It says Excelsior Springs is in Clay county, Missouri and has the same zip code as Crescent Lake and Prathersville. Things may have changed since 1975.

Rootsweb’s Social Security Death Index is no longer visible for free to the public. Members of Ancestry.com may be able to see it or to see Ancestry’s equivalent. I am not a member so I cannot check to see if the “Add Post-em” feature is still alive.

The father’s full name would appear on the marriage license. If they were not divorced at the time of the mother’s death in 1993, his name might appear as informant on the mother’s death certificate or in funeral home records and cemetery records.

I have discussed death records dozens of times on Ancestry message boards. A search of all boards for

Reg Niles death certificate

should list those messages I posted--which can be read for education purposes. Addresses of vital statistics offices would be available online and in basic genealogy manuals and in the book I published in 2013: The Reg Niles Searchbook for Adult Adoptees, 2nd edition, in 2 volumes. Libraries that purchased this expensive book are listed on a website called WorldCat.

Today I received a query from someone whose alias begins with the letter B. It came from Ancestry.com in a format which does not permit me to click in order to respond. It lacked a true name and an e-mail address. Very mysterious.

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