Thanks very much! On the left side of the page that you sent me, I saw a link Genealogy so I clicked on that and it said anyone could get a death reg as long as it is over 50 years old:

http://www.ongov.net/vital/genealogy.html

The gene page also has a link to a form to fill out and also suggests checking the County library databases:

http://www.onlib.org/web/lh/databases_list.htm

which I will now do.

Thank you so much for your help, much appreciated.

Marg in Snowy Alberta