AbstractWe consider the ill-posed Cauchy problem in a bounded domain{\mathcal{D}}of{\mathbb{R}^{n}}for an elliptic differential operator{\mathcal{A}(x,\partial)}with data on a relatively open subsetSof the boundary{\partial\mathcal{D}}. We do it in weighted Sobolev spaces{H^{s,\gamma}(\mathcal{D})}containing the elements with prescribed smoothness{s\in\mathbb{N}}and growth near{\partial S}in{\mathcal{D}}, controlled by a real number γ. More precisely, using proper (left) fundamental solutions of{\mathcal{A}(x,\partial)}, we obtain a Green-type integral formula for functions from{H^{s,\gamma}(\mathcal{D})}. Then a Neumann-type series, constructed with the use of iterations of the (bounded) integral operators applied to the data, gives a solution to the Cauchy problem in{H^{s,\gamma}(\mathcal{D})}whenever this solution exists.