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I am trying to find someone and I have reason to believe they passed away in the same state that I live in (Florida). Where can I go (besides the internet) to find a death report or a coroner’s report?

You may be able to find an obituary, in old newspapers on microfilm at the library, but you’d need to know the city and date. Those are easiest to find on the Internet; this SSDI, for instance, was last updated Aug 12, 2010:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

If the person died in an accident or as the result of a crime, there may be a news article as well or instead of an obit.

Unless you are a child or parent, or the person has been dead for a long time (how long depends on state law, and each state has its own) you won’t be able to buy either one. If you are related, you’d buy it either at the courthouse in the county the person died in, or from a state agency, usually a division of the health department.

  1. KevinB
    August 13th, 2010 at 19:05 | #1

    Usually, the death record is on file in the county courthouse in the county where the death occurred.
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  2. Shirley T
    August 13th, 2010 at 19:11 | #2

    You just aren’t going to find that on the web. Each state has its own laws about who, when and where a person can obtain vital records(birth, death) on another. If you are not immediate family there is a time period. For instance in Texas you cannot obtain a death certificate on another until 25 years after death.
    Often times there are privacy issues and the risk of identity theft. In many cases for death certificates a widow or widower can be vulnerable if the wrong person gets his hands on a death certificate.
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  3. Ted Pack
    August 13th, 2010 at 19:51 | #3

    You may be able to find an obituary, in old newspapers on microfilm at the library, but you’d need to know the city and date. Those are easiest to find on the Internet; this SSDI, for instance, was last updated Aug 12, 2010:
    http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

    If the person died in an accident or as the result of a crime, there may be a news article as well or instead of an obit.

    Unless you are a child or parent, or the person has been dead for a long time (how long depends on state law, and each state has its own) you won’t be able to buy either one. If you are related, you’d buy it either at the courthouse in the county the person died in, or from a state agency, usually a division of the health department.
    References :

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