Where do I get a death record?
My mom died when I was 8. I wasn’t told the truth about how she died. I’m 22 now, my older sister just died as well. She was 18 when my mom died, I found some journaling in her things that indicated my mother didnt die the way I was told. How do I get the records of her death? The state is Florida. I have no other family except a 21 yr old sister who knows just as much as I do.
Florida has a website set up for ordering death certificates that may help you:
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/planning_eval/vital_statistics/deaths.htm
Contact the coroner’s or medical examiner’s office (both do the same thing just different names in different counties) for the county she died in.
The or the county clerk are the keepers of death certificates most places.
If her death was violent the coroner or ME may have done some investigation that can lead you to other paper work.
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Florida has a website set up for ordering death certificates that may help you:
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/planning_eval/vital_statistics/deaths.htm
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Go to or write to the Clerk of Courts in the county in which your mother died. You should be able to get a copy of the death certificate for a nominal fee. I don’t know how much that is in Florida, but for example, in Milwaukee County, WI, the fee is $2.
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