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how can i access public records online like marraige and death certificates for free?


As my grandmother used to say,"they are few and far between," but a few do exist. On the FamilySearch.org pilot site they have a few. I know they have some Texas death certificates. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Also, the state of Missouri has a wonderful website that includes:
Missouri Birth and Death Database pre 1910
Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1958
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/

Georgia’s Virtual Vault has a database of Death Certificates for 1919-1927. http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php

So, if I were in need of a marriage or death certificate, I would always check any websites for the state that would have issued the certificate.

  1. Ted Pack
    May 6th, 2010 at 02:35 | #1

    Find a web site and read it.

    There is no world-wide site. There isn’t a nation-wide site for the USA. Very few sites have the certificates themselves. Most have an index.

    http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
    for instance, is a Social Security death index. It has people in the USA who died after about 1960 – 1970.

    http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi
    California Death Records – 9,366,786 records from 1940 thru 1997

    http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx
    West Virginia BMD records, various counties, various time frames

    http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html
    Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900

    I pasted some examples from my bookmarks to show you they DO exist, and you have to hunt for them. Google will help you find them. For instance,

    Siskiyou marriage records

    will get you to

    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~casiskiy/

    which has BMD records for Siskiyou County, California.

    Note that most of the on-line data will be for dead people, to protect living people’s privacy.
    References :

  2. Tina
    May 6th, 2010 at 03:14 | #2

    As my grandmother used to say,"they are few and far between," but a few do exist. On the FamilySearch.org pilot site they have a few. I know they have some Texas death certificates. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

    Also, the state of Missouri has a wonderful website that includes:
    Missouri Birth and Death Database pre 1910
    Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1958
    http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/

    Georgia’s Virtual Vault has a database of Death Certificates for 1919-1927. http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php

    So, if I were in need of a marriage or death certificate, I would always check any websites for the state that would have issued the certificate.
    References :

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