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.
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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 :
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 :