Death Records Now

I went to a free site a couple of years ago and can’t seem to find it again. I don’t know if they all went to a pay system or what. I am trying to find some info on a deadbeat dad. Please help.

There used to be a lot of Ancestral research sites that offered items like that for free. Now they all figured out that they can make money charging people for it. Your best bet these days is to search locally. Go to your Recorder’s office, Health Department, and Court. Usually these places won’t charge you any fee for the search, just for copies of the documents. The problem with the search companies online that promise all sorts of information is that they are not very cheap, and all they are doing is checking those same places that you could check yourself. If they don’t find anything, you still have to pay.

DEATH RECORDS…SOMEONE PLEASE HELP?
WE WENT TO A CEMETERY YESTERDAY, AND THERE WAS A GRAVE, THAT CAUGHT MY INTEREST, I HAVE LOOKED ONLINE, GONE TO THE CITY RECORD AND I CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING, ON THESE TWO LITTLE KIDS. iF ANYONE HAS A FREE SITE OR SOME THING THEY KNOW OF CAN YOU PLZ LET ME KNOW. HERE IS THE INFORMATION ON THE KIDS. I DO NOT KNOW THE FAMILY OR ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT WHAT IS ONE THIER GRAVE…

THE NAME: Charlotte E. Davis
Birth: 9-14-1872
Death 3-16-1873

HER SISTER
NAME: unknown
birth 9-3-77
Death: 3-16-78

BOTH BURIED AT TOQUERVILLE UTAH…

THEY WERE BOTH 6 MONTHS OLD, BOTH DIED THE SAME DAY, AND THEY WERE 5 YEARS APART IN AGE, I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE POOR LITTLE GIRLS,

i HAVE LOOKED ON FINDAGRAVE, AND IT LISTS THE YEAR BORN AND DIED, BUT THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS BLANK

Your best bet may be to find the archives of the local newspaper for Toquerville in 1873. If the paper doesn’t mention the deaths of these specific children, it may describe an epidemic that was in progress in the area at the time.

what kind of information can you find on the social security death index?…I’m doing some family research and I was able to find my gg-grandfather’s ssdi, it has his birthday (dec. 25, 1860) and death-date (jun. 18, 1965) and where he died (Tulare, California), but nothing about the parents…other family member’s index’s have had something about parents on them, even if it’s the father’s surname or mother’s maiden…I also am having trouble finding a death certificate. Where would I look for that, and would his parent’s info for sure be on that?

I’ve been using Ancestry, Family Search Org, Roots web, and Family History Records data bases.
will it be my best bet to order the actual death certificate for his parent’s information?

The on-line SSDI has jus what you saw; name, birth date, death date, last residence and last benefeit, one of which may be th death place, and where the SSN was issued.

The SSN application, which costs $27, will have parents’ names, exact birth place, address and occupation at the time, and, for women, maiden name. Roots Web’s SSDI will format a letter to the SSA for you; click on "SS-5", print, add a check and wait 6 – 8 weeks.

The California Death Index, by Roots Web, has father’s surname and mother’s maiden name, sometimes. No SSDI I have seen has anything about parents. Some other death indicies do, most don’t.

I was recently told that my ex-husband had died years ago. I went to the Social Security Death Index, and all it told me was that he died in August of 1991. It did not say where his last residence was, so I do not know what state he was living in at the time. The newspaper in his hometown does not have archived obits that far back online, and I really want to find my information online, not in person, for personal reasons. His name was Joseph Allen Whitlow, Sr. We lived in Princeton, WV when we were married in the early 1980’s, and his mother still lives there, but I don’t want to call and ask her about it after this many years. My source about his death thought that he was living in Texas when he died, working as a manager for an apartment complex, and that he died of a drug overdose. But I can’t find anything in the Texas death record database or newspaper searches. Does anyone have any idea how to find this information online?

Your best bet is to go to a large library i looked up a death which took place some 45 years ago and found it with no problem