Death Records?

Question

Ok this may sounds a bit off or weird.

But I'm looking for a family member of mine.

And wanted to know how I can go about looking for death records from the 1930's. Preferably children in the 1930's - 1950's. I'm doing some research on my family history and we have a picture of her and thats it nothing more and nothing less. I was told she died at a young age around 5 or 6 years old.

If anyone could give me a hint at to where to start or a website that i can go to - to find the death certificate that would be great.

Answer 1

Missourt State Archives has all their Death Certificates online from 1910-1957.

Each year they will add another year.

you can try the State Archives Of the State they died in and they will either have it on line or your'll have to pay and order it.

Answer 2

Hmmmm... well, when she died, she may have been buried with some relatives, like maybe her grandparents.  Or maybe her parents purchased a cemetery plot when she died, and were later buried there themselves.  If you can find out where her parents or grandparents were buried, you could visit the gravesite and see if she's there.

If the cemeteries are too far away to visit, you could contact the cemetery office and ask for a list of all the people who are buried in the family plot.  Another option: many county historical societies have published books with cemetery records; you could call the local library and ask someone to look in the book for you.

If you know her name, and can narrow down her death date, you can try ordering a death certificate for her.  Here's a link to vital record offices for each state:

http://www.vitalrec.com/

Answer 3

Hello There, try this website

http://scotfamtree.11.forumer.com

Doesn't matter what nationality you are - this site is fantastic for all kinds of Genealogy etc.

Good Luck

Answer 4

Most of the web sites are going to charge you. If you live near by, go to the county and ask to search their data base. There used to be an outstanding site that the government had but people were stealing information from it.

Answer 5

Unless you put it in your question, we can't tell what country you are in. It is the most frustrating thing Yahoo does. It doesn't matter if you go into domestic Yahoo or one of the International Yahoos (UK, Australia, Canada, India . . .), all of the questions in English go into one big "pot".

If you are in the USA, some states have death records on-line and some do not. Google

{State name} Death Index

for your state. West Virginia has some records back that far for some counties. Missouri has some too, but I don't know how far back they go. There isn't a nation-wide index and all of the state ones are incomplete.

You should also ask if the special collections / genealogy section of your main county library has a death index on microfilm.

If you don't have her name, you won't find her. If her surname was common, you won't find her either. Most death indexes just list the person's name and death date. A very few list mother's maiden name for some of the people.

If you know her parents' names, where they lived and, again, if she was in the USA, post them and someone may look them up on the 1930 census for you.

Answer 6

The most straight-forward way is to go to the County Clerk's office in the place where she died and do some research. Information that doesn't make its way on the internet can still be viewed for free and copied for about $10-15 so that you have the whole picture. While you're there, you can also pull her birth certificate and get all of the information off of that. You can keep playing on the internet, but it's rare to find a full death certificate on the internet. The best you might hope for is a death index...and you wouldn't have enough information from the index to know if it's her or not. If you go in person (or ask a volunteer off the US GenWeb project to go for you) you can get the fullness of information on her. For the GenWeb go to http://www.usgenweb.org