If I want to create a genealogy, how would I acquire the necessary death certificates?

Question

(of great grandmothers, grandfathers, etc...)..... location??? cost to acquire them???

Answer 1

Death certificates cost anywhere from $5 to $20 depending on the state and/or county. Some states don't let you have them unless you are a relative, to prevent terrorists from mis-using the data to construct a false ID. You buy copies from the county clerk in the USA. In Australia you buy them from th eprovincial department of health. The French don't use them.

Social Security Death Indexes, cemetery records, funeral home records, church records, obituaries and cemetery transcriptions will all work for genealogy purposes. Rootsweb has partial death data for California, Texas and Maine on-line. There is an entire UK web site devoted to free BMD data.

Without a time period and a country, your question is impossible to answer. If you are 80 and the child of a long line of men who had second families in their 60's, your GGF could have been
born (80 + 60 + 60 + 60) 240 years ago. His granite tombstone would be so eroded you'd never be able to read it.

Answer 2

Most birth, marriage & death records can be obtained from the county clerk's office. I spent a fortune 1 mo calling for the cities these offices were in......or to call the city of death to find out the county of death. If the local office doesn't have a record you would need to contact the state's vital records office. Try county 1st tho 'cuz state records always cost more.

Note: It would be well worth it to join Ancestry.Com. Per "Family Tree" magazine it is the one service which has the most sources. These records can be obtained at Ancestry.com along with all public records in all states plus some other countries. They also have all Ellis Island records & milser records. It would probably save you time & money in the long run. Right now its pretty expensive (almost $200 for the entire pkg altho you can sign up for less) but they will soon be dropping the cost to around $100 for a year.

Also I recommend "Family Tree" magazine. You wouldn't believe the info available re sources & histories. If you're interested you can subscribe at: www.familytreemagazine.
com

Answer 3

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Answer 4

You must know place of death. Go to the town halls in the town where they passed and usually it's a small fee ~ $5-10.00.