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From: mt view <>
Subject: Re: [CAAlameda] Death Certs from County vs State?/pre 1960 there will be a wait
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Just a reminder if you are ordering a D.C., pre 1960, even if you go in person, there will be a wait of one to three days, while they look and them copy it.

George

wrote:
Could the problem also be the new law that went into effect that required you to get a notarized order (if done by mail) in order to obtain the cert? The last time I got any records I did so in person so I am not sure what you get by mail any more.

I do know when I ordered from Alameda County by mail a year or so ago, I had called an talked to a person about how to go about doing it. I had the state certificate number for my relative's death I told her. I gave it to her over the phone and she told me that they do not have their records archived using those numbers...so do not order your records from the county using a record number you get from some place like vitalquest as those are state cert numbers....just fyi.

Good luck
Stephanie

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>

> wrote:
> I have been getting death certificates from either the state or the county
> depending on how I feel that day. I recently got a letter from Santa
> Clara County telling me that they could not find a death certificate for a
> person who is in the state death index. I received a "death certificate"
> from Alameda County that looks like a copy of a 3X5 index card with
> information that must have been extracted from the original death
> certificate. This person is also listed in the state death index. Both
> are pre 1940 deaths.
>
> My question is whether I should write to the state for these two death
> certificates. Does a county routinely ask the state for a death
> certificate when they can't find one? Will the state have a certificate
> when the County does not have it?
>
> Just as an aside. My great grandfather died in Alameda County and neither
> the state nor the county has a death certificate for him. He died in 1899
> when there was no requirement to maintain such a record so I didn't really
> expect to find one.
>
> Another interesting factoid, I used the standard state form to request
> death certs from either the state or the county. The state marks the
> death certs as "information only" but the counties sent death certs
> without this marking. Is there a cut off date? All the county certs I
> just got were pre 1940. Perhaps after 50 years the "information only" vs
> legal document issue goes away?
>
> Steve McLeod
> Broad Run, Virginia
> http://smcleod.home.infionline.net/
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