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From: Martha Grenzeback <>
Subject: RE: [MDALLEGA] death records
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 21:54:12 -0600
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In-Reply-To: <PDEKJONHCEONOBLCPBJOMEJACLAA.rkoontz@lenderscreditservices.com>


They send you a copy of the actual death certificate, so yes, definitely
much more information--though it depends somewhat on the year and on who
filled it out As an indication, my g-grandfather's 1926 certificate asked
for the following information:

Full name, sex, race, marital status (single, married, widowed, divorced),
date of birth, age in years, months, and days (or hours and minutes, if
less than a day!), occupation, nature of establishment or business in which
employed (in his case, for example, it was the W Va. Paper and Pulp Co.),
birthplace, father's name, birthplace of father, maiden name of mother,
birthplace of mother, name and address of informant (generally a relative),
date of death, affidavit by doctor as to last time he saw the deceased
alive, exact time of death, cause of death (including line for contributory
or secondary causes), name and address of attending physician, length of
residence ("for hospitals, institutions, transients or recent residents)
and former residence, where disease was contracted if not at place of death
(all these still pertaining only to recent residents), place of burial or
removal, date of burial, and name and address of undertaker.

In my g-grandfather's case, his oldest son was the informant. He did not
know his father's birthday (only month and year), or anything about his own
grandparents. Sigh....

Martha Grenzeback


At 01:30 PM 04-11-2003 -0500, Ruth Koontz wrote:
>I'm curious as to what they are going to mail you. Is there more info
>available than what you see on the web site?
>
>I'd send them all in the same envelope. I can't imagine there would be a
>problem with that.
>
>Ruth
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>To:
>Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] death records
>
>
>I have a question that maybe someone will know the answer to. I went to the
>death records, made copies to mail of the ones I would like to get. NOW, do
>I
>need to send each one in a separate envelope or can I send a group of them
>to
>be processed? I wrote their help line and the response is that they will
>try
>to get back to you within two weeks. Genealogist can be impatient and two
>weeks is almost like forever!!! I tried looking at the web site and see if
>there was any criteria but didn't see it.
>SOOOOOOO, anyone know??
>
>Kathy
>
>
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