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From: Ben Franklin <>
Subject: Re: [MOGreene] Greene Co. death records circa 1916
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:42:17 -0400
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The state does not actually have complete control over the forms, and
for this reason you will see that from state-to-state and year-to-year
the forms don't change much. From the CDC's website:

"In the United States, State laws require death certificates to be
completed for all deaths, and Federal law mandates national collection
and publication of deaths and other vital statistics data. The National
Vital Statistics System, the Federal compilation of this data, is the
result of the cooperation between the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) and the States to provide access to statistical
information from death certificates.

Standard forms for the collection of the data and model procedures for
the uniform registration of the events are developed and recommended for
State use through cooperative activities of the States and NCHS.
Material is available to assist persons in completing the death
certificate. NCHS shares the costs incurred by the States in providing
vital statistics data for national use."

Anyway, the short answer to your question is, yes, there were blanks for
the names of the parents.

Ben



Robin Hoff Kaspar wrote:
> Does anyone know if death certificates of this era included parents' names?
> I have a copy of a modern one which does, but the state could have changed
> them over time.
>
> Robin


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