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From: "Drew Dubler" <>
Subject: Re: Death location codes for NYC certificates
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:04:49 -0400


> From: MRS ELIZABETH V BRADY <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: Death location codes for NYC certificates
> Date: Tuesday, May 06, 1997 5:41 PM
>
> -- [ From: Elizabeth V. Brady * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
>
> As you appear to have a great deal of knowledge regarding New York City
> Death Certificates, I am writing to you in the hopes that you may have
> an idea as to how I might obtain information regarding the strange
> circumstances surrounding the death of my great-grandfather who died in
> 1904 in San Francisco, California, but was buried by his family in Green
> Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. I have been told that the reason that Green
> Woods cemetery's records state that he died of "poisoning" was that the
> gas light in his San Francisco hotel room went out and thus the fumes
> took his life. The Undertaker is listed as John Newman. San Francisco
> does not have any death records due to the earthquake of 1905. As a
> resident of Brooklyn, where he was buried, I assumed that they, too,
> would have had to issue a death certificate,

No, only a burial permit.
For a burial permit, they would need a copy of the San Francisco death
certificate. Where these burial permits are archived is unknown to me. If
they would keep a copy of the DC is also unknown to me.

Any undertakers out there with answers?

> but when I wrote for this
> document nothing was found. Any ideas or thoughts as to how I might
> proceed would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Betty

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