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From: "J Torre" <>
Subject: Re: Death Certificate
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:44:33 -0700
References: <20051004164200.XEXO10162.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>


Ditto the suggestions in other responses. Mine are similar 1) call Calvary cemetery and ask if there is a place of death indicated in case is does say something like NJ. Whatever it says is not necessarily correct, but could be a clue. 2) Check the death index on italiangen.org if you haven't yet tried that and do searches with spelling variations and "sounds like".

I just recently searched the microfilm index for a death on a specific date. At first I didn't find it, but then I looked for other spellings that could have been misconstrued by the indexer from the handwriting on the certificate (I did it for an acquaintance and can't remember the actual names) -- and there it was. Perhaps the clerk who handled your request didn't go beyond the obvious. Also, some years ago we searched for a family member who died in 1898. We knew the burial date at Calvary, knew that the family lived in Manhattan, found no death record in NYC. Calvary had no record of the death certificate. Finally did locate it in NJ. The only clue was family lore that he "died in a Dupont explosion". Took some digging but eventually someone learned of an 1898 Dupont explosion in Pompton Lakes and voila!

Jeanne Torre
----- Original Message -----
From: Suzanne Forte
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Death Certificate


I just received a letter from the NYC Municipal Archives in response to my request for a death certificate on my great grandfather. They said that the records was not found. They searched Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx. He lived in Manhatten when he died. I had his exact date of death in 1922 from his headstone at Calvary Cemetery.
Does anyone have any idea why there would not have been a death certificate?

Suzanne Forte

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