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Ancestry/Genealogy

shraby

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4. Check at your local county courthouse. What's at the state is also kept there.

Reply to yonder (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 03:03 PM

Jun 2018

Also check with familysearch.com
It's run by the LDS and is free to use, you just have to register. They have a huger than huge database of vital stats from all over the U.S.
I use it all the time to get the death record because it helps me put the info in the correct cemetery. Not always, but often the cemetery is named where the burial took place.

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When researching in old newspapers, don't count on the first name being right. [View all] shraby Jun 2018 OP

My mom has been researching our family for over 12 years BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #1

The Mormons have a lot of information murielm99 Jun 2018 #3

That's true radical noodle Jun 2018 #8

I've a question yonder Jun 2018 #2

Check at your local county courthouse. What's at the state is also kept there. shraby Jun 2018 #4

In this state, Wisconsin, the marriage records are also kept at the state level shraby Jun 2018 #5

shraby, thanks for your response yonder Jun 2018 #6

In this county, there is an index at the courthouse in the Register of Deeds office - shraby Jun 2018 #7

I think I have a reason why information might be wrong in some of these old death notes/obits The Genealogist Jun 2018 #9

Also the person taking the information for the record may not have spoken the shraby Jul 2018 #11

About the only thing reliable on a death certificate is the date..... LeftInTX Jul 2018 #10