Historical Death Certificates
This comprehensive guide will tell you where and how to find your ancestors vital certificate or what substitutes can be used to uncover the same genealogical information.
Historical death certificates. Birth certificates if on file for at least 75 years and the person whose name is on the birth certificate is known to be deceased. The municipal archives maintains historical birth death and marriage records for the five boroughs of new york city manhattan brooklyn bronx queens and staten island. If you want copies of the records for historical and genealogical research purposes you can purchase them either e files at 1117 each or paper copies at 2239 each. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.
To report technical problems with this web site please contact the new york state archives at archinfo at nysedgov. Digitized images of the original death certificates are linked to the search results. Death certificates prior. Generally the new york state department of health provides uncertified copies of the following types of records for genealogy research purposes.
Birth certificates prior to 1910. For birth records after 1909 contact the new york city department of health. Ohio department of health death certificates 1913 1944 1954 1963. The indexes cover the entire state outside of new york city and start in june 1880 deaths or 1881 marriages and birthsbirth indexes are made available after 75 years marriage and death indexes after 50 years.
Every name is linked to the original record in digitized form and you can search and view every item free of charge. The online death certificate index contains death certificates issued in 2001 that are not on the microfilm held by the minnesota historical society. Missouri death certificates 1910 1968 the missouri death certificate database can be searched by first middle and last name county year and month. Whats in the death certificate index.
Certificates not on the microfilm include numbers 000001 000796 and numbers higher than 534515. The new york state archives is part of the office of cultural education an office of the new york state education department. Start a quick search above to begin using our fully searchable database containing one million names. If youd like to order a death certificate by mail fill out this print fill out printable pdf or this online form allows for online payment.