County Death Records

Normally you have to pay. But you might have a local county historical/genealogical society that has some of that information as is the case in Watertown, Wisconsin.

You need the ss death index, have a look at http://www.familysearch.org which gives access to this index, also
http://labs.familysearch.org and http://rootsweb.com both of which might just help.

good luck

You have to poke around. Here are some samples.

US, ~1970 – current year
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

California, 9,366,786 records from 1940 thru 1997
http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi

Preble Co., Ohio, pre-1930
http://www.pcdl.lib.oh.us/marriage/search.cfm

West Virginia, various dates and counties
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx

Google or Cyndi’s list may help you find a site.

On the FamilySearch.org pilot site they have a few. I know they have some Texas death certificates. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsear…

The Social Security Death Index [SSDI] can be found on the FamilySearch.org site at:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Also, the state of Missouri has a wonderful website that includes:
Missouri Birth and Death Database pre 1910
Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1958
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources…

Georgia’s Virtual Vault has a database of Death Certificates for 1919-1927. http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gade…

So, if I were in need of a marriage or death certificate, I would always check any websites for the state that would have issued the certificate.

As for birthdays, most areas in the USA didn’t require birth certificates until the 1900s. While a death certificate may have a date, there’s no assurance the date is accurate. You would have to look locally (not online) for church records or school records. If you post a specific questions – who, when, where – there are many of us with paid subscriptions to research sites that will see what we can find for you.

I am assuming that you are looking for date from 1925 and earlier
in which case I would suggest Cindi’s List or the LDS Family site.
But please, please, please, do not just copy information because it is there. THere is a method used by Genealogists canned contribution to credibility, that depends on documentation and proof.
I as this as there are many trees online that involve my family, most of which are incorrect, because people copied errors from others who failed to either use logic (a child can’t be born to a father before the father is born) and (is someone is in the US in October 1851 and someone else is born in England in March of 1852 with the same name they are not necessarily related.) or because they are to lazy to do the work to have quality research that their family can be proud of for generations to come, even if there is no one famous noted.

You have some good answers. Ancestry.Com isn’t free but your public library might have a subscription to it. They have lots of records.

Now some states did not start recording vital records until the first part of the 20th century.
Texas started in 1903. However, still a lot of people who were born at home or died at home did not get recorded. It wasn’t until after WW2 that a law was passed requirng the information to be recorded. My parents born in 1907 and 1908 respectively had to get a delayed birth certificates in order to draw social security. In some cities of Texas, there might be some death records on file with the city’s health department before 1903.

I joke about this. They were a lot smarter than we are today. They didn’t need a piece of paper to know that a person had been born or that they had died.

You could be enrolled at school, join the military, get a job, apply for a social security number and not have a birth certificate.

Each state is the U.S. is different.