From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jun 8 23:08:43 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5958hjb032088; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:08:43 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5958gmV009957 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:08:42 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k592X3FI010243 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:33:03 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k592X2Qf010242 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:33:02 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k58KpqFI009608 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:51:52 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k58NRJh1014199 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:27:19 -0600 X-Envelope-From: sherrieinfla@earthlink.net Thu Jun 8 17:27:19 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k58NRJjb014190 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:27:19 -0600 Received: from pop-satin.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-satin.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.63]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k58NRIUG031061 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:27:19 -0600 Received: from dialup-4.238.31.20.dial1.orlando1.level3.net ([4.238.31.20] helo=ssell) by pop-satin.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1FoTuI-0003Dr-00; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:27:19 -0400 Message-ID: <004401c68b54$320af350$141fee04@ssell> From: "Sherrie Sell" To: , References: <361.54ba1cb.31b9ea14@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Death Cert. Questions Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:35:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Spam-Score: 1.9 (*) BAYES_00,BEEN_TURNED_DOWN X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Indiana has tightened up. I wanted a death certificate for my uncle who died in 1951. They gave me a cerificate BUT refused to specify WHAT he died of. I had to have a near relative request for the "cause". The nearest relative was my 89 year old father, brother to the deceased. Dad had to have a copy of his driver's license and a letter signed by himself sent to the State of IN before the state would release the cause of death. I thought the whole thing rather dumb! Dad really wanted to know the official cause of his brother's death so we went thru with the whole procedure. Sherrieinfla ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Death Cert. Questions > > In a message dated 6/8/2006 4:42:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > juanita2@cox.net writes: > > I have been told that the counties had to send their death records to > Des Moines and the State Vital Statistics has stringent regulations > about who can have copies, like proof of relationship (how I can do > that, I don't know!). I've been told the record will be made > available only to the person's spouse, children, legal parents, > grandparents, grandchildren, siblings or legal guardian (I'm a > granddaughter of the deceased person's sister). > > > > I've seen these regulations before. I've written to many states that have > them, stating my relationship and that it's for genealogy purposes. Enclose a > stamped self-addressed envelope. I've never been turned down yet. At the > risk of annoying some people, I don't think the clerks who receive these > requests could care less about who is asking as long as the money is enclosed and > the info about the deceased is clear and precise. > >