This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3U.2ADE/1328.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sheila, Arizona has some of the strictist privacy laws in the country. Birth records aren't public for 75 years and death records 50 years. Immediate family can obtain death certificates in writing.... see: http://www.hs.state.az.us/vitalrcd/apply_death_mail.htm or online at: http://www.vitalrec.com/. Hope this helps, Jim