Colleen, Sorry, if I'm butting in between you and Mysty but I wanted to tell you my experience with the State of Oklahoma. I have gotten back every request I've sent in, with results. I have about 4 or 5 death certificates on grandparents and great grandparents. And my surnames are fairly common (Hawkins and Curtis). However my husband has gotten every Jackson but his grandfather, and the first names were not even similar. So you see sometimes it works, somtimes not. With Arkansas, I knew the cemetery and exact date of death and date of birth of my ggrandmother Ruth Tracy Richardson, and got a "could not locate" or something like that. So, I thought you could take my experience with the ST of OK for what it's worth but I got everything I requested. Judy Curtis Jackson