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/zU.2ADE/545.1 Message Board Post: AZ is a closed state for birth and death certificates. Only death cerificates over 50 years old available to the public are available online at: http://genealogy.az.gov/ None after 1953 are available except to "immediate family". See: http://www.vitalrec.com/az.html#State