Where can you locate this index? GAG -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Death certificates, etc. >In a message dated 7/12/1999 1:39:46 PM Central Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< Does anyone know if a death certificate from 1917 > would be available from the county court house? Or, > where should I go to obtain a copy? >> > >Pam, >Are you familiar with the "Texas Death Index"? It was available till >recently till just 1973, but now it current through the 90's. >You can look up in that index and find the person you are looking for, 1917 >would be in the Death Index for 1903-1940 and it is alphabetized. It will >give you the certificate number and then you can write to Austin, giving them >the certificate number on the index, the county and person's name, and get a >copy of the certificate for $9.00. Send it to: >Bureau of Vital Statistics Texas Department of Health >P.O. Box 12040 Street >Austin, TX, 78711-2040 >To verify current fees:Tel: (512) 458-7111 >Check or Money Order: Texas Department of Health > >One word of warning, if it is not the right person you want, you will still >get the certificate and not your money back. Another thing, they have a form >that they use when you go to Austin to obtain a copy of the certificate, but >I find it best just to write a letter asking for the certificate of "my >ancestor", if you are not a close relative sometimes they will refuse the >request, (I think it's up to the person filling your order) but the ones I >have requested as "my ancestor" have all been honored. >Another thing, if it's not in the index it does not mean that there was not a >certificate issued, it just may have not been registered with the state, then >I would check the county, it may have never left their records. > >Good luck, >Yolanda Pepper Miller > >