In a message dated 8/25/2004 6:25:13 PM Central Daylight Time, grubisic@netwurx.net writes: The copies from microfilm cost about 25 cents. Ashley... You had to be looking at the PRE-1907 records.. Those are easy to get to, and cheaply copied. Try getting one for a grandmother that in 1987. That info is ONLY available at the courthouses. Copies are not permited unless they are the $12.00 certified copies, and If you want to just browse thru the books (at least in Milwaukee) you have to have an pre arranged appointment.. There you stand.. furiously writing what ever you can down. And if I am not mistaken, Wisconsin has some sort of law keeping any list or index from being posted of their records, so you can't just online some where if great uncle Joe died in Woods Co. or Portage Co. You have to go there, hire someone, beg some one or pay for a search fee and copy fee... NOT CHEAP.

Living in Wisconsin, this is my experience to obtain post-1907 death certificates. Madison has a form that they require to be filled out and sent in along with payment. If you want a certified copy, the cost is, I believe, $12.00; but if you want a copy for genealogy purposes (not for collecting insurance or any other legal purpose), the cost is $7.00. After completing the form, sign it and send it in to Madison. I don't recall exactly, but it takes a few weeks to get the copy, but I've never had a problem getting a copy as long as I knew most of the information that was required on the form. If you following this link, you can download the form that is required not only for deaths, but for births and marriages, etc as well: http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/VitalRecords/index.htm Kind regards, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: IrisLillie@aol.com To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [GenWisc] which state death certificates 1907+ In a message dated 8/25/2004 6:25:13 PM Central Daylight Time, grubisic@netwurx.net writes: The copies from microfilm cost about 25 cents. Ashley... You had to be looking at the PRE-1907 records.. Those are easy to get to, and cheaply copied. Try getting one for a grandmother that in 1987. That info is ONLY available at the courthouses. Copies are not permited unless they are the $12.00 certified copies, and If you want to just browse thru the books (at least in Milwaukee) you have to have an pre arranged appointment.. There you stand.. furiously writing what ever you can down. And if I am not mistaken, Wisconsin has some sort of law keeping any list or index from being posted of their records, so you can't just online some where if great uncle Joe died in Woods Co. or Portage Co. You have to go there, hire someone, beg some one or pay for a search fee and copy fee... NOT CHEAP. ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== Mailing list moderator: Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore email: kingsley@aol.com

Iris, and whomever would need a duplicated copy, Grandma died in 1976 and Grandpa in 1962. I got duplicating machine copies at the vital records office for 25 cents each about 2 years ago in the summer. Really. In fact, the duplicates off the microfilm were somewhat easier to read than one of the official death certificates, to my eyes, and for one of them I did pay for an official copy too. One was too illegible to bother with spending more than a quarter. As far as I know, I've got nobody in the family who died in Wisconsin earlier than Grandpa in 1962. I definitely wasn't looking at pre - 1907 certificates. They really are available after 1907, at least in Madison. I don't know what the ARC holdings are. I've not looked at individual county records either but I may sometime, as that illegible one bothers me. But the reason for Madison having the records is partly to have a central repository and, if you go there yourself or can find someone to go for you, the copies are available, officially at rather a lot of dollars, and unofficially at a small part of a dollar. I do also find it most irritating that WI has so little on line. If MN can put all the birth, death, and marriage records on line, why can't WI? Well, we already know the answer: they get more money out of us, or so the budget crunchers think, if they keep control over all the data. Wouldn't it ever occur to one of these bean counters that the more people who can find data on line, the more people who will want official copies of the data they find, like Grandma's and Grandpa's death certificates? Indeed, if those things were only $4 or $5 rather than the $12 Iris mentioned, I'd even have an official copy of the illegible one. Instead of a sale for 25 cents, they could have had me spending another $4 or $5. However, I won't waste $12 for something illegible even if official. Also, WI doesn't put these things on fine papers. I ordered death certificates from Florida for members of my father's family and they came on engraved bank note paper, multicolored and beautiful. THAT's a certificate that LOOKS like something, something real, something official. Didn't cost $12 either. Bean counters, blah. Ashley Good hunting, Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: IrisLillie@aol.com To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [GenWisc] which state death certificates 1907+ In a message dated 8/25/2004 6:25:13 PM Central Daylight Time, grubisic@netwurx.net writes: The copies from microfilm cost about 25 cents. Ashley... You had to be looking at the PRE-1907 records.. Those are easy to get to, and cheaply copied. Try getting one for a grandmother that in 1987. That info is ONLY available at the courthouses. Copies are not permited unless they are the $12.00 certified copies, and If you want to just browse thru the books (at least in Milwaukee) you have to have an pre arranged appointment.. There you stand.. furiously writing what ever you can down. And if I am not mistaken, Wisconsin has some sort of law keeping any list or index from being posted of their records, so you can't just online some where if great uncle Joe died in Woods Co. or Portage Co. You have to go there, hire someone, beg some one or pay for a search fee and copy fee... NOT CHEAP. ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== Mailing list moderator: Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore email: kingsley@aol.com