Death and Marriage Certificates are only issued by County at $10.00 each for genealogy purposes -- no certified stamp -- or by State which is a certified copy at $20.00 each. With death and marriage dates you can just send request to County courthouse with check and they will mail directly to you. Library, Grout Museum and Black Hawk County Courthouse should all have birth-death and marriage indexes. Grout Museum also has Cemetery Books for Black Hawk County including St. Mary's of Mount Carmel. You can go to Courthouse and look up births and deaths in Indexes and then go to referenced Birth-Marriage-Death Books and record info yourself for free---week days. Andy Schrag