Oh, and yes, if it's listed in the Vital Statistics indexes, the odds are excellent it does exist. ;-) In fact, it would be odd for it to be listed in the indexes if it doesn't exist. Although state law didn't mandate the keeping of birth and death records until 1913, there are the occasional instances of earlier records being kept. However, quite possibly since this precedes the state's mandate (and its standardized forms), the details about the deceased may vary from that which you'd expect to find at a later date. On Feb 25, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Joanne Gaudio wrote: > Can anyone tell me how likely it is that, if a person's name is in > the NC Death Collection, there will be a death certificate > available? I have a relative who died in 1910, and the Archives > order form says that death certificates are available from > 1913-1955. Yet I know there were death certificates issued before > 1913. The name in the Death Index has the date, the county number > (Wilson Co.), and then a number - D008 515. Is that a death > certificate number? I'm trying to decide if it's worth sending the > Archives $20 and asking, or if they're sure to tell me it's too > early. Any advice will be appreciated. (I'm not in the area and > can't visit myself, and it isn't practical to try and rent a > microfilm for one record.) > Joanne Pearce Gaudio > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCWAKE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message