Katherine! The same thing happened to me on my Grandmother's death record.. What they did with the one I received is, they folded that area and then copied the record... But... I sent off for another one... by mistake... I got that one back with cause of death... So, it might be the employee doing it.. I can't figure it out... Sue W. Researching: Beekman, Finlay, Gilchrist, Reilly, Park -----Original Message----- From: katherine.fiedler <klfiedle@SUMMON.syr.edu> To: NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com <NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: Blanked out death certificate >I think there was a discission about this earlier, but it didn't >affect me at the time. Yesterday, though, I received my >great-grandfather's 1929 NJ [Essex County] death certificate with a >whole section blanked out! It looks like someone put a post-it note >over the section that gives cause of death! > >Why would they do that? Is it something the family, at the time, >requested? Is there a way to obtain this information? I have little >enough medical history (my mother was adopted), and this seemingly >insignificant bit of info was important to me. > >I can only imagine it might have been a violent death, or suicide. >Are they trying to protect me/the family? HOWEVER, I have >another death certificate from Essex County, NJ, same time period >(1921) which reveals the cause of death as self-inflicted. > >Were any of you who experienced this able to obtain the info? Or find >out why it was withheld? What should I do next? > >Katherine Fiedler Pitts, Fayetteville, NY > > >==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== >Read the NJESSEX mailing list FAQ: ><http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/faq/mailinglist.htm> > >