One additional note NJ archives BMD records after 1878 has them but does not own them. The dept. of Health does. Because of they cannot search them for you. http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/webcat/queries/sehealt2.html You must get a NJ list member to do it or hire a private researcher. I have done many post 1878 searches at the archives and your window of 5 years is not difficult. If I had plans to go soon I would do it for you. I'm an hour from Trenton. The alternative is the dept. of health which takes forever. MIKE maurmike1@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MIKE MCHENRY Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:04 PM To: njhudson@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] 1910-1915 Hudson County Death I think your best bet is NJ archives. MIKE maurmike1@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maureen Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:58 PM To: njhudson@rootsweb.com Subject: [NJHUDSON] 1910-1915 Hudson County Death Can anyone help me with information as to how to get a copy of a death certificate or an obit for someone whose death date and exact place are unknown?    She died at home in either Hoboken or lower Weehawken around 1910-1915.    The grandchildren (who lived on Willow Street in Hoboken but had another set of grandparents a block from St. Lawrence's School) found her dead on the kitchen floor when they came "home" for lunch from St. Lawrence's School.   But I don't know if this grandmother and grandfather lived with the children's family or on their own.  Or in which place (if there were two separate homes) the grandmother was actually fixing the children's lunch that day.   The grandparents lived in NJ only a few years -- maybe only a year or less -- until the grandmother died and the grandfather moved back to NYC where he died in 1917 -- and they were not listed in the city directories available in the New Jersey Room at the Jersey City Public Library when I visited several years ago.    They were all -- the two families -- in Manhattan on the June 1910 Census and the child who remembered the death of her grandmother in Hudson County, NJ, graduated from St. Lawrence's School in June 1915.  So that is a 5-year window.   Are the death records for that era in the custody of the individual towns, the county, or the state of NJ?  Health Department?  Archives?  City or County Clerk?  Will any of them perform multi-year searches?  Will the newspapers?   Are any Hudson County records online now?   Many thanks for your help! Maureen in Chicago     ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message