Thank you Jim! Now I need to find time to get into the city and look at that index! I've been a bit nervous about that "playing hardball" bit, which is why I haven't even tried to order this record before - it seemed too complicated to essentially have to comply with the requirements for receiving a recent death certificate when the one I want is almost 70 years old. Kathleen On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Jim Garrity <[email protected]> wrote: > The New York Public Library Milstein Division on Fifth Avenue has bound > Death Index books for all boroughs for the years up until 1982. These books > were in Room 121 when I last used them. They definitely had the book for > 1949 (one year's book, 1968, is missing). > > This will get you the certificate number - however, if the folks at the > DOH want to play hardball, having the certificate number may not help. They > make the rules, and even though we should be able to get death certs from > 1949, they may not agree. > > Good luck, > > Jim Garrity > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via <[email protected]> > >Sent: May 31, 2015 4:50 PM > >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Death Certificate from the DOH > > > >I have a 2x great-grandmother who died in Brooklyn in 1949, so her death > >certificate is held by the Department of Health rather than the Municipal > >Archives. However, I believe that it's old enough to be considered a > >publicly accessible record. My request was just returned to me, having > been > >denied because I hadn't listed her parents' names, or the certificate > >number. I don't know her parents' names - that's why I want the > >certificate! And the application instructions said nothing about an index > >where you could find the cert #, so I have no idea how I would even be > able > >to provide that. I provided her name, date of death, and place of death - > >surely that's sufficient for them to look it up, no? > > > >Has anyone had success in ordering certs from the NYC DOH who can give me > >some tips on how to get my request fulfilled? > > > >Thanks! > >Kathleen > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >