Do you have an obituary ?? She may have siblings Do you know were she is buried ?? Do you a have a marriage record ?? Dome of abv may be beneficial to explore Ehat is the name and date of death .................. -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, May 31, 2015 4:52 pm 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

Her name was Mary King O'Hara, and she died in Brooklyn on 5 Nov 1949. I do have an obituary, but no access to it at the moment (have not yet transferred my files from the old computer to the new). I don't believe it mentioned siblings, although I believe she had at least 2 brothers in the US, John and Martin. You're right that I should track them down further - I have them on a few census records, but that's it. I think she's buried in Holy Cross, but that's just going off of memory - again, files are still on the old computer. (Ok, I get it, I know what I need to do next.) No marriage certificate yet - a few years ago I was trying to track down baptismal records for her kids, and traced the family through a few Brooklyn neighborhoods and tried to get in touch with the most relevant Catholic churches for their locations, but only was able to ID one baptismal record (no one else in the family was married or baptized at that parish). One other parish told me they didn't find anything, and none of the others responded - but I didn't follow up beyond the initial contact. Regardless of the other avenues I can and should pursue, it's still frustrating to be denied a record I think I should have access to! Kathleen On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Robert Pieterse <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you have an obituary ?? She may have siblings > > Do you know were she is buried ?? > > Do you a have a marriage record ?? > > Dome of abv may be beneficial to explore > > Ehat is the name and date of death .................. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, May 31, 2015 4:52 pm > 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 > >