This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1315.1 Message Board Post: oliver, records of death are on microfilm and are available to you through the Family History Library. They would charge you $3.25 per roll and you can have them for 43 days. If you go to www.familysearch.org and can find the nearest one to you. They are not available through interlibrary loan only through FHL. I have used them several times. Also you don't need a death certificate number if you know the date, month and year of death, just keep that in mind for the future. I that deaths are on microfilm at the New York Public Library. You can go to a website called Random Acts of Kindness and maybe someone can help you out this way. I think some of them charge and some don't. Hope this has been of some help.