<< > if so, is there some other place I could check for this record? Also, my > g-g-grandfather had moved to Owego just 2-3 months before he died, but > previously his residence had been Candor for many, many years. Should I > perhaps contact the Candor town clerk as there was no record in Owego? > Any suggestions welcome. >> A death certificate is filed in the town where the person died. To give an example, my grandfather lived his whole life in New Berlin, Chenango County. On the day he died, he was taken to Sherburne, Chenango, to the hospital there. I went there and got his death certificate. Elaine