Jean, your explanation does clarify it for me. Since I don't know the exact city where he died but I do know the month and year would my best bet be to order it from the Ohio Department of Health? Thank you very much for your response and help. Sherri ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [OHLORAIN] Ohio Death Certificate Collection at the Akron-Summit County ... > Sherri, > These records are not online. This is a microfilm collection that can be > viewed at the library only. However, the library will accept mail, phone, > or > email requests. See the website address below. > The Ohio Death Certificate Collection at the Akron-Summit Co. Library > currently goes from 20 Dec. 1908 to August 1952 with plans to extend the > collection > up to and including 1954. If you need a Death Certificate in that time > frame, > go to the library website at http://www.ascpl.lib.oh.us/ and look for > instructions in their Special Collections - Genealogy and Local History > Section. > > For a death certificate for 1978, you could write to the Ohio Department > of > Health. See the website at http://www.odh.ohio.gov for fees and the > correct > mailing address, or you can contact the city where the death occured and > write > to the office that holds those death records. > > Hope this clarifies the information. > > Jean > > > ==== OHLORAIN Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for OHLORAIN Mailing List > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHLORAIN >