Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:45:14 -0800 From: PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-D Digest V01 #8 To: PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 8 Today's Topics: #1 [PHILLY~CEMS] Martha Menough VAN D ["Mary Lovell" <lovellr@seasurf.net] Administrivia: To contact the PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-D list administrator, send mail to PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-admin@rootsweb.com. Dear Mary If you've got the death year for your ggm, there are two easy avenues: 1. West Laurel Hill maintains pretty good records of each interment. I've got a lot of family buried there and info provided by the cemetery has included death dates, inter- ment dates, undertakers, family member names, sometimes cause of death, etc. Its almost as good as a death certificate for info. They charge a small fee for providing xerox copies. 2. PA Vital Records -- For any death after 1906, you can send for a copy of the death certificate. You can get an order form from www.health.state.pa.us/HPA/apply_bd.htm. Toward the bottom of the page, click on either fax form or mail-in form (you need Adobe Acrobat reader on your PC, but you can download that from this page, too). You'll need her full name, date of death (the year suffices), and the place of death (city and/or county). You'll also need to supply your relationship to the person and the reason for your request (e.g., genealogy). The fee is $3.00. If you don't have a year of death, you can ask them to search a decade at a time; its $28. You just send off the form with a check and sase. I've used their services many times; in some cases, I've received death and birth certificates in as little as two weeks. Their address is PA Vital Records, P.O. Box 1528, New Castle, PA 16103-1528, phone 724-656-3100 (8 am - 4 pm, M-F). Good luck! Laurie Burk Middlebury, CT ______________________________ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:21:43 -0800 From: "Mary Lovell" <lovellr@seasurf.net> To: PA-PHILA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001001c09c54$ac659be0$44e9f5cc@station3> Subject: [PHILLY~CEMS] Martha Menough VAN DUSEN, d. Phila. 1913 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am searching for the death date of my ggm. Martha Menough VAN DUSEN, who d. in 1913 in Philadelphia and was buried in the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, lot number 555. Moreland Section. Will appreciate any help you may give. Mary Lovell lovellr@seasurf.net ************************************************ ------End forward message---------------------------