Claudia, The best Social Security data bases are about a quarter behind. You ought to be able to Google for death certificate and California and find where to send for them. You may have to show that you are related to get one. The States have tightened up the answers to requests for vital stats in recent years. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia M. Christensen" <jilbechris@stompit.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Estranged Mother >I have just learned that my estranged Mother passed away in February at the > age of 92. > Does anyone know how soon that information will register with SSDI. > > I am going to ask this to save time. > Where in California do I send for a "Certificate of Death"? > Is it possible to get the information on the certificate on the internet?? > I will no doubt need to send for more than one Certificate as she changed > her name four times. I do know where she was at the time of her passing. > Thank You, > JC > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > >