Sorry I don't have the direct #, but if you call DC Department of Health, ask to speak with Mr. Urbane Bass. He's been very helpful to me in locating death certificates when the staff has sent "no record found" responses. He is the only person that I'll deal with in that department. Good luck! Frank Dunnigan -----Original Message----- From: pifox <pifox@shentel.net> To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com <WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [WashingtonDC'' ] Urgent request - DC Info >PpsychoSal@aol.com wrote: > >> Hi. >> First of all, sorry if you receive duplicates, but I wanted to send this to >> both DC lists. >> >> I have a very urgent request especially since the Dept. of health in DC is >> not being very helpful. >> My grandmothers cousin is very ill and has been in 2 sanitariums here in >> Wisconsin. Her will has been lost, as most of her personal papers. She is >> dying and we'd like to make funeral arrangements for her, but want to be sure >> we'd do the right thing. She is a Christian Scientist, and belongs to the >> order of the Eastern Star. Her parents are buried here in Wisconsin. She >> never married, had no children. We are her closest relative, but we never >> talked about arrangements. SO.. To make the story short, her sister, who she >> lived with most of her life, died while they were living in Washington, DC. >> I have her social security report saying her death place was Lynn House, >> Washington, DC. I wrote to the (Vital Statistics) Dept. of Health in DC for >> her Death Certificate, paid the $12.00 and received a "CERTIFICATE OF SEARCH" >> from them stating they have no evidence of her death. >> >> It is imperative that I find her death certificate to find her place of >> burial, if any. We don't know if she was cremated, or perhaps donated her >> body to science, and we'd like to know, knowing that both sisters would have >> made the same choices. A direct phone number to someone at the Dept. of >> Health (Not to a phone line answered by a machine), r >> >> If anyone can help me out, it would be wonderful. The information I need is >> for Verna or Verne Schult, born Oct 26, 1891 in Wis. Died January 15, 1985, >> at Lynn House Sanitarium, Washington, DC. If it helps, her sister's name is >> Veryl Schult. >> Any leads would be appreciated. >> >> Thank you so much, >> >> Sally Lauersdorf Hagen >> Waukesha, WI >> >> ============================== >> Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >> your heritage! >> http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >did you contact the sanitorium in d.c.? >or where ever their records would be stored if they are no longer operating? >may also be a spelling error in records at vital statistics. > you should also ,"just in case" check with your grandmothers cousin's bank she >use to use and see if she ever had a safety deposit box ,explain this entire >situation with everyone you >question or search through. >also ask around if she ever had a lawyer,most of the time lawyers hold the >will's. > > >-- >from:D.L.M.FOX >FAMILY INVESTIGATIONS & GENEALOGY RESEARCH-UPDATED JULY 29,2001 >http://sites.netscape.net/INVESTIGATORFOX/homepage >http://americasunknownchild.net/ >http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm?sourceid=00289336853522699155 > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >