I believe the original document is there at the courthouse, but is maintained in a separate file. I actually knew someone that let me look at and make a correction on a name on one of the certificate. But the certificate they type up is all the information they normally let you have access to. It comes directly from the death register book. You can get a copy of the "real" certificate from vital statistics in Charleston in most all cases. SissyRZ@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Y'all, > > I agree with Brend Dillon. I have had several replies come back from > McDowell County that say my records can not be found. Has anyone ordered a > death certifcate from them? Do they know what a copy of the ORIGINIAL > document means? That piece of paper they type up for you is not very helpful. > It sounds like going to the courthouse yourself is the only way to get the > information you need. > Susan Ryntz > Researching: Chaffin/Vanhoose/Perdieu/Trent/Lambert/Bailey/Puckett/Roberts and > probably a few I missed off the top of my head.... > > ==== WVMCDOWE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > .........................McDOWELL MAILING LIST......................... > Our McDowell Mailin List is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data > Cooperative. RootsWeb is funded entirely by you, the genealogical com- > munity. To find out how you can support these and other internet genea- > logy through RootsWeb, why not go ahead and just visit this page: > ........http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html......... > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%