{"id":1546,"date":"2012-06-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/06\/before-you-get-that-death-certificate"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:00:00","slug":"before-you-get-that-death-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/06\/before-you-get-that-death-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Get That Death Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a copy of your ancestor&#8217;s death certificate, think twice before paying one of those online places an exorbitant fee for &#8220;instant&#8221; or overnight services. Here are some general suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check <a href=\"http:\/\/familysearch.org\/\">FamilySearch.org<\/a> to determine if the certificates are online there at no charge.<\/li>\n<li>Determine if the records have been microfilmed and are available via loan through the <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/#form=catalog\">Family History Library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Check the appropriate state archives or state historical library website to see if the certificates are online there.<\/li>\n<li>Determine what the state office of vital statistics charges for a copy.<\/li>\n<li>Determine what the county or town charges for a copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Unless you are settling an estate or performing some type of legal work, a certified copy probably is not necessary. Check around before getting your copy from the first place that comes up when you perform a Google search.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a copy of your ancestor&#8217;s death certificate, think twice before paying one of those online places an exorbitant fee for &#8220;instant&#8221; or overnight services. Here are some general suggestions: Check FamilySearch.org to determine if the certificates are online there at no charge. Determine if the records have been microfilmed and are available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}