Death Records
includes Death Indices,
Death Notices, Funeral Home Records and Federal Mortality Schedules
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Death Records are considered a 'vital' record. Prior to the start dates shown for each state below, a researcher will NOT find any official records of death for individuals. However, a deceased person's death information may be found in obituaries, death notices, Bibles, tombstones, funeral home records and mortality schedules.
Obituaries are not per se a death record even though long ago a person was not considered legally dead until their obituary was published in a newspaper. Obits are in their own, separate section within our SMARC web site. Death Notices are also found in newspapers, most often submitted by funeral homes.
USGenWeb and other sites have, in SMARC's opinion, mistakenly lumped Mortality Schedules within their Census category. Mortality Schedules are a list of deceased persons in that county for the previous year and should only be classified as a type of county death record. Censuses are lists of living persons on the day that census was taken. Simply because both schedules were taken by the federal government does not make them a 'census'.
The Social Security Administration [SSA] was started in the early 1930's. If a person continued working beyond those years and died after abt 1963, they may be found in the Social Security Death Index [SSDI]. Because wives did not usually work when the SSA was started, some of them did not apply or receive a Social Security Number [SSN] until after their husband's death. Generally speaking, all persons shown on the SSDI obtained their SSN prior to 1951 and were issued in the state where they were living at the time of application. Researchers may order a copy of an ancestor's SSN application.
Article:
The Social Security Death Index
Have you ever wondered why your ancestor isn't listed among
the 66 million
people indexed in the SSDI? Here's why.
Article:
Social Security and Railroad Retirement
Article:
Using Social Security Number Application Forms for Genealogy
Information on the Social Security application form can provide
important
and interesting genealogical clues.
Social Security Death Index - FAQ's
International Vital Records Handbook - 4th Ed.
Book: North Carolina Vital Records: Deaths 1968-1996
Book: Old Southern Bible Records Transcriptions of Births, Deaths
and
Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Deaths of US Citizens in Foreign Countries
courtesy of NARA
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GA |
NC Started in 1913 |
TN Started Jan 1914 |
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GA State Vital Records Office - what records are available, where they are located, to whom copies are given, fees, and how to order on-line. Death records are available to the general public. They can be obtained from the State Vital Records Office [all counties] or directly from the County where the death occurred. Links to GA County Probate Offices: |
NC State Vital Records Office - what records are available, where they are located, to whom copies are given, fees, and how to order on-line. State Office only has death records 1930 to present. Death records 1913-1930 are located at the NC State Archives. They also may have a few 'delayed' death certificates back as far as 1909. County Records are held by the Register of Deeds: Tips for Genealogical Research using NC Vital Records Certified copies of vital records are not available to everyone. North Carolina law [NCGS 130A-93(c)] specifies that certified copies of certificates are available only to the following people:
NOTE: Proof of identity and proof of eligibility are required. |
TN State Vital Records Office - what records are available,
where they are located, to whom copies are given, fees, and how to
order on-line. Death records are kept for 50 years, then sent
to the Some death records were begun in TN in 1908. Index to Tennessee Death Records 1908 - 1912. In 1913, the new law for state-wide records was passed to begin Jan 1914, so no records were kept for 1913. 1914-1953 Death Records are held at TSLA: The Statewide Index to Tennessee Death Records is a long-term project to index Tennessee death records for the years 1914 on, and includes children under two years of age. The index will eventually replace the Partial Index to Tennessee Death Records 1914-1925. The index lists name of deceased, county of death, and volume and page number of the certificate. Death Certificates for 1954 to present are available from TN State Vital Records Office The cause of death is not normally included on a certified copy unless specifically requested and then is available only to certain family members or legal representatives. |
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Searchable Death Records Databases:
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| Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 - @ ancestry.com | on-line @ ancestry.com: | none found on-line | ||||||||||||||
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Links to Transcribed Death Records On-Line: |
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1850 GA County Mortality Schedules:
1860 GA County Mortality Schedules: 1870 GA County Mortality Schedules 1880 GA County Mortality Schedules:
1880 GA state-wide Mortality Schedule - Surname Index - by Bob Tolbert Fannin GA
Deaths 1919-1926 |
1850 NC Mortality Schedules:
1860 NC Mortality Schedules:
Buncombe NC Death Index - by Diane Ramsey Miller Henderson NC Coroner's Inquests - by Kathleen Summers 1913-1927 Cherokee NC Deaths - by Dianne Ramsey Miller 1913-1964 Macon NC Death Index - by unknown - web page has no copyright or author's name. 1913-1914 Transylvania NC Death Certificates - by ALHN 1915 Transylvania NC Death Certificates - by ALHN 1916 Transylvania NC Death Certificate Images - by ALHN
Marriage & Death Notices from Extant Asheville NC Newspapers 1840-1870 |
1850 TN County Mortality Schedules:
1860 TN County Mortality Schedules: 1908-1910 Polk TN Deaths - by PCHGS 1914-1925 TN Death Index by County - at TSLA Death Notices in The Cleveland Journal & Banner 1909-1911 Monroe Co. - Death Notices from Early Newspapers - by Reba Bayless Boyer |
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Funeral Home Records: |
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Monroe TN:
Bradley TN:
Blount TN: Memorial Funeral Home Records [Maryville] - by Caleb Teffeteller The TSLA will, for a fee, search certain funeral home records. They have records in our covered counties: Blount and Polk only. Some are available for inter-library loan.
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