jeudi 20 février 2014

Florida Death Notices

By Ben Kingsley


Many people looking for information on their ancestors skip right past the death record, heading in a beeline for other vital information such as marriage and birth. One might not imagine what a document about death could possibly do with the living. As a matter of fact, a death record could bring light some significant information for the descendants of the deceased especially when searching for one's genealogy. Perhaps one of the most relevant areas of this vital record is the cause of death. At the present time, with the knowledge of how genetics contribute to health and diseases, the fact that an ancestor may have died from a genetically predisposed disease is paramount. Florida death records not only state the cause of death, but may also include any contributing factors and so many other important details about the decedent. In Florida, these records can be accessed through the Department of Health.

The primary source of vital records in Florida is the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Death records that date back to 1917 can be obtained from this office. Each record costs $5. To get a death record, you can mail the Vital Statistics office. Additionally, you can make a formal request for a death certificate by calling or going directly to the office. Florida death notices are also available through other repositories. One is by going to the County clerk's office to search for local documents recorded before the year 1917. Usually, death certificates that are acquired locally from health organizations in the county can be more informative compared to death registrations because these certificates have more data such as information of the decedent's family, cause of death and other significant details.

In the Sunshine State of Florida, any member of the public can obtain a death certificate without a cause of death. A death certificate that includes the cause of death of the decedent is confidential according to the law of the state. This kind of certificate can only be issued to the family of the deceased only, to the spouse, parent, child of legal age, sibling or it can be any person who can provide proof that he or she is acting on the behalf of any of the persons mentioned above. Fifty years after the year of death, the information about the cause of death becomes public and can already be accessed by anyone who wishes to.

Requirements for death records requests include complete name of the deceased person, gender, date of death which may include series of years to be searched, city or county of death, social security number if known and information about you as the requestor such as full name, relation to decedent if you are requesting for "cause of death", phone number where you can be reached, funeral director or attorney's professional license number if they are ordering the death certificate. You must also include in your application of request a copy of a valid ID picture. The processing time for your request is normally three to five business days, the first day being the day your request was received. Although the state accepts rush requests, the most that they can give you is three working days. An additional fee of $10 is needed for rush requests. In this modern day, Internet is the trend. If you need a faster, more efficient and practical way of obtaining death records in Florida, you should hire the services of independent online record providers. These providers have an online database that can be accessed anytime of the day, seven days a week.

With the world's rapidly advancing technology, things have been made easier for mankind. With the Internet as the trend, even acquiring death records have been made easy too. Hence, if you want to have a more efficient and practical way of obtaining such records, you can actually hire the services of several online record providers. What's good about trying their service is that you don't need to worry about paying them for each request. You just have to pay a minimal fee and you can access unlimited records for free. More so, instead of a turnaround of three to five business days, you can get the death record that you want in minutes.

Having a death record of an ancestor handy does not only help you identify contributing factors to the family's wellness including diseases but also, it can actually provide you details such as who bought and sold a certain property, who was related to who and other significant things. Undeniably, death notices are simple yet very essential tool in so many areas. One of which is genealogy research as these records document the death of an individual, the reason of the death, who that person was related to, where he lived, siblings, parents and even other relatives.




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