dimanche 16 février 2014

Florida Death Notices

By Ben Kingsley


More often than not, when people do a genealogy research about their ancestors, they head in a beeline for other significant information such as the individual's marriage and birth while they skip right past the death record. Today, one might not be able to conjure up in his mind how on earth a death record can possibly help the living. However, people often forget to think that this simple and seemingly irrelevant record can actually bring light some essential information for the descendants of the deceased. Probably one of the most important information such record can provide is the cause of death. With today's people's knowledge of genetic disorders, the mere fact than an ancestor may have succumbed to death from a hereditary disease is very significant. Florida death records not only state the cause of death, but may also include any contributing factors.

Florida's primary repository of vital records is the Bureau of Vital Statistics, which operates under the Department of Health. All birth and death records from 1917 to present can be accessed from this office. Each record is worth $5. To obtain a death record in Florida, one of the best ways is to mail the Vital Statistics office. Another is to make a formal request for death records by calling or visiting the office. Such information is also available through other sources. One of which is to go to the County clerk's offices to find local records for those prior to 1917 in the state. More often than not, Florida death certificates that are obtained from local county health organizations can actually be more informative than death registrations as these certificates contain more information such as information of the next kin, cause of death and other important details.

Typically, anyone in Florida can request for a death certificate without a cause of death. On the contrary, death certificates indicating the cause of death of the decedent are strictly private and can only be disclosed to eligible people. People who can obtain death certificates with cause of death are the decedent's family, the spouse, parent, child of legal age, sibling. Additionally, anyone who has documentations that prove that he or she is acting on the behalf of the persons named above can also request for a death record containing the cause of death information. Moreover, fifty years after the decedent's death, his or her death record including the information about the cause of death becomes public and is already accessible by anyone who wants to.

If you need to obtain Florida death records faster, then you need to have all the requirements on hand. Requirements include the full name of the deceased, sex, date of death, county of death, social security number if known, and you information as the one requesting for the record. That consists of your complete name, your relation to the decedent if you want to know the cause of death, your phone number where the office of the Vital Statistics can reach you, the funeral director or attorney's professional license number if they are ordering the death certificate. Usually, the processing time for the record to be issued is three to five business days. However, if you want to acquire it fast, you can request it to be rushed but you are going to pay an additional $10.

In this contemporary world, acquiring records such as these can be a piece of cake especially with the help of the Internet. If you want to obtain death records fast and easily, you can try the services of independent online record providers. No worries because these providers have their own online database that can be reached anytime of the day, seven days a week. What gives them an edge over the traditional way of obtaining a death record is that, instead of acquiring the death record in three or five business days, you can have it in just a couple of minutes. What more, you only need to pay a minimal fee once and you can now have unlimited access to their database. Records are public and you can access these anytime without having to worry about being charged.

Knowing these death notices will not only help you track genetic predisposing factors about the family's health and diseases, but also help you with details such as who bought and sold property, who was related to who and other things. Indeed, these records provide a simple and yet important tool. They document the death of an individual, the cause of death, who that individual was related to as well as where he lived. Siblings, parents, children and even other relatives are on these documents as well. For many people, these records are very rich in information and can be an ideal search choice for genealogy research.




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