lundi 27 octobre 2014

Free Death Records Available Online

By Claire Dowell


The state of Alabama is an open state which means that the local residents of the state can easily obtain or access their personal files whenever they need it. This includes the death records of the state. With such document becoming public, the family members of the deceased would have no problems in getting the document to be used in important transactions.

The immediate family members of the deceased should have the death certificate of the deceased to process any insurance claim. Without this document, request may not be processed with ease and the benefit may not be released to the family. Death records in the state of Alabama are also used in conducting genealogy research. It is used as one of the references in documenting events in the family record. Also, the death certificate of the deceased is necessary if the spouse, who is still alive, wants to marry again. This is one of the requirements needed when processing marriage especially for widowed individuals.

Death records in Alabama have a lot of information on it. It would not be a public document without some personal information of the deceased. The document would contain the real name of the individual who died along with the details about his/her birth such as the date and place where the person was born. One would also find the deceased person's residence address on the document. The highlight of the document is the information that is related to the person's death such as the place and the date when the person died as well as the cause of death.

Deaths that have been registered since January 1908 are the only documents that can be requested in the state of Alabama. A processing fee of $15 is needed to have a copy of the needed document. Also, the record is only given or released to the immediate family members of the deceased, more importantly if the record has not yet reached 25 years since the record was generated.

One has to visit the office of the Vital Records Section located in Montgomery, Alabama to get any public records of the state. This is also the place where one can get a copy of a death certificate that has been issued in Alabama. If going to the office is not possible, one can also visit the office of the county clerk where the death was registered and obtain the document from there.

Requesting for a copy of Alabama public death records is now easier compared to the time when there was no Internet. With the use of the Internet, searching for the records is as easy as 1-2-3. One simply has to log on to a certain website that offer to do the search, then input the necessary information needed and the results of the search re displayed in just a few seconds. Unlike the traditional method where one has to go to the office to file the request, with this, as long as there is Internet connection the document can be obtained conveniently.




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