Missouri Death Certificates Now Online
By Ole • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: RepositoryThe Missouri Death Certificate Database containing over 2.1 million death certificates was placed online one year before its scheduled completion, according to Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office.
Researchers have immediate, free access to online images of Missouri death certificates over 50 years old, including those of famous Missourians like author Laura Ingalls Wilder, musician and composer John William “Blind” Boone, outlaw Frank James and political boss Tom Pendergast. Family historians, biographers, and other researchers can use these death certificates to discover key information about an ancestor or important historical figure, including occupation, burial site, birthplace, and the names of an individual’s parents and spouse.
Over 600 students and volunteers from across the United States and other countries spent 32,810 hours preparing certificates for scanning and entering data into the index. The Missouri Death Certificate Database is online
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Failed to find myself listed. I was born in Gregory Landing, Clatk Cty on 19 Feb. 1917 to Richard and Mary Davis.
Willard,
I don’t believe that post-1910 birth records are available for downloading the way the death certificates are. This page explains the records: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/#search and http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/bdrecords.asp SOME pre-1910 birth records are available and death certificates between 1910 and 1957 are available.
Patti
Looking for my McCaskill family line do you have any?? thanks Lillian
Thank you!! I found my husband’s sister and brother. I knew his sister’s name, but not his brother’s. My mother-in-law had told me that she had other children. I did not know exact birth or death dates, but using your website I found them. I put in year dates about the time I thought might be when they were born/died. I found them easily. Thank you!!
Cassie Jarrett
In researching my ancestor’s I’ve downloaded 42 different death certificates and have a major boost in proving a relative for SAR membership. This tool has provided so many leads that I can’t say enough good things. The State of Missouri organized a grand effort and many genealogists have reaped the benefits so far!
Thanks again!
Mike