Accessing Online California Death Records

By Claire Dowell


State of California Death Records are under the safekeeping of the California Department of Public Health Office. Requests for the files can be directed to the office as well. If you want to obtain death files in other states, you will have to wait several years because only then will they become available to the public. In California, you can get them as soon as they are finalized.

There are two types of records that can be obtained from the public health office: informational records and authorized records. They both contain the basic pieces of information of a death file, however, the former only serves to inform about the details of a person's death, while the latter can be used as a legal document in any legal event that requires it. Moreover, only immediate relatives, such as the wife, husband, sibling, mother, father, and children have the right to obtain authorized death records. It is easy to spot if it is an informational copy because it has a "not a valid document for identity" text placed right across the page.

Any individual has the right to access the records as long as proper procedures are observed. A request form must be filled out correctly, including your own contact details and some information about the deceased. Once the request form is filled-out, it should be submitted back to the public health office along with a government-issued ID and the appropriate fee. If you are requesting for an authorized copy of the records, you need to include a sworn statement. All fees paid are non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the search.

Requesting the death documents from the Public Health office is a pretty lengthy process. The fastest you can get them is 2 weeks and the longest is 10 weeks. However, if you can accurately supply the exact year and country where the divorce took place, you will have a high chance of getting the documents sooner. You can also obtain the documents directly from the exact county that finalized the divorced. The office keeps death files that are from the year 1905 up to today, if you are not aware of the exact year and county of the divorce, you can seek the assistance of the office.

Death records can also be obtained from online service providers. There are several you can find on the Internet but before jumping on one service provider, make sure that you do a quick background check on a few of them . Try to find out if they are a reliable source of information or not. To initiate a search, you just need to supply at least the full name of the deceased.

Online search tools are either fee-based or for free. Fee-based search tools are able to provide an in-depth version of the death files. Search tools that offer Death Records Free Search can get you just the basic pieces of information. To show respect to the family of a dead person, the cause of death is usually not disclosed except to the immediate family.




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