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It may seem a little odd to go looking for a death record, but it all depends on the context. There are two primary reasons you would need such information; genealogy and insurance. For the purposes of genealogy, death certificates are a great place to start digging into family history. In the case of an insurance claim, death certificates are often necessary as proof before an insurance company will pay. Getting a death certificate is a reasonably easy thing, if you have the correct data.

Insurance Claims
Although the last thing you want to do when confronted with the death of a loved one is deal with an insurance company, you need to remember to get a legal certificate of death from the doctor or courts. Insurance companies aren’t in business to pay out, and if your loved one had a life insurance policy, no company will write you a check until they see a certificate of death. The strict adherence to this policy comes from insurance companies getting stung in fraudulent situations.

Not only do people claim to have died to get money, people will pretend to have connections to the deceased even when they don’t in order to get a settlement. It is unfortunate that a few dishonest individuals have made things so much harder for the truthful, but that is the situation. In the case of an undetermined cause of death the insurance company can delay payment of benefits as well, so try to keep your doctor from writing that on a death certificate if you can.

Genealogy
A death record can be a wonderful source of information, even if at first it doesn’t seem that way. One of the best things about these documents is that they list an accurate birth date and that means you can put in a request for an original copy of a birth certificate. While the death certificate itself doesn’t necessarily gain you much extended information it is a doorway to much more. You can check local papers for the days after a death for an obituary that garners you more names of relatives, use the birth certificate to track a maternal line, and make connections with relatives that you didn’t know about before.

One of the best ways to access a death certificate, especially if you don’t have all the data, is to go online and utilize one of the many search services available. For a modest fee they will dig up not only death records but also any other available document about the person you are investigating. Go ahead and give it a try, it is well worth your time.

New Orleans, La. Italian Familes Death Records 1839-1999

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