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obtaining a death record
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Fri, 9 Apr 2004 07:16:02 -0400
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Please check out the link below to the Virginia Department of Health's policy on vital records.

http://www.vdh.state.va.us/vitalrec/gene.asp

Vital records in Virginia, by state law, are available to the public only after a specified period of time. For death certificates, it's 50 years. For birth certificates, it's 100 years. Before that, vital records are available only to the immediate family. "Immediate family" means son, daughter, brother, sister, mother, father. But not aunt, uncle, neice, nephew, grandchild.

If possible, ask one of your grandmother's immediate family to request the death certificate.

Donald W. Moore, CGRS
Virginia Beach, Virginia

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