Thursday 23 October 2014

Death Record Alabama Now Available Online

By Claire Dowell


Alabama death records have been made available to the public since the state became an open state. The family members of the deceased would have fewer burdens with it being public since they can easily get the document and use it in processing a lot of 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.

In the state of Alabama, only records which have been registered since January 1908 are available. Retrieval of the document means that one has to pay a $15 fee to proceed with the request. The immediate family members of the late individual are the only ones who are allowed to obtain a copy of the document. This is even truer if the document has not yet reached 25 years in the archive.

One can obtain a copy of the death certificate of their deceased family member by going to the office of the Vital Records in Alabama. The office is situated at Montgomery. If going to the state office is way too far and impossible, one can also obtain a copy of the document through the office of the county clerk.

With the advancement of technology, obtaining a copy of Alabama public death records is now very easy and convenient. There is no need to go to any office to file the request since it can be done even at home as long as there is Internet connection. By going to the website that offers such service and typing in the information of the record that is being requested, the search can be easily done and the record can be obtained in just a few seconds.




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