Alabama Death Certificates

Ordering Alabama Death Certificates Online

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General Information on Ordering Alabama Death Certificates

The Alabama Center for Health Statistics began filing death certificates in 1908 for persons who died in Alabama.

By Alabama law, death certificates are confidential records with restricted access for 25 years from the date of death. Death certificates more than 25 years old may be obtained by anyone upon payment of the proper fee. Death certificates less than 25 years old may be obtained by the following persons, upon payment of the proper fee:

• Mother/Father of Person Named on Certificate
• Husband/Wife of Person Named on Certificate
• Son/Daughter of Person Named on Certificate
• Grandchildren of Person Named on Certificate
• Sister/Brother of Person Named on Certificate
• Legal Representative of Family or Estate Informant Listed on Death Certificate as Providing Information

Information for Genealogists

For assistance with your family history research, please do not contact the State of Alabama. Instead please refer to the following websites for help:

• Alabama Birth, Marriage and Death Records - online databases of primary records.

• Alabama Adoption Registry - for help with locating adoptees and birth families from Alabama.

• Alabama Obituaries - find obituaries from Alabama newspapers.

• Social Security Death Index - National database of deaths dating back to the 1940's.