I want to order a death certificate, but I don't know the year or county.
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Try using some online tools to find the information you need to order an Ohio Death Certificate.
Use our online Death Certificate Search. Creative search strategies, such as using wildcard characters (?, *) can help discover names that may have been misspelled. Searching a particular year and county can help discover all the certificates issued that year in that county. Clicking on the categories at the top will sort the results.
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. Use the See More Memorials option to find people with the same surnames buried in the cemetery, city or county.
The Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018 on Ancestry.com includes the Ohio Department of Health's index to death certificates. If you have a subscription to Ancestry.com, or your local library provides access to the library edition of Ancestry, you can search this database.
The Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 on FamilySearch.org is also an index of deaths from the Ohio Department of Health.
An obituary or death notice published in a local newspaper may include information such as date and place of death. Here is a list of some popular Ohio Obituary Indexes.
Visit our vital records research guide to learn more about death records in Ohio.