If I want to create a genealogy, how would I acquire the necessary death certifi

Question:

If I want to create a genealogy, how would I acquire the necessary death certificates?

(of great grandmothers, grandfathers, etc...)..... location??? cost to acquire them???

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Death certificates cost anywhere from $5 to $20 depending on the state and/or county. Some states don't let you have them unless you are a relative, to prevent terrorists from mis-using the data to construct a false ID. You buy copies from the county clerk in the USA. In Australia you buy them from th eprovincial department of health. The French don't use them.

Social Security Death Indexes, cemetery records, funeral home records, church records, obituaries and cemetery transcriptions will all work for genealogy purposes. Rootsweb has partial death data for California, Texas and Maine on-line. There is an entire UK web site devoted to free BMD data.

Without a time period and a country, your question is impossible to answer. If you are 80 and the child of a long line of men who had second families in their 60's, your GGF could have been
born (80 + 60 + 60 + 60) 240 years ago. His granite tombstone would be so eroded you'd never be able to read it.