Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Canada - Birth And Death Records

By Claire Dowell


In the event of an individual's passing, a death certificate is filed at the provincial office where the event occurred. This is where requesters can access death reports and other vital information. Each of the Canadian provinces and territories has different policies in place when it comes to disseminating Canada death records and other public documents. If you want to acquire a family member's death report, you will need to contact the local provincial office where the event has taken place. It is crucial that the requester knows which Canadian province or territory the event occurred, so he can correctly communicate with the appropriate government agency.

If you have a relative, or an immediate family member, who has passed away in one of the Canadian provinces and you wish to acquire a certified copy of the death certificate, visiting the right government website may just provide you with the appropriate information on how to proceed to obtaining the legal documents you need. Every province from Alberta to Saskatchewan has vital statistics offices that the general public can get in touch with to order certified copies of birth certificates, death reports, and other public accounts. Provincial websites are accessible online, which contains important links and portals that will direct you to the province's vital statistics agency page.

In Canada, access to certified copies of death registrations is only reserved for the closest living relative of the deceased. Although, family doctors and physicians taking care of the surviving family members may obtain a copy of the death report for additional information and reference purposes. Death records are only opened to the general public twenty years after the fact. Access to more recent death registrations will require you to present a notarized consent from the next of kin or a court order granting you permission to obtain the said document.

In certain situations where the deceased's cause of death is required, you will need to acquire a certified copy of the death report. However in some transactions, the cause of death may not be necessary at all. For instance, if you are tasked with tracking a certain family genealogy, a basic death report will certainly be enough to substantiate your research. On the other hand, if you need a death certificate for legal purposes, then a certified copy of the document will most definitely be required.

But as effective as these certified government information services can be, the convenience and practicality that many privately run record search websites can offer are way more tempting to ordinary Joes and most adept researchers. Many of the online record providers these days have an extensive collection of public documents from every location in the US and Canada, stored in databases that are easily accessible though the Internet.

So instead of performing basic obituary searches to gather data for your research, why not try out a decent online record search service? For a small one-time fee, you will have access to an inclusive database of vital records. Not just of deaths, but of births, marriages, and divorces as well.




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