Date of Death lookup please
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Re: Date of Death lookup please
You can try a couple of things.
For Louise since you know her month and year of death, you could contact the Providence Public Library, Reference Services for a copy of her obit from the major statewide newspaper for the area, The Providence Journal. An obit would probably mention when, in relation to the obit, the person died and from that you could figure out the date.
There is a fee for this but it is much less than what a DC would cost from Vital Records at the RI Health Dept. where the cost was recently increased to $20 per certificate.
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Photocopies from microfilm of the Providence Journal from the beginning in the 1800's to the present:
(1983 - present on line at ProQuest with a RI Library card)
Providence Public Library Reference Services
150 Empire Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Phone:401-455-8005.
Main number is 401-455-8000.
http://www.provlib.org/default.html
Email at pplref@provlib.org
The last time I checked, the costs were a $5 service fee with a charge of $0.20 per page for copies. You make your request with names and dates, they do a look-up and let you know what they found. Because they had a problem with sending the copies to people but never receiving payment, now before they will do the copy you will have to send the $5 and the cost for however many pages of copies they've said your information is contained on. (Before Belo Corp. took over the Providence Journal, there were the traditional obits on one page and there could be a larger personal bio on an adjoining page so at least 2 pages of obit information is possible.)
If you order your obits, wedding announcements, etc.directly from the Providence Journal all you will get for your money is a transcript of the information. You will miss out on any photographs that might have accompanied the obit or article and it will cost you approximately the same amount of moneys getting the copies pulled from the microfilm of the actual page done by the Providence Public Library.
The RI State Archives will hold the death reports/certificates for deaths 1957 and older. They are understaffed but did take requests via email and also charge a small fee.
RI STATE ARCHIVES:
Rhode Island State Archives
337 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Telephone: (401) 222-2353
Fax: (401) 222-3199
Email: reference@sec.state.ri.us
Web: www.state.ri.us/archives/ ~~website is poorly designed and pretty much useless from a genealogy point of view.
Open to the public Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Deaths from about 1856 to 1957. Births and marriages from about 1856 to 1907. On 1 Jan of each year, another year's records are released so 1957/1907 will increase to 1958/1908 on 1 Jan 2009. Anything which falls after 1957/1907 must be obtained from the RI Health Dept. / Vital Records.
Archives also has RI State Censuses done on the "5" years from 1865 - 1935 with the exception of 1895 which is MIA.
You could try and make a virtual visit to the gravesite by posting the burial information in the database for whatever cemetery they are buried in and requesting a photo, which hopefully some volunteer will go go out, take and then post to the burial info. If the particular cemetery your Kayser"s are located in isn't in the Find A Grave database, you could still enter their burials by starting a database for the cemetery with the Kayser"s as the first two entries. The site for this is Find A Grave.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cs
I wasn't sure if by "Brayton" you meant the name of the cemetery or a geographic place....there are lots of little areas in RI that are known by the locals by specific names applicable only to the small, local geographic area within the bigger setting of a town. For example, in North Providence where there are quite a few of my husband's ancestors you will hear about Lymansville, Fruit Hill, Marieville, Centerdale, Mineral Spring, etc. All are little, specific areas within the town of North Providence, RI.
I did a quick check of the RI Cemeteries Transcription site and found your Kayser"s in Warwick Historical Cemetery #34 which is called Brayton Cemetery - answering my question regarding Brayton - and is, no doubt where you got your death years and cemetery name from. The Brayton Cemetery, Warwick Historical #34, is in the Find A Grave database so you can easily enter your Kayser"s and request a photo.
Hope some of this helps.
For Louise since you know her month and year of death, you could contact the Providence Public Library, Reference Services for a copy of her obit from the major statewide newspaper for the area, The Providence Journal. An obit would probably mention when, in relation to the obit, the person died and from that you could figure out the date.
There is a fee for this but it is much less than what a DC would cost from Vital Records at the RI Health Dept. where the cost was recently increased to $20 per certificate.
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Photocopies from microfilm of the Providence Journal from the beginning in the 1800's to the present:
(1983 - present on line at ProQuest with a RI Library card)
Providence Public Library Reference Services
150 Empire Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Phone:401-455-8005.
Main number is 401-455-8000.
http://www.provlib.org/default.html
Email at pplref@provlib.org
The last time I checked, the costs were a $5 service fee with a charge of $0.20 per page for copies. You make your request with names and dates, they do a look-up and let you know what they found. Because they had a problem with sending the copies to people but never receiving payment, now before they will do the copy you will have to send the $5 and the cost for however many pages of copies they've said your information is contained on. (Before Belo Corp. took over the Providence Journal, there were the traditional obits on one page and there could be a larger personal bio on an adjoining page so at least 2 pages of obit information is possible.)
If you order your obits, wedding announcements, etc.directly from the Providence Journal all you will get for your money is a transcript of the information. You will miss out on any photographs that might have accompanied the obit or article and it will cost you approximately the same amount of moneys getting the copies pulled from the microfilm of the actual page done by the Providence Public Library.
The RI State Archives will hold the death reports/certificates for deaths 1957 and older. They are understaffed but did take requests via email and also charge a small fee.
RI STATE ARCHIVES:
Rhode Island State Archives
337 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Telephone: (401) 222-2353
Fax: (401) 222-3199
Email: reference@sec.state.ri.us
Web: www.state.ri.us/archives/ ~~website is poorly designed and pretty much useless from a genealogy point of view.
Open to the public Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Deaths from about 1856 to 1957. Births and marriages from about 1856 to 1907. On 1 Jan of each year, another year's records are released so 1957/1907 will increase to 1958/1908 on 1 Jan 2009. Anything which falls after 1957/1907 must be obtained from the RI Health Dept. / Vital Records.
Archives also has RI State Censuses done on the "5" years from 1865 - 1935 with the exception of 1895 which is MIA.
You could try and make a virtual visit to the gravesite by posting the burial information in the database for whatever cemetery they are buried in and requesting a photo, which hopefully some volunteer will go go out, take and then post to the burial info. If the particular cemetery your Kayser"s are located in isn't in the Find A Grave database, you could still enter their burials by starting a database for the cemetery with the Kayser"s as the first two entries. The site for this is Find A Grave.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cs
I wasn't sure if by "Brayton" you meant the name of the cemetery or a geographic place....there are lots of little areas in RI that are known by the locals by specific names applicable only to the small, local geographic area within the bigger setting of a town. For example, in North Providence where there are quite a few of my husband's ancestors you will hear about Lymansville, Fruit Hill, Marieville, Centerdale, Mineral Spring, etc. All are little, specific areas within the town of North Providence, RI.
I did a quick check of the RI Cemeteries Transcription site and found your Kayser"s in Warwick Historical Cemetery #34 which is called Brayton Cemetery - answering my question regarding Brayton - and is, no doubt where you got your death years and cemetery name from. The Brayton Cemetery, Warwick Historical #34, is in the Find A Grave database so you can easily enter your Kayser"s and request a photo.
Hope some of this helps.