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Death Record Online Request Information. Our office records and maintains death records in Los Angeles County since 1877. Online death record requests are processed through VitalChek Network, Inc. VitalChek accepts the following credit cards: MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover.
California Death Records. Access essential information and services for obtaining death records across California. Find resources to request certified death certificates, search death records online, and verify records through official channels.
The autopsy is designed to determine the cause of death, properly document findings, and collect evidence. A primary objective is to try to reconstruct the circumstances and events that led to the death so that a mode (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, or undetermined) can be established.
An AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY of a death record may be required to obtain death benefits, claim insurance proceeds, notify social security and obtain other services related to an individual’s identity.
The California Department of Public Health – Vital Records (CDPH-VR) maintains a permanent, public record of every death that has occurred in California since July 1905. Requesting a Certified Copy. Electronic Submission. Mail-In Request. VS 112 - Application for Certified Copy of Death Record (PDF)
The Family History Library has been digitizing vital records, and they have several for Los Angeles County available for free online. Here, for example, is how you can find a death certificate: Get the death place and date information from an index first (see resources above for this)
We maintain records of deaths that occurred in Los Angeles County, except for Long Beach and Pasadena, for the current year and prior year. Death certificates are available 10 days after the original certificate has been registered.
