Wisconsin Death Records

There are a number of reasons why death records like Wisconsin Death Records are requested for by people, but often the reason for the request is because the death records are the best records that could be presented in order to prove the death of the decedent. This is because these are the official records, and as the official records, they are afforded great respect when it comes to the contents of the records. so much so that some jurisdictions would consider the fact that the official recording agency had certified the existence of the record as conclusive proof that the person whose name appears on the record had indeed died.

To understand the importance of Wisconsin Death Notices, one must first understand the effect that death would have upon the community that the deceased belonged to. A dead person, certainly, could not enter into a contract, or at least one that is enforceable and any contract that he had entered into while he was still alive would have to be terminated because it had already become unenforceable. This does not mean that the party who is still alive could no longer claim under the same contract, it is just that he or she would have to make good his claims against the deceased some other way, and often, the presentation of the death notices is important in order to open the estate settlement proceedings which would be the proper venue for such actions.

Copies of Wisconsin Death Certificates are available at the state level and at the local level. At the state level, the search would be conducted at the Vital Records Services of the Wisconsin Department of Health where the search may be affected either by sending a request letter or by making the request in person. Both would have their own set of advantages and disadvantages, with the former being faster than the latter despite requiring the person who desires the record to travel to the actual office to make his or her request there. Either way, the required fee would be twenty dollars for every record that would be requested.

Before a search for Public Social Security Death Records could be affected, however, one must remember that there are two types of records at the state level, the certified and the informational copy. The latter could not be used for identification purposes, but are available to the general public while the former would contain more information regarding the deceased but could only be requested for by those who are related to the deceased as restricted by law.

If the objective in obtaining the death record is merely to make sure that the person had already died to satisfy the curiosity of the searcher, and for other non-official purposes, then the best resource that one could use would be online databases. These internet based databases are faster, more efficient and cheaper because most of them would charge only the most minimum of fees for the use of their services. Of course, as they are non-official sources, the information obtained from them could not be used for official purposes.

Follow the procedure given below when requesting for death records via mail.

• – Obtain the necessary request form and accomplish the same.
• – Determine your required fee and make a money order or personal check to answer for the same before attaching the money order or personal check to the accomplished form.
• – Make a copy of one of the required identification cards and attach it to the accomplished form.
• – Send the form and all other attachments as may be required to the vital records office for processing.
• – Wait for the office to finish processing your request

Wisconsin Death Certificates

The following links should be of some assistance in case of questions

• – State of Wisconsin
• – Wisconsin Department of Health
• – Vital Records Services
• – Requesting
• – Forms
• – Local Offices
• – Milwaukee County
• – Dane County
• – Waukesha County
• – National Center for Health Statistics