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iambrutus

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    • We have lived in our house for about 1 1/2 years now, and just met the neighbor directly beside us. He tells us that he has been battling depression for 3 1/2 years and is just now coming out of it, so this is why we have never seen him outside very much, ect. But he also told me something strange that i didn't know. He told me that the people that had the house before us (orginal owners) had many kids, and one of them (the oldest son) shot himself in the back yard! This could have happened anywhere from 1972-2003, where is the best place to begin researching if this is true?

    I know that library's have old news papers on microfilm, but i wouldn't know where to even start to search for this. Are death certificates public information?
     
    Man, that's a good question. For some reason, I thought that a death at the property had to be declared...kind of like termite and flood declarations. Probably not though. Just my imagination. If it were a shooting, you might be able to check with the police station. They might be able to pull up a record of the incident.
     
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    ArtilleryBuck said:
    Man, that's a good question. For some reason, I thought that a death at the property had to be declared...kind of like termite and flood declarations. Probably not though. Just my imagination. If it were a shooting, you might be able to check with the police station. They might be able to pull up a record of the incident.
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    i have been told that recently (past 6 months or so) it has been changed that any thing along those lines must be declared, before that it was if you asked, they had to tell you, needless to say, we didn't ask

    my big challenge is that i dont know when it occurred.
     
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    Is this your house?

    amityville_house.jpg
     
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    All death records are typically available for view, genealogical research gets your foot in the door. Your source will be the Registrar of Births & Deaths in your county.

    One only needs a "creative" or legitimate reason in the event that a copy of the death certificate is being requested.

    The prior owners surname is of course on the transfer / sales documents for the house, and will also be available in the county auditors database. Armed with that information it should be a simple task to back-track to the date on which the son died. Armed with that date any police blotter data may be found in the Vindicator or similar local rags.

    In the event that the Youngstown registrar (Mahoning county?) puts up blocks you can always get this done by one of the online record search services -- for a fee.

    (See that in Mahoning County its a different organization title - City of Youngstown Vital Statistics Office, Located at the Renaissance
    Center on Oak Hill Ave.)
     
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    I'm not sure I would even want to know/confirm something like that. Ignorance is bliss and all that type of jazz. I wouldn't think that it would be suicide if it was done in the back yard though (unless it was in a shed or something). Sounds like an accident.
     
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    sandgk said:
    All death records are typically available for view, genealogical research gets your foot in the door. Your source will be the Registrar of Births & Deaths in your county.

    One only needs a "creative" or legitimate reason in the event that a copy of the death certificate is being requested.

    The prior owners surname is of course on the transfer / sales documents for the house, and will also be available in the county auditors database. Armed with that information it should be a simple task to back-track to the date on which the son died. Armed with that date any police blotter data may be found in the Vindicator or similar local rags.

    In the event that the Youngstown registrar (Mahoning county?) puts up blocks you can always get this done by one of the online record search services -- for a fee.

    (See that in Mahoning County its a different organization title - City of Youngstown Vital Statistics Office, Located at the Renaissance
    Center on Oak Hill Ave.)
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    thank you, this should provide me a good start

    gregorylee said:
    I'm not sure I would even want to know/confirm something like that. Ignorance is bliss and all that type of jazz. I wouldn't think that it would be suicide if it was done in the back yard though (unless it was in a shed or something). Sounds like an accident.
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    most of the time ignorance is bliss, except when now i'm not 100% sure that i believe the crazy guy that lives beside me, so i really want to know.

    the back yard is wooded, so it wouldn't suprise me if it was suicide
     
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