Public Records: Harry Houdini’s Death Certificate Among New Michigan Records Searchable Online
From MLive.com:
It’s pretty well known that stunt performer Harry Houdini died in Detroit on Halloween in 1926 after developing complications from getting punched in the stomach.
If you want to see his death certificate for yourself, it’s among 2.6 million such documents now searchable online at the Archives of Michigan, which this week made available death certificates from the years 1921 to 1939.
The certificates join others from 1897 to 1920 that were previously posted online.
From the Michigan Historical Center:
The index for records from 1940-1952 will be made available in the next few weeks, with additional certificate images to be released each year as privacy restrictions are lifted; for example, 1940 images will be released in January 2016. Together with the records from 1897-1920 that have been available here for years, this collection makes Seeking Michigan the one-stop destination for more than 2.6 million free, publicly-available 20th century death records for your Michigan ancestors.
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If you’re already used to searching Seeking Michigan’s earlier death records collection, the new collection will seem very familiar. You can search up to four different data fields at once, and instructions for searching can be found here. You can search both collections at once by selecting both of them in the menu that drops down when you click the advanced search button at the top of every page on Seeking Michigan.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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