What is the best online site(s) to view and/or buy vital statistics?

Looking for a good site to research online documents, especially death and birth certificates nationwide. Thank you.

What is the best online site(s) to view and/or buy vital statistics?
Are you asking this question from the USA, if you are there are a few sites that have these documents so I am told, but I am in the UK and I can say for certain there is nothing like that in the UK. I have a link to the one site I have used in the USA http://historyresearch.utah.gov/guides/d... it's brilliant.


Hope this helps.
Reply:There is a group for Kentucky vitals at www.rootsweb.com that will attempt to interpret Death Certificates of Kentuckians. The group is called Decipher.





Now, if you're talking about the united states as a whole, ancestry.com is probably your best bet to attempt to view bc/dc's. They also have a pretty good collection of WW1 and WW2 draft registrations.





For BC/DC's, you can also try individual state's vital records departments. I know if you have a relative who lived/died in TN, you can email vital records to have them do a search for a delayed birth certificate. If they find it, they will let you know what the charge is for getting a copy to you.





Other places, might be Yahoo and Google Images. I've found quite a few images through them of many vital records documents that were embedded in family websites.





www.findagrave.com might also have links to family vital records or the families might actually post a picture of a vital records at the grave of their loved one. Some even post the loved one's obituary.





Any of the photo housing sites such as flicker house a good many vital records that family members have posted. Try Flicker and Snapfish and any of the other photo sites by putting your surname in the search box.





Of course, there's nothing like family to give you copies of documents so try them also.





Good luck!
Reply:I have never heard of such and I have done plenty of genealogy research. I would be surprised if there is such a site, but If there is, the documents would have to be of people who are long, long dead. My vital stats is not public information, so you cannot go on-line to get it. Not every thing is open to the general public as free information that anyone is entitled to. Many such documents are protected by privacy laws, and are provided only in a need-to-know basis, like a legal investigation; or only to the immediate family, or direct descendants of individuals. And, even if the information was available to just anybody, who is going to do the work to put it all on the internet? It is not financially beneficial to the Dept. of Vital Statistics or Dept. of Health to spend countless man-hours, and dollars to put all that on the internet for free to everyone else.





If such a site does exist for such records of people who are long deceased, I would like to know too, so I can use it in my own genealogy research. It would make the research a lot easier!