Death certificates from Missouri and West Virginia

From Sandy.

Please note that Missouri and West Virginia have fantastic websites where you can find death certificates.  We have been reviewing over 600 names of veterans and children in Project 1 who died in one of these states and who do not have death causes entered in the screens.  We are finding death certificates for almost all of them.   The sites are:

• Missouri Digital Heritage (for deaths between 1910 - 1966)  Link

• West Virginia (for deaths between 1853 - 1963) Link

Please use these death sources when you have deaths in one of these states.  

You may have noticed these sites sometimes linked to Ancestry or Family Search.  I have noticed that some people used the link from Ancestry which connects to the Missouri Digital Heritage site, but they apparently did not use the site to find the death certificate (and the cause).  Please click the link (see the example below) and fill out the information in the search fields using the death date and information from the indexed portion.  This will take you to the image of the death certificate.