Arizona Releases Huge Birth, Death Certificate Archive

The State of Arizona's Department of Health Services, Arizona State Library, and the Mesa Family History Library have teamed up to provide a database of more than 400,000 images of birth certificates (between 1887 and 1928) and death certificates (between 1878 and 1953) at http://genealogy.az.gov . Search and retrieval are both free, though this site warns that these are not certified copies.

At the site you may search by name, span of years, and county. Certificates are in tables which include type (birth is blue-lettered,death is red) name, birth and death date (for the death certificates, just birth for the birth certificates), mother and father (for the birth certificates) and county.

Click on the name and you'll get a PDF of the birth/death certificate -- though, as it's noted, non-certified. If you've ever done genealogy research you know how these are; some of them are handwritten (and are or aren't easy to read) and some of them are typewritten.

I don't know many famous Arizonans, but I looked for and didn't find Billy Clanton or either of the McLaury brothers. I *did* find CS Fly, though his death certificate had very little information on it.

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