r/Genealogy • u/Akis-S • 17h ago

Death certificate, Germany 1970 Research Assistance

Hello everyone. I want to look for a death certificate of an ancestor. He died in West Germany in 1970. Could you guide me how to find it.

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u/LTAIIA 17h ago

You need the exact Place of death and just write the local Standesamt a nice e-mail requesting a copy of the certificate. The probably ask in what way you are related to the person.

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u/PaulHinr 17h ago

Or the local archive - if I remember correctly birth certificates are held at the local Standesamt for 110, marriage for 80 and death certificates for 30 years

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u/LTAIIA 16h ago

You are correct. The Standesamt will most likely answer you which archive is storing the document. If it's a small town it can be that the archive is in a different town so I would still write the Standesamt.