Link: SOS, Missouri - State Archives: Birth and Death Records. If you are a family genealogist with research that needs to be done in Missouri, this is a "must see" site. I have used it several times to check for death reacords, and in one case, I uncovered a family mystery.
One of my Great aunts had migrated to Missouri from Tennessee using the name Myra Yates. I knew the date that she died, and so I did a search for her death record. What came back was two names, with the same death dates. BUT the names were not Myra Yates, but rather Deborah Yates. That was her grandmother's name. So who had given the information, and was her real name Deborah and not Myra. In earlier census records I had found Myra's name in TN and she was called other names too, such as what I knew was to be her middle name. Genealogy can be very confusing without the documentation.
If you are looking for death certificates in other states, you might try doing a Google search for the words death records state archives or you might try death certificates state archives
Illinois has a very good database as well. Here is one for Maine.
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