How do I find online death certtificates/burial records for 1920s Philadelphia?
Assuming she was Catholic you might write the Chancery Office of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and see if they have a death record on her. Just send them a little donation for their effort. In our diocese periodically the baptismal, first communion, confirmation, marriage and death registers are sent by parishes to the Chancery to be microfilmed. You are extremely lucky to have found those letters. Hold on to them and have them laminated to preserve them and after doing a lot of family research go back and read them again and you might see things in them that don’t register as all that important now which will help you break through a brick wall in your research. Another thing was she born a Doherty or did she marry a Doherty? You might check with a genealogy society in Philadelphia to find out where Cypress Hill was. There are various genweb sites that might help you in this regard. Just put in Pennsylvania Genweb in your search engine and select the county Philadelphia is in. They
