Typically, when doing genealogy research, people often head straight for records such as marriages and birth and just skip the death record. They just don’t know how much of a help a document of death can give to the living. Death records can actually bring light some significant information for the family of the decedent. One of the most vital information they can get from such record is the cause of death. Knowing the cause of death is really a great help for families to better understand health and diseases especially with today’s knowledge about genetic disorders. In the Sunshine State, Florida death records can be accessed from the Bureau of Vital Statistics which operates under the Department of Health.