The medical examiners duties can help the genealogist with many unanswered questions. Although it can be a rather touchy subject for some, it is an important part of the chain that links life and death.
Every county has a medical examiner that can be contacted for a copy of a report.
This report holds a great deal of infomation on a persons life as well as death, and may lead to previously unknown medical conditions that are passed from generation to generation. The Tarrant County Texas Medical Examiner has been online for some time now, and can be accessed at the link i will give you at the bottom of this article. I have followed it carefully by using the obituarys in the fort worth newspapers. It is a very interesting site, and is as current as the hour is long. I would like to see more of the wonderful world of forensics online.