A document issued by a medical practitioner certifying the deceased state of a person or a document issued by a person such as a registrar of vital statistics that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death.
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When did Samuel Friedrich Walcker die?
I've been searching for this piece of information for quite a while, but so far, it has been fruitless. I've searched through familysearch.org at least half a dozen times. Here's what I have on him so ...
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How do I find death details for an individual where no current online record exists?
I am looking for the death details of a grandmother for a child in care. I have:
the first and married name of the deceased
the name of her surviving husband
the approximate year of death (2009 - ...
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Is a Birth/Marriage/Death Certificate a primary source?
Do I accept a Certified Document as a primary source and trust it outright or do I need to view the original the Document is transcribed from?
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Cost of BMD Certifcates in England and Wales
The cost of BMD certificates from the General Records Office (GRO) of England and Wales is quite expensive (£9.25 at time of writing) but what is preventing the obvious streamlining of this?
The GRO, ...
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Of a death certificate and a gravestone, which record should be trusted more in determining birth date?
I have an ancestor for whom I have very little information for. I am trying to identify the exact birth date for this person. I have a death certificate which lists the birth date as "May 1st", ...
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Why did my Uncle's Death Certificate Not Appear in the Family History Library's Archives?
In 1987, an uncle, one of my Dad's siblings, disappeared without leaving any word of his whereabouts. At the time, he lived in Denver, Colorado.
Fast forward to 1998, I left the military and took a ...
