Questions tagged [death-records]
For questions about documents pertaining to a person's death, including death certificates, registers and indexes.
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Identifying location and cause of death of person who died in 1992?
I have visited the grave site, obtained the headstone details but unable to progress from there.
Buried in Bundaberg Queensland
Death location unknown
Whereabouts between 1985 and 1992 unknown
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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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Finding 1863 birth of John Sellars and death of his father Robert (British subjects) around 1870 in Panama/Colombia?
This question is related to Finding New York City/State records relating to Sellars family (British subjects) births/deaths mid 19th century?.
I have a Scottish ancestor, Robert Sellars born 1830, ...
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Finding New York City/State records relating to Sellars family (British subjects) births/deaths mid 19th century?
On advice of @efgen I split this question into two - one for New York and one for Panama, but left the same detail for both thinking the fact that Robert Sellars was in both geographic areas might ...
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Reducing cost of BMD Certificates 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 ...
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