What death records are you missing?

Have you overlooked available death records to find out more about your ancestors? Or are you trying to determine someone's date and place of death? This video gives various sources of death information, many which are often overlooked in your genealogy research.

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[printname]

I haven’t had any luck with city directories. Most of my early ancestors lived on farms.

[patranye]

Kind of funny that this video topic came out on Halloween! Seriously though, some great advice and recommendations for where to look for hard to find death records. Thanks Aimee!

[marcidehm]

Definitely worth contacting the cemetery! I had one cemetery tell me that they believed my ancestor wasn't buried there although he had a headstone. There was no record of a plot for him only for the rest of the family. As he had died several years earlier this makes sense.
Had another be able to tell me that the person I thought (mistakenly) was an ancestor had actually been exhumed and moved to her family cemetery in another state. That confirmed for me she wasn't who I was looking for. But this exhumation is not listed on find a grave.

[suzannechalifoux]

Thank you so much! Your video and explanation comes at a right time for me and will surely try your suggestions!

[always.wondering.wandering]

For a long time I could not find the death of my great great grandfather and nobody else as well. Finally though, I found it, he was a Mason and it was recorded in the Mason record book. I have also been struggling to find my 3 times great grandfather who supposedly died in 1849 in Hopkins, Tx., hopefully one day I will. Thanks for the video today.

[b.c.]

My family member passed away in 1926. The cemetery is listed on her death certificate, and in her obituary along with the county, town and the undertaker. I’ve contacted every cemetery of the same name listed. Also across the county line and all surrounding cemeteries. I’ve talked to the genealogy societies, libraries, court house, and funeral homes. Family search and other online sites have nothing. I can’t find her. All of the elders have passed. I’d appreciate any input. I always thought my Great Grandfather was buried with her, but he didn’t pass until the late fourties’. The cemetery said there were no burials there until 1935 and she’s not there. I can’t find my Great Grandmother. She had a headstone, my parent went to her funeral. Family visited her gravesite over the years. I think it’s possible that someone, I talked to just didn’t actually check the records.

[BobTheSchipperke]

I have most of those (probate, newspapers before the marriage records I am short on. Sometimes I wish I could get paid to go do the scanning. ❤

[glennberry]

If the death was in an industrial accident, the state may have information in reports about that industry. I've found death information for an ancestor's sibling in a Colorado Mine Safety Commissioner's report that corrected what got printed in his Ohio home town's newspaper. There is a bit of difference between "falling down a mine" (newspaper) and "roof of mine fell on him" (safety commissioner).

[ErieCliff]

Don't forget to look for a news article if there was a murder or accident. The obituary might be in one section and the news piece in another. Be careful with gravestones for couples. Sometimes a widow remarries and ends up with two gravestones, one without a death date. Be sure to view the image of the stone in case the Find a Grave memorial provides details that blur the lack of a death date. And remember that Social Security Death Index provides the city where the last SS payment was received. SSSI does not provide POD. A few ideas.

[lindahill]

My parental grandmother, who married multiple times. I have looked through several cemeteties. One of my great aunts got a copy of her birth cert in the 1960s which is when i think she died. Looking for completed marriage records

[susiewheeler]

I know a friend who was scattered on a beach

[not_today_satan_]

I'd like a death certificate for my father in law. I know exactly where he's buried I emailed the cemetery that will not give me any information.

Just this week I was searching for my friends sister who had died as a infant. We did not know her name or date of birth or death. I did a search on ancestry using only the parents names and searching for a female. I was able to find a obitutary that listed her name parents names and dob and dod. I'd really like to find a death certificate. This was on ancestry in illinois 1948. She only lived a day