Finding out the date of death?

the_matrix

Hi

I have a persons date of birth and town. For free how can I:

• How do I find out the date of death?
• Can I also find out the city/town of death?

g6jns_2

the_matrix wrote: »

Hi

I have a persons date of birth and town. For free how can I:

• How do I find out the date of death?
• Can I also find out the city/town of death?

You are unlikely to be able to at all without more information unless the have a very unusual name. In any case you will have to buy a copy of the death certificate to be sure.

PasturesNew

Is this a newly deceased person, or donkeys' years ago?

If donkeys, then use the free search sites for genealogy until you have narrowed it down to a likely town. Then find out if the local town/county has detailed information online that's searchable.

If newly/recent ... it gets harder if there's no obit you can find in local newspapers that are digitised online - recent local papers aren't digitised as a rule .....

Without a bit more of a clue from you it's hard to suggest more.

getmore4less

There is no official link to births, deaths, kids, marriages(inc. divorces).


You have to connect them yourself(some easy, some hard).


Adoptions might have some better records but that introduces it's own issues.

dzug1

For free is difficult


If you were willing to pay it would be a lot easier, if not without its own problems

the_matrix

OK thank you.

Passed away around 2012. Is that considered recent or not?

RAS

That's recent.

Can I ask why free? A death certificate costs about £10.

If you have a large local family history library they may well have free access to Ancestry which I believe cover BMD indexes up to 2013.

Bear in mind that BMD indexes are organised by quarter March June Sept Dec so a death very late in September may be registered early in October and end up in the December quarter like one I checked recently.

What is pretty important is to list various conditions on the applications form. This death was not in the expected area, was indexed only by first name but was the best match age-wise in the 5 year period. Recent births also list the DOB on the index but this preceded that rule.

So I listed full birth name, date of birth, spouse, known addresses for previous years. If there was a mis-match, they would have phoned to check if I wanted the certificate.

TonyMMM

RAS wrote: »

That's recent.


If you have a large local family history library they may well have free access to Ancestry which I believe cover BMD indexes up to 2013.

Indexes on-line for England/Wales only go to 2007 - after that you need to visit one of a few main libraries that hold the latest lists.