Death Records
Discover how to find and understand death records as key sources for your genealogical research. Learn what information these documents contain and how they connect the generations in your family story.
Cremation Records and Tracing Your Family History
To those familiar with the idea of Vikings having funeral pyres for their dead, or the practice in India, it might come as a shock to learn that the first cr...
Death Certificates 1837 to Present Time: Family History Research
They say only two things in life are certain: death and taxes, and there are records of both. But to a genealogist, death is actually the least important par...
Genealogy and Pre-1538 Death Records
As with births and marriages, the problem with death records before 1538, when the Anglican Church decided all three should be recorded in the parish registe...
Genealogy Information From The Cemetery
Graveyards are very important to genealogy. The first public graveyards didn't open until 1827, and prior to this date they were either church graveyards (gr...
How To Proceed In Genealogy Without A Death Certificate
Like all other records, death certificates are prone to error from many sources, some of them human. Frustrating as that is in genealogy, though, the reasons...
New Zealand Death Records
As with births, New Zealand began the registration of European deaths in 1848, the collected records being kept by the Registrar General (as with other vital...
The Holocaust and Family Records
It’s accepted fact that millions of people were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust of World War Two. The vast majority were Jews, but there were also Gyp...
Using Probate Registries to Find Death Records for Genealogy
Wills are a wonderful tool for the genealogist. They can tell so much about the way a person lived, what he acquired, and his relationships with members of h...
What Gravestones Can Tell Us
At one time or another everyone’s walked through a graveyard. Most people, though, might not pay much attention to what’s written on the gravestones and...