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Finding Free Death Records Online

December 27th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Are you looking for information on finding free death records online? There are many different reasons why you might want to look for free death records. A very popular reason many people choose for doing this is to find out more about their family history. They may search to do a family tree or to track their genealogy.

Whatever the reasons you have for finding free death records online, it’s important to understand that this can be done quicker and easier than ever before. You can find important vital records such as the death history of someone or a family from the Internet. In the past, it wouldn’t have been so easy to track down these death records.

If you know where the person died, you could go to the local government in that state or records-keeping courthouse to public records on the person. This will typically be the most accurate method of finding death records and in the past, this was pretty much the only method. That is not true anymore today.

Now if you have a computer with an Internet connection, you can begin finding free death records of almost anyone to have ever died in the United States. Laws dictate that these records must be filed and kept in regards to deaths of people in this country. The records are also available to the public if you know how and where to look for them. Only in rare cases are the death records sealed by the courts, sometimes for the protection of the family.

The exact amount of information listed in the death record may vary depending on the state. There is also different information that you will find depending on which service you use to get the death record. Some databases will only give you a certain amount of information for free and then you will need to pay a fee of some sort to obtain the rest of the information in the report.

So what are some things you can find in this death record? Usually you will get the date of death, date of birth, obituary/death notice, cemetery location, records of spouses, records of other family members, cause of death, death certificate, funeral records, genealogy database and more. The best part is that you can often get all of this information for free online and in just a short amount of time. All you need to know is the name and state of the person you are looking for.

If you don’t know the state of death, you can always search nationwide but if multiple results come up, it might be more difficult to narrow down which ones are the right ones for you without having more information. The more info you have, the better but you can still do a search with no more than a name.

Internet databases are now becoming the most common method of searching for these types of public records. They are quick, easy and accurate and all can be found from your home computer with ease.

Rose Quadee
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  1. ashleyhyde@rocketmail.com
    December 27th, 2009 at 11:47 | #1

    how do I find FREE death records online?
    This little girl, Lizzie Shearon, died on my farm/property, and her tombstone is made of marble! I have literally SEEN her in my home, and she is only like 8 when she died. I want to know information about her for FREE. Her death date is July 7,1908. Her birth Date: September 11, 1909. Every site I go to makes me pay.

  2. Ted Pack
    December 27th, 2009 at 16:49 | #2

    Pleae add a town, COUNTY, state (nation, if necessary; "WA" can be Washington State or Western Australia.)

    Straighten out your typo, too. She couldn’t die before she was born. Did you switch birth and death dates, or did she die in 1918 instead of 1908?

    Given at least one mistake in your typing, please either check that her surname is "Shearon" or correct it. "Sheraton" is much more common.

    That doesn’t guarantee we can help, but it makes it easier.
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  3. Joyce B
    December 27th, 2009 at 16:51 | #3

    If she was born after 1900 and died before 1910, she might be hard to find, but we may be able to find her parents if we had a clue where the grave is.
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  4. wendy c
    December 27th, 2009 at 16:53 | #4

    Getting past the conflict in what you posted (your dates are impossible).. a child who dies at age 8 is not going to leave many records. The tombstone itself IS a record, and you already have it. She won’t have married, owned property, etc. An 8 yr old child won’t leave a will. If you are very very very lucky, you MIGHT find a death notice in the local paper. It is more likely that historical newspapers are going to be at your county library.
    What we COULD help with, are records relating to her parents or siblings, since they lived to leave a record of some kind. With luck.. the death is actually 1918, which would find her in the 1910 census. That works for the US.. but not the UK. 1910 there is not open for research. Unless they rented the property.. the parents will be in the deeds at your courthouse.
    Here’s the deal… you want it to be online and easy. That is exactly what makes is payable.. someone has done the thinking and the work to put it on the internet. SOMETIMES (random) it will be there by volunteers (but we don’t know a location). On the other hand.. by thinking about different places to find a record, it might turn out that you need to be looking OFFLINE.. and by you doing the legwork, you pay no one.
    Help us by posting details.. and you might have more luck.
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