Search Online Public Death Records
Dead men tell no tales, but Death Records can sure say a lot. They have come a long way since their humble beginning back at the turn of the 20th century. Today, Public Death Records form the set of Vital Public Records jointly with Birth, Divorce and Marriage Records. Public Records are much like reputation, you own it but you don’t really have a say in it.
The details surrounding the death such as time and place of death, burial and funeral information, personal particulars of the deceased and some degree of his spouse’s, children’s and parents’ are found in people’s Public Death Records. It’s also customary to put up an obituary alongside the death notices especially if the deceased was a distinguished figure in his lifetime and obituaries often show up as part of death records.
Although some of the information contained in Free Government Death Records may be private and confidential to some degree, Death Records are Public Records nevertheless. This means that generally anybody’s death records can be retrieved by any member of the public as long as the required procedures are followed.
Public Death Records are useful in locating out-of-touch friends or relatives, criminal investigation, researching a late person by the attached obituary and tracing family trees. Death Certificates are required for some official and legal undertakings and a good place to look is the deceased’s death records. Public Death Notices are also an invaluable resource for Genealogy and other historical studies.
Different states have different laws governing the access and use of Public Death Records. Furthermore, the death record databases of the various states are not linked. That means if it is not known which state precisely is the subject’s state of residence, a state by state search would have to be conducted in order for the search to be exhaustive. Having that said, records within each state however are uploaded onto a central state repository.
Besides the state office, Public Death Records can also be requested from other local government agencies tasked with the function. Death Records Search can be done through the mail, telephone, fax, in person or online over the internet. As with other public services, Online Death Records is the most popular mode of retrieval and has thus become increasingly available.
Although we can Find Death Records essentially free of charge from public offices, the setback is it usually requires queue and waiting period. The format of records among different agencies is also not standardized so they can be potluck in that sense. For more purposeful searches, people would be better-served with fee-based professional information providers which are abundantly found on all major search engines.
Ben Dave
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geneology question.. want to get started?
I have tons of names, dates, etc… but even when searching death public records online, I still have to pay (it’s like 3 bucks)… isn’t this information supposed to be FREE? Is there any other way except to shell out money?
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You should try familysearch.com, I am pretty sure it is free because it is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it is a very helpful and efficient web site.
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Yes, there are lots of ways to get this information for free, but it might be harder to search for. Try and stay away from pay sites, many of them promise lots and deliver little. Census records are mostly online, and can be a great source of information, they are usually organized by state of residence.
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Like you I am also very interested in Geneology. I started by asking my parents, grandparents, and great-grand parents about family names and where are history roots back to (countries). My grandma told me about this geneology museum. Do a little googling and find one close to you. Also try the library. Ask someone who works there to help you. I am sure you will be suprised on what you find. If you still live around the area that your ansestors lived try going there. They probly have documents on them. Good Luck! Geneology is very fun and I hope you find out a lot!
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The information might be free, but the "service" for finding it might not be. There are a couple of alternatives, though, but some take a little more work than others.
Ancestry.com is a site, with a forum base on it, that’s helpful for finding out family-line information, seeing as it’ll probably be family that’ll be answering you. Hehe. I’m not sure if its free, or not, as I’ve only used it once, and found what I was looking for in five minutes.
Zabasearch.com is another one. This one is more of a directory type search, but it does have a forum area that allows family to find one another through announcements and so on. Zabasearch actually shocked me a bit, as I was lurking through the announcement pages and found a family member looking for me. 🙂 It shocked me further that three of my semi-direct family members had moved into the same city as me, and were looking for me as well.
Libraries, if memory serves, do offer archives. At least, some of them do. This is more of a pain to look for people, as it’s more of a history report than anything. I apologize for not being able to provide any further information. Any further information will cost you three dollars. 😀 Just kidding.
Good luck!
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The Social Security Death Index can be searched online for free – you’ll find names, dates, and locations. http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
You might try your local public library’s online resources as well – these are usually free. My local library (in Pennsylvania) also offers free access from home to HeritageQuest using my library card number. HeritageQuest has census records, along with many other types.
While the information in public records is "public", there is usually a cost involved when a 3rd party (like Ancestry.com or HeritageQuest, etc.) makes it easily accessible to everyone. If you traveled to the actual court house where the records are kept, you would be able to look at them without a fee.
Good luck & happy hunting!
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