February 20th, 2010
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The SSDI
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
is the largest free data base of death records in the USA.
There are others. If you edit your question to include a county and decade, we can help you with specifics.
If Mary Ann Browne is on the SSDI, she is dead. if she is not on it, she may be dead or alive. Not everyone who dies makes it to the SSDI.
There are three towns named Newcastle in Pennsylvania, according to
http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi
so you’ll have to decide which one beofre you try the Advanced search in the SSDI. Try all the spellings of Maryann / Marianne / Mary Ann / Mary Anne, too. If she put a space between the Mary and the Ann, she might be there as just "Mary Browne".
Categories: Pennsylvania Death Record Tags: Ancestry Com, Ann Browne, Dead Alive, Dead Or Alive, death-records, Decade, Free Data Base, Marianne, Mary Browne, Maryann, Newcastle, Pennsylvania, Specifics, Spellings, Ssdi
I had a friend kill himself and I was wondering how much of the information regarding his death is public record, and where and how do I get a hold of the info that is avalible to the public.
Deaths and certificates and are matter of pubic record; much would depend on the pubic interest of the deceased, wherein a reporter might delve into as many specifics as they could to get a good story, or just the cause of death on the certificate itself as listed by the Corner’s office, which would typically indicate "Suicide" and what organ(s) that were damaged that initially or what there examination shows caused the death.
Whatever local entity houses death certificates would be the best start, but it would not be limited to that depending upon public interest.
Categories: Public Death Records Tags: Cause Of Death, Death Certificate, Death Certificates, Death Record, Deaths, Deceased, Houses, Pubic, Public Interest, Public Record, Specifics, Suicide
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