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How can i be sure it's the right death cert??

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Madmeg

Madmeg Report 11 Sep 2009 18:25

Hi Martin

Unless you're either flush with money or desperate, I wouldn't order all four, but one at a time. Deaths are the most difficult to "prove" even with a cert.

How about trying to find a burial or cremation record - the local authority will have records of those buried/cremated at the municipal cemetery, or he might be buried in a churchyard. Some local authorities are very helpful indeed and often free of charge.

Margaret

KeithInFujairah

KeithInFujairah Report 11 Sep 2009 15:44

Martin, they may have copies of the parish registers on microfilm or fiche, but this will only show baptisms, church marriages and burials, the birth and death certs are held by the registry office only

Martin

Martin Report 11 Sep 2009 15:36

Guess this is just one of many bad things about common surnames, I've heard that some LDS centre's have fiche with actual certificates on them, can anyone tell me if this is true? this would be great and much cheaper if you can get copies of these for a small fee rather than gable with£7 for each cert.

Martin

BrianW

BrianW Report 11 Sep 2009 12:52

If you know their usual residential address you could use that as a checking point.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 11 Sep 2009 12:09

There is no way really, the only other factor is area. Even then it's a gamble as to who registered the death. Remember it might not be a relative who registered it.
The only other thing I can think of is to go down the electoral register route if you have an address, or at least a street, to see who your relative was living with, in case they were the person who registered the death. Even then you might end up with several certs and no answers!
Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

Martin

Martin Report 11 Sep 2009 11:37

Hi All,
Can the experts & "old timers" help me out here. How can i be sure i'm ordering the right death cert?? with birth/ marriage etc you can reference check with things like father name etc. With death certs how can you reference check?? it could be any relative that registered it? Say you have a john smith born 1900 and you find 2 deaths in 1950 age 50, 2 in 1951 age 51 etc how can i be sure which to order or do i order all 4 and hope to get lucky?

Thanks
Martin