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Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	31 Oct 2004 17:21
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Helen Deaths are hard unless you have an idea of when, especially once you get into the 20th century. If you can't find death refs on FreeBMD you may have to go through the GRO indexes, which can be rather tedious. Other ideas: parish burial registers, Wills, also there are sites for soldiers who died in the world wars. Sometimes (though this isn't terribly reliable) marriage certs state whether the bride or groom's father is dead. See if the men/women on the census are described as widowed. nell
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 912 Send Message	Angela	Report	31 Oct 2004 17:14
	Did any of them "disappear" between censuses? If they did, at least this gives you a 10-year time period to look for the date of death.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 623 Send Message	Tillot	Report	31 Oct 2004 11:17
	Thanks to you both for replying. I'll give the free bmd website a go. Thanks again!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 623 Send Message	Tillot	Report	31 Oct 2004 10:37
	Well I've just started out on the journey to find my family and admit to being hooked! I've found a lot of them on the 1901, 1891, 1871 census so I can see their approx DOBs but I don't know how to find out when they died? Sorry if I sound useless. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Helen