Questions tagged [death-records]
For questions about documents pertaining to a person's death, including death certificates, registers and indexes.
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Transcribing text on Death Record
I am interested with the second entry. I know the date is November 1st 1931. And I know he died in Murrayville, Victoria, Australia.
But I am trying to make out the rest. I know it mentions county.
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Scottish Mortality Register (Montrose 1787)
Before the introduction of the Statutory Registers there was no systematic record of deaths in Scotland. What there are are often financial in nature, recording the hire of the parish mort cloth or ...
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Aden Colony records for Native Yemenis
Where can I find birth, death, and marriage records, as well as the register of persons for Aden Colony for Native Yemenis? As far as I know, the people that I am researching are all Muslims by ...
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British India records for Native Indians and Pakistanis
Where can I find birth, death, and marriage records, as well as the register of persons for British India for Native Indians and Pakistanis? As far as I know, the people that I am researching are all ...
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I need help to read and understand the record
I was using the Findmypast genealogy website and found an interesting record that could possibly mention one of my ancestors.
The name of the person that I am researching is Ahmed Alla Khan.
I need ...
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Is there a logical explanation for a missing death certificate in 1962 in Pennsylvania?
Another question (What are the differences between PA state file numbers and certificate numbers?) reminded me of a family mystery: why can't any of us find a death certificate for Ferenc Borbiró?
We ...
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What are the differences between PA state file numbers and certificate numbers?
In my quest to find more about my family history, I have been forced to look beyond the internet. In particular I am looking for two people that died anytime from 1910 to 1920 in Pennsylvania (...
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I'm trying to find my father's birth & death certificate in Poland
My dad was born 1947 in Poland and died in 1997 in Poland. He migrated to the US and became a naturalized US citizen in the 1970s and also served on the polish army but I can't find the town. My ...
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Turkish Doctor death report for Neil MacNeill Campbell died 1895, Hasskeni, Turkiye
How would I obtain access to the death record of Neil MacNeil Campbell died 25 October 1895, physician presiding Dr. Kanas. Turkish law usually required parents name on doctor’s report. I have the ...
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Verifying a record of a death on board an emigrant ship?
My ancestor Johanna Foley Desmond immigrated from Ireland with her husband Timothy Desmond on board the Bark ARGYLE. The ship's registry just states "Died 20 May 1849" by her name on the ...
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Irish birth in Cork 1835
My 3x great grandfather was born in Mallow, Cork in 1835 and became a seaman. He apprenticed in Padstow, Cornwall until 1850 and then worked on ships mostly out of Liverpool where he had a family and ...
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Help needed to resolve two conflicting pieces of information
I have traced one of my ancestors to this particular individual, but the trail goes dead and other family trees have gone with, what i perceive as incorrect.
James Borland, married Janet Livingtone in ...
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Decipher Handwritten cause of death 25yr old male 1918
I cannot make out first word in cause of death right before “intestinal obstruction” also the contributor line. Can anyone read it?
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Seeking 1945 New Jersey Death Record
I am looking for the complete death record of John Kalashi (+ Oct 1945) who passed away in Atlantic City NJ.
According to Reclaim The Records, some years of the index are missing, including 1930-1948.
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Strange Probate record: Could this death record not be correct?
I have been trying to resolve an issue with death records for a Mary Ann Callen born 10 Aug 1870 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. She married Joseph Horatio Follett Sept. quarter of 1890 in ...
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