How to Find Death Records Find Obituaries Online (FREE)

Death records are important to find valuable information about people in your life. For example, you can find death records of family members to complete a genealogy project. Death records may be hard to find, but fortunately you can search online information for them. These records may contain birth location, last residence, date of birth and age among other details.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• death records
• obituaries

1. Collect some personal data before you try to find death records and obituaries. The state or the location where the person died, the burial location and the year of death are some of the essential details for a search. This information doesn't need to be exact, but you'll need some approximations.

2. Find death records and obituaries online using the Death Index.com database. This site is very handy for completing genealogy projects. This database is a directory of many online death record indexes. The online information is listed by state and it’s free. The following can be obtained online: death records, death notices, obituaries and cementery records.

3. Get death records online by visiting Death Records.com. This is a limited free access records database. Just write the name of the person and in seconds you can obtain the corresponding records. The site provides basic information on record searches. For detailed information it charges some fee.

4. Confirm the information you find on a person's death records by using different sources and comparing the findings. Use at least two sources to confirm the information found.

5. These are additional websites to find death records and obituaries online. Some will charge a fee for detailed death records information. For obituaries they are generally free of charge.
   
   **********Vital Records.com
   
   **********Obitcentral.com
   
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[sneedc]

on 3/1/2009 I am favoriting this to have as a reference if I need to pull some obits in the future. Thanks! 5*

[triciagoss]

on 2/28/2009 Very helpful. Thanks!