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Do you buy every death certificate that you

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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 22 Mar 2010 17:57

Find for your ancestors? I know I've asked a similar question about certs before but would be interested in what you do regarding death certificates.

MrDaff

MrDaff Report 22 Mar 2010 18:20

Hiya 007 1/2

I buy what I can afford.... birth and marriages always come first for me, and then when I start *padding out* the family, I get the death certificates..... I have all for up to my gt grandparents, and have started on the gt gt's... except 3, I got those earlier, as I needed to prove it was them that died, and not someone with a similar name!! If that makes sense?

So it really is on an ad hoc basis.

Love

Daff xxx

ps, Florence, I don't think 007 is suggesting for one moment that we HAVE to purchase them... just what are our reasons for doing so, and how do we prioritise...... lol!

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 22 Mar 2010 18:26

I haven't bought any certs at all lately ... there's one death certificate I do want to get hold of, to check cause of death and who the informant was (whether old weird Ernest Hill/Monck's father was still with his second wife at the time).

The others I've got were mostly in that same batch, to confirm identity so I know when to stop looking for them. ;) They did provide the useful info that a whole lot of the Hill clan (including Ernest's first wife and daughter) died of tuberculosis, which tied in with one of the tiny shreds of info Ernest had left behind, that he had a first family that was "wiped out by a plague".

Researching:
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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 22 Mar 2010 18:26

I tend to buy death certificates if my direct line died young, but not always if they died of 80 plus, as I have usually already got their burial from parish registers.
I haven't yet decided which George JONES in Southampton, occupation labourer, I wish to claim, so his death date has not been decided....or cert bought.

Gwyn

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 22 Mar 2010 18:30


I don't buy every death cert. but have found them useful. In fact have managed to find cousins from information on death certs (twice).
The last address can be a really useful way of finding more about them, as is the informant - which could even confirm a marriage of a duaghter, without sending for the marriage cert.

I also feel that finding the cause of death is part of building up a complete picture of our ancestors.

I had to get over though, the feeling that sending for death certs was morbid!

Researching:
Woodhouse and Trilloe from Herefordshire; Lockyear and Date from Somerset, Thomas and Edwards from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, also Argyll, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork