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thank you for all that you do for all of us. Your information shared in a few videos has already paid off for me for a few people in my family tree.
However, on a death certificate I have found that the information is only correct as the person filling it out which is usually the child and families didn't always talk to each other about information
Couldn’t find a death record for my 89 year old great aunt. Turns out she was still alive 😂
Oh, wow, Katie! That's crazy but good for you for finding her.
Hahaha doh!
You don't know what this comment does for my relief, a loved one of mine may still be alive!!!
A comment I'd like to add to this topic is based on my own research: as you research death records, like any other record you must check alternative spellings of the person's name. I am at a brick wall with two of my greats. One is named "Gore" (last name). I've seen it spelled Lore, Goree, Gor and Gos. The other great's first name is Margaret. For this one, I have to contend with the nickname "Maggie," as well as botched spellings like Margret, and Margarett for her first name. The records I need would be from the 1890 - 1920 time window in the US. Census takers often misspelled names. Phonetic spellings are the most common botches I'm finding. Another situation I've encountered in this search was that my ancestor (or the clerk filling out the form) often listed his first and middle names as initials: W. & P. - his wedding license listed his name as W P Gore (with no periods after the initials). In reviewing the marriage license further, I noted that WP didn't fill the form out - it was filled out by the clerk as the handwriting on the details is not the same as the handwriting of WP's signature. To address all of these alternative spellings, I'm going to make a spreadsheet with each spelling, vs the records I need to check.
That's a fact. Another thing to note is the ages of our ancestors in the United States censuses based on their birth year because their birth years vary according to record.
Yup and a problem for me is women’s name aren’t on many of the documents at all it’s just the mama name with Mrs. In front of it even in newspapers etc
13:02. Wow, me too! My great grandmother is listed as widowed in the 1900 Census, yet I found my great grandfather on the very same Census living with her brother-in-law. Then, in the 1905 NY Census, he reappears living with her and my grandfather.
I'm going to add to the list of similar stories. My 4th great-grandmother is listed on the 1900 Census as widowed; however, on the 1910 Census, my 4th great-grandfather appears as head of the household, and there are two more children born, one of whom is my 3rd great-grandmother.
I love your classes! Go Krista. Keep them coming
The Pennsylvania Certificates of Death have been a huge help in my research! I've found mother's maiden names on many of my ancestral relatives. And the information about where they are buried has been very helpful. I have found it very difficult to research obituaries or death notices in the newspaper archives so this video has been very helpful.
Thanks for this fine seminar on finding a death record. I've been at a "brick wall" with two of my great grandparents and the loss of the 1890 census has turned out to be a "deal breaker." I somehow missed that card-catalog feature in Ancestry and now have a new starting point!
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I somehow lost the password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.
My own problem is too many people with the same name. For tree sharing does ancestry assume someone in a tree is dead if the dob is over 100 or so, if not why not. It would seem odd if it assumed people in the 1700s or 1800s were still alive.
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for this great info.....very helpful !
Excellent info!
my problem is the small buttons you click on you don't go enough in detail about which button to use for what especially those of us that's not that computer savvy I'm a bit older than most pc users , would you do a tutorial on getting around which button to click for what thank you so much
This was an amazingly valuable and useful presentation! Thank you so much!
We're so happy to hear that you found our presentation valuable and useful, Joy! We know how much time and effort goes into researching your family history, so we're delighted to hear that this helped. Please feel free to reach out to us if you need any further assistance.
Great info...thank you!
I think the people handling cremations should make their records available. I've noticed that some people keep their cremated family member's ashes in their home. If they in turn pass, those may just be as good as "dust in the wind". I'm thinking of a friend, whose family I was researching. I had run into a brick wall locating his sister. He told me she had been cremated, and the ex-husband had not buried the ashes. Supposedly they are located in his home.
I couldn’t find anything about my great grandfather’s death. Eventually I ended up finding a passport application asking for permission to return to his village in Italy for one year. He did return to Italy and died only a few months later. I found the Italian death record once I thought to look there.
What a discovery that must have been to make, we're happy to hear that you were able to find these records and know his story. 🙂
We have a great article that has some great tips on ways to get past that brick wall in your research. You can access that here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Brick-Wall-Solutions
I was flabbergasted when I saw the Find-a-Grave homepage 😂😂 oh, how 7 years makes a difference. Now they’re at over 210 million memorials.
My brick wall has been my 3x-great-grandfather Thomas E. Dunn Sr. My Dunn family has stayed in Somerset County, Maryland for most of the people I’ve been able to find. Thomas was alive on the 1900 Census (in Fairmount, MD) & his wife Nekoda (her name has, at last count, about 10 different variations on records) is listed as a widow living with one of their sons, Thomas Jr., in Linkwood, MD on the 1910 Census; a year later she’s in Sussex Co. Delaware, dies, & is buried in Seaford, DE. Her headstone inscription lists her as the daughter of her parents & the “Wife of the late Thomas E. Dunn, all of Somerset Co., MD”. I’ve looked for a death index card on Maryland State Archives’ website, with no luck. I’ve done most of what’s suggested in this video, but I’m always willing to do it again to make sure & try new ways. I hope to find him one day; I’d love to visit his grave, but I’d also like to know who his parents were so I can continue researching my Dunn line backwards.
Hi, Tammy. You can learn more about the card catalog here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog?language=en_US
We hope this helps!
Thank you for the information!
We're glad you enjoyed the video and hope you picked up some helpful tips that you can apply to your own family history research, DeAnna! 😊
My state is really good about proving death cert online. I have had no problem finding them aside for one. My great great grandmother. I did find an obit online from the newspaper online from 1917. I know exact time and place of death but have not been able to find death cert or any burial info.
How about when you can't find a birth record? The delayed birth record service seems not to have the information I am looking for.
I found, and obtained, the death certificate from the funeral home. There is a mistake on this document. Not getting very far with this problem.
Can you tell me if delayed birth certificates were issued as late as the year the person applied for a Social Security number?
The probate idea is good, I'm glad to know it's at the level of county jurisdiction. Now I know where to call/search when it's not online.
The best so far.
Great video thx
oh wow, card catalog may solve a few of my dead ends and questions
This was a big help thank you
That's great to hear, Roxxi! We are happy that you found this video useful.
I currently have a problem finding a death certificate for my 3rd great grandfather, José del Carmen Adames y Cardona. I've been searching for months to find it. His son Francisco Adames y Adames was born in 1898 so that was definitely after the Civil Registrations began. I kept looking at the card catalog typing anything from very specific information about him to very general and even started checking the adjacent counties for anything and i couldn't find his death certificate. He was not mentioned in the 1910 census along with his wife she, so he was deceased by that time, it even listed her as widowed. I could use some help locating this record. Thank you
-Kai
You say he is not on the 1910 census. Have you found him on the 1900 census? Where is he living at the time?
Ancestry I don't think that would work. They lived in San Sebastían, Puerto Rico. There was no 1900 census at least not for the civilians of the island anyway.
Sorry. You didn't mention that it was Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Civil Registration can be searched directly here: search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9100
So how can i get in contact with Christina Hodge?
Heres the issue I'm having I found out my dad who I never met but he raised all of my sisters & brother passed in 1990.
Some of these websites will take your money and provide basic information I already had.
I specifically want information on whether he was cremated or buried and also a picture atleast because my mom had pics many many years when I was very young but no where on line can I even find a pic of what he looks like.
I have been looking for this info for over 20yrs and still no pic or information on where or how he died and whether buried or cremated.
This is like a dagger to the heart because my two older daughters want to know what their grandpa looked like atleast.
Thanks for this info. I do use the Card Catalog, but find that the search engine driving it is not very robust. You have to put in exact search terms that precisely match the titles of any available databases. In your example of searching “mortality”, for instance, you would first need to know that databases called “mortality” even exist. If you entered “death” as a search term, those probably will not show up in results.
It's a fair point. I use the FILTERS on the left side much more often. Filtering down to DEATH as a category would catch the mortality schedules.
Have you learned how to use wildcards? I’m just learning this feature. Still on the hunt for my great great grandfather. No obituaries, no death records that I can find, cannot find on any type of cemetery search.
City directories will also cite whether an individual is widowed, and their occupation. Often other family members are listed with or next to each other
Sometimes, yes.
Here is a tough one. Can't find any info on where my grandmother's only brother died. Unfortunately because of the spelling and pronunciation of their Italian surname we can't even find a census record for him. It is a particularly rare name and isn't pronounced the way it is spelled. All we have on him is his passenger manifest which has him arriving in 1909 and heading to Colorado and his tombstone which is also in Colorado and gives a date of 1965. But he apparently settled in Pennsylvania where my grandmother also settled and died there but is buried in Colorado in a double plot with his mother who died in 1963. Is is believed that he had family of his own. The surname is mispelled on the tombstone and also in the mother's obituary although a different misspelling.. The living relatives in Colorado at the time were nieces and nephews, children of my greatgrandmother's sister who did not share the surname and apparently didn't know how to spell it. These relatives were listed by name in his mother's obituary, so I'm speculating that they handled the arrangements, none of them are living to ask. I was fortunate that I found the daughter of one of the cousins who is still living there and who knew the mother when she was a child. She photographed the tombstone for me. I wrote to the cemetery for information but never got a response. There do not seem to be any death records for Colorado on Ancestry and I do not know what their privacy laws are.
A great hint that I use is an * and it can come up with some options.
What is meant by the word "relict", which I have often seen written on grave stones? I did look it up, but still not sure.
Relict is an old fashioned word for widow.
Cant find my grandfathers brothers death record anywhere. I have enough info that i should be able to find it but i cant.
I am having such a hard time finding my 2nd great grandma Ida Mabry (Chaplin) family, her mother and father in Mississippi. There's a Mabry family living on a page back from her on the 1920 census, on the 1940 census she's living right next door to one of the Mabry's children from the 1920 census. I contacted the family and they aren't really sure. You see, Ida was born in 1884 and married at 16 so in 1900 she was living with her husband family. No Mabry's close but a family waaaaaay on page 3 of 1900 and she's on page 34, she doesn't really look like them oppose to the 1920/1940 census mabry
+Calen Meeks Sounds like you are on to something with the paper trail you have uncovered. The Mabry family from the 1920 census - are they old enough to be her parents or does it look like it could be a brother? If they could be parents, trace them through 1930, 1940, etc until you can find a death record. Do they mention her in an obituary by her married name as a surviving daughter? Did she serve as the informant on either of their death certificates? Do any of their other children list her as a surviving sister in their obituaries?
Have you taken an AncestryDNA test? If so, invite one of those of the Mabry family that you have identified to do so as well. If you are related as 3rd cousins or 4th cousins, they very likely will share some DNA with you and come up on your match list. (Crista)
+Ancestry 1920 census Ida was living near the head of the Mabry home Silas (1860-1941) and wife Lula Mabry (1864-1935), they are old enough to be Ida's mother and father. Ida Mabry 1884-after 1940. The Mabry descendants I contacted are not sure if Ida's a child of Silas and Lula but know that they had 21 children. I have asked for obituaries of Ida's possible siblings but I haven't gotten any yet. They gave me photos of Silas and Lula's daughters and their is a strong resemblance between them and Ida. On the 1940 census is Silas and Lula Mabry son Roosevelt was living next door to Ida and her new husband. I have been looking at my other family census records and noticed family normally lived close to each other.
I have taken the AncestryDNA test , my DNA sample has been in the lab for 12 days processing. Maybe this weekend I will receive my results. I am unsure if that Mabry family has taken the test but I will ask immediately.
I like death certificates. Puting it with a bit of grim humor it describes when your ancestor became history.
Another source I've found helpful are Town Historians.
Card catalog is difficult because I would have never thought to search mortality. I would have searched death cert or coroner or death notice not mortality
Why does Ancestry show names of parents - not the deceased - in the index?
How can I list a person on my tree as deceased since I have no birthdate nor date of death and neither is was in the US.
Look into the person's job description. The town that person was living in and that occupation may have the person's work history. That might contain some useful information. My grandfather worked in oil.
I've spent 18 years, in GB , trying to find my Aunts Death record, plus the paid help of 3 Professional Genealogists, all to no avail. Not only was she officially listed under three variations of her first name, worst of all, I can't find out, if she ever married. SO---the options are very wide indeed. Add---that she was someone, who was born in Nov 1907--but registered in Jan 1908. Apparently, any promissing records ,can apply the earlier OR later year of Birth. Just to confuse things more. The last official record copy, has just been released --1921 Census. She is listed as a 13 yrs old, ''Button Sower'' in her city of Birth, Liverpool UK. If only there was some way, of illiminating the change of name through marriage, just looking for her birth name , even with it's 4 variant spellings, might help.
I am trying to find a death record for someone living in an Almhouse when they possibly passed away. I have tried to find death records and records from that particular Almshouse. I have checked Find A Grave and not had any luck. Any ideas to help me move forward?
We will be happy to help share some good resources for researching. We have a great article that has some great tips on ways to get past that brick wall in your research. You can access that here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Overcoming-Roadblocks-in-Your-Research?language=en_US
@@AncestryUS Thank you! She is in the Almshouse on the 1900 Census. But after that she disappears. I have been going in circles. I really appreciate the help.😊
Is there a video on the “ card catalog” ? How about Missouri death certificate of death records? How soon were birth certificate made ? My mother was born at home , my day was 8 years older than her so I am assuming he was too
Hi Tammy - Yes. You can find the video about the Ancestry Card Catalog at this link: ruclips.net/video/QrPPsKonFiA/видео.html
I am trying to find a Death Certificate for my deceased sister's stillborn infant and have not found it on Ancestry yet. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Death certificates are not always issued for stillborn infants. The best thing to do would be to contact the vital records office in the county where your sister gave birth.
Are there any records on the country of Poland included in any of the records in card catalog. I have tried several times and come up with nothing.
Hi Jean - If you go into the Ancestry Card Catalog and type in Poland and hit enter, you will see that Ancestry has 71 databases with more than 25 million records for Poland.
@@CristaCowan Thank you. I have tried this with no luck. Guess that means keep searching. LOL
My great grandfather Frank Krecman was married 18 Jan 1952 . Lived in Bryson City, NC and is buried in Dehart cemetery in NC. But can't find death certificate. Died 16 May 1952. Any ideas
Hi KPtiger, thanks for stopping by. Have you tried using the Card Catalog? This tool can help you narrow your search down by location, time period, and record collections. You can learn more about the Card Catalog here, support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog?language=en_US
looking for great grandfather in The UK and don't have any info about birth or death so have no luck finding out any thing about him ! My grandfather his son move to Canada in the early 1900's but not any help with find him in his father's house as I believe he went by Ted but really name was John I am going to search use some of your tips ,hope I can get some more info about him ! Thanks for the video >
You are very welcome. Let me know how your search goes.
A great great grandfather’s obit says that as he was getting ready for church, he called for his son (whom he was living with) and then “fell over dead”. Nothing else. Just a quick death notice.
It’s also wild just how hard it is to find anyone about him. He outlived 3 wives and 2 of 7 children. He passed in 1895. We cannot find where he’s buried, even though he bought 8 plots in the cemetery that his 3rd wife is buried in (they lost most of the info to a fire). The funeral/furniture company is no more and the funeral home that bought it out only has their archive back to about 1920/1930. I only found his parents names because we found a mention of where he and his 3rd wife got married and the marriage license was at the courthouse in that town. Whoever wrote his mom’s maiden name, their handwriting is atrocious, but I had someone eventually get a hold of me and had the maiden name.
We have a long lost mother that I guess died 2005 , but cant find out where or why , not sure what last name she went by, She was married a few times ,!!!! sigh ....
Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Crystal. We understand it can be frustrating to hit a brick wall when looking for a specific record. Sometimes Obituaries can be really helpful in pinpointing a location and date. They can be particularly helpful as they'll often mention family members and loved ones. We'll pop some information below that we hope can assist you a little. Thanks so much for watching!
Link: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Finding-Obituary-Records
You are good, I have been searching my ancestry for 5-years, you never mention that you can not find people of color in North Carolina Census before 1870. How do I find them?
Here are a couple of videos you might find helpful:
ruclips.net/video/EtN_f0jcwFM/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/jjrNuk9dY7Q/видео.html
I’m having issues with finding the parents of my 3ed Great grandfather James H Joy. I tried looking for his death record yet no luck
Need a bit more info...birthplace,son’s name, wife’s name might be a big help
I am assisting someone on Ancestry. She is trying to find out the cause of death of her grandfather. He died in September 1969 in Galveston Texas. I have gotten pretty good about my way around ancestry, and this one is a wall that I cannot understand.
It’s got the Social Security application. It there is an application for the cemetery headstone from the daughter. From what I understand the daughter was a estranged from her father. And she had to come home from the Navy to identify his body. It is not listed on the County death index, but it is on the state death index. They also is a find a grave record.
She would like more information about her grandfather. I looked up on Google and it says that you cannot go in and apply for a death certificate that is older than 25 years. Any advice anybody can give me would be nice!
Hi there, Sandra! Thanks so much for stopping by with this question. We're glad to help! We have a guide in our support center with more information on searching for death records linked below. If you have additional questions feel free to reach out again and we'll be happy to help!
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Searching-for-death-records
Besides Find A Grave, there is BillionGraves that does the same thing. They may have done different cemeteries.
I know of one headstone that lists all the children's name.
Obituaries often are posted on line especially since 2000. Sometimes, an obituary on one person may give a death date or year not just that a family member died. Obituaries for every family member may help.
Ie a sibling surviving on one may then on the next show as deseased so you can narrow the date.
In some countries you will never find death records. The church only recorded the burials because it was when they were paid. Note, that is why you dont usually find birth records but just christening records in certain time periods and places.
Thanks. I will try Billion Graves, as I was unaware that they existed
I am searching for death records of my grandfather Lawrence Lester Kuhnhausen (born 1906). I have searched in all the typical places and I am not sure what to do next. After my grandparents divorced when my dad was a tiny child his dad, my grandfather, disappeared. I know he remarried, but that is as far as I can trace. Any assistance would be appreciated. Closure is needed. Thank you.
Where was he living when your grandparents divorced? What year was that? Have you tried searching for him in City Directories? You can find that database here: search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2469 (Crista)
Hello, He was living in the Portland area when they divorced from my understanding. I have searched in directories and he sort of falls off the map after his second marriage. Robynn
He married Kathleen Wright in King County, Washington on 15 Dec 1950 (this looks like his 3rd marriage). In 1953, he was living in Seattle according to this city directory: ancstry.me/29Q91uh
According to a 1964 obituary on Newspapers.com for his brother, Irvin, he was still living. You might want to use that obituary to trace the other siblings. Do their obituaries also list him as surviving or predeceased? Do any of them list where he is living? That would help you narrow down a time and place to look for his death record.
Great information, thank you. I do not know if the other obituaries list him as living or predeseased or list where he was living. I'll have to check. Thank you kindly for your excellent help. I am new to this, but really enoying the search. If you run across any new information please share. Thanks!
I do love Ancestry. I have hot a brick wall for many of my ancestors. One frustration is Hanna Mahalah Lewis, North Carolina. I have not found anything about her death. Her husband, Capt Gideon Lewis, buried in the Lewis Cemetery in NC, has a nice tombstone, but where is Hannah?
Hi Patty - When did Hannah live? Have you located her in all available census records? Have you identified all of her children? Have you located a probate record for her husband? Does it list her as an inheritor or did she die before him?
I had a situation like that, only to find out she went to live with one of her children in another state after her husband died.
She was born abt 1797, and died aft 1860, the last census I could find her in. She was a widow living with her daughter. I haven’t found any probate records. Thanks! My search continues…
I tried that but my person is from England hard to find death record
i to am having so much trouble have a lady b. 1922 ILL. or calif. d. 1988 in Phoenix, Az cant find amything about it no way, tried obits news papers i just don't know
You need to be a member of some website to get all these records!!!
aidan giordano yea most of them seem to charge. It would be okay but some of them don’t show enough info before you buy the record. I ended up buying a lot of records that weren’t relevant to me.
Not website. If you want complete records, go to the LDS and view the microfiche/film with marriage records. Most of these sites are sadly, incomplete.
Tallulahgirl57 that would work for some but a lot of us aren’t even on the same country. Next plane ride maybe!
I’m in England and I’ve come to a total block on trying to find a death listing for a relative who died in 2008, on Ancestry. Why could that be?
Because Ancestry only has the England Civil Registration Death Index through 2007 available on the site. You might want to check with the General Registrar Office in England.
@@CristaCowan thank you very much
a child's death record. i have the owner of a plot, a descendant buried with the deceased who was a child of 12 but no indication to whom the child was related. All other names are accounted for but I have been unable to determine relationship after having local library check obituary; cemetery records have been examined; no record with county where the child is buried; no record of funeral home; genealogical society has no records. Stumped. Thoughts? Thanks.
+David Gray Sorry, I'm a little confused. Do you have a death record for this child or a burial record for this child?
No I do not have a death certificate. I have the cemetery internment record for that plot. All persons(4) buried together are relatives but a boy of 12 years, his relationship is undetermined. The boy however shares my surname - GRAY.
My grandfather's name was Robert J. Gray (1896-1963).; his father was ROBERT J. GRAY (1855-1923). my grandfather's sister is buried in this same plot as a 16 yr old.(verified with docs). The child in question is Robert Gray 12 yrs old, died August 1897. I know of no other Gray family other than my own.
I know my great-grandfather (RJGRAY 1855-1923) had a brother I have been unable to locate him. So my quest is to find out who this child belongs to as it is unlikely the Gray family would have two sons with the same name one living in 1896 and the other dying at 12 ysr old in 1897. ???
I hope this clarifies my original inquiry.
David
I cant find the birth or death of my great great grandfather. Yet his name is on a marriage certificate for my great grandfather. Not the same surname. No marriage records, so i must assume he never married. He was a farmer. They lived in lancashire. Can find him on any census either.
I have a death date and info from Find A Grave, but can't find a death certificate. Logan county, Kentucky, 1905. Nothing on ancestry. Any suggestions?
It appears that Logan County does not have any death records for 1905 in the database on Ancestry. You should contact the county directly and see if there was some record loss of some type or if they just aren't available online for some reason.
An additional source is military records if he or spouse was in military...grave marker and pension info.
What if the death is unknown? If someone ran away how do i find it?
Hi, Stephanie. Thanks for getting in touch. We're sorry that you're not finding the information that you're looking for. Are you saying that the person you're looking for ran away from home? If so, do you know where they ended up? We have an article that we hope you'll find helpful.
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Searching-for-death-records?language=en_US
I need your help.
I’ve looked everywhere. Nothing.
Name change? Did you find their married name?
Is there a way to find a death record if its unknown?
Hi there, Stephanie! Thanks so much for stopping by with this question. To find a death record you do need some of the information, however, as knowing the exact date is not always the case, you are able to use other details to search. If you know where the individual lived, you can look through census records to get an idea of when their death occurred, or you can check the obituaries or memorials for family members. We have some great articles in our support center that may be helpful and we've included links below. If you have any questions please reach out to us again and we'll be glad to help!
Finding Records: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Getting-Started-Lesson-3-Finding-Records
Free Research Guides: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Free-Research-Guides
Refining Your Searches: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Refining-Your-Search-to-Improve-Results
Wow, and I can't find my Great Grandparents graves, they died in the 1950's in Northern Ireland
Trying to trace Irish roots is next to impossible!!
I am looking for a death certificate not sure where she died i know it was after 1960 . last know location is virginia
I look in iowa also were she was born cant even find burial eaither
What if you don't know the name of a relative? I can't find a birth certificate for my grandfather and so I can't find out who his parents were.
Hi Melonie - When and where did your grandfather live?
Georgia
Please consider for females. Maiden last name AND seperate input line for married name.
This idea of providing a place on the profile for a given name, maiden surname, and married surname. It would really help with the mexico records. In Mexico for a woman, usually it is the husband's surname followed by the woman's maiden surname. In the US it's the mother's maiden name and then followed by the woman's spouse's surname. Very confusing....
separate
Sorry about the typos. I’m using the dictate to text and I did not correct it. And there’s no place to edit it.
I want to start using the city directories but I'm slightly intimidated. On the occasions that I have looked at them I'm always questioning if I'm really looking at the people that I think I am looking for because the directory it always looks like I'm looking at a business or an advertisement so then I become doubtful.
Leah, We invite you to visit our videos on City Directories here so you can learn how to improve your searches within these collections: ruclips.net/video/YFsbwJ3PozI/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/8I5wDy_y4M4/видео.html. Some of the fun of these collections are seeing the older advertisements for businesses our ancestors may have frequented.
Unfortunately records are only useful if the information they give is accurate. My great grandmother's death certificate shows her second husband as her father....and her mothers name is misspelled. This misinformation was given by a grandson....or misinterpreted by the individual recording the death. . With a great great grandfather, who had a number of children, only one daughter seems to have the correct information about the place of birth of her parents, as has been entered on this daughter's birth certificate.
That's a great call out, Patrica! While the date and the cause of death will generally be accurate, other information in a death record will only be as accurate as what's provided when recording the death. It's always good to try to corroborate information found in death records with other documents, like birth or marriage records or census returns. Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a great day!
I am having trouble my family’s born in Italy I cannot speak it
Took me 30yrs to find my father found that he passed in 1983...nothing ancestors....and when I did find coroner had name wrong date of birth wrong even his tombstone was wrong...social security didn't even know he had passed...
I can only find that they both died in 1891. Not died. Just disappeared. I’ve found that on several documents that he is changing between two names. Then he’s gone. I’m so confused and I’m a very good researcher. Tried all sorts of search engines and nothing
I can’t find anything at all. Nothing after that.
If you can’t find a death record, your relative was probably living in Fermanagh, Ireland.
Why are the fathers name only on the birth records/Mexico?
Hi Elvira. Please accept our apologies for the delayed response during these busy few days. We understand that it can be a challenge to work out specific customs and terminology especially if you're not fluent in Spanish for example. Rest assured that we offer extensive international record collections and resources that should help you make swift progress in your project. Here is a link to our current Mexican record collections www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?location=3255 but you can filter and sort this catalog by location as well as record genre. As we mentioned, It can sometimes be tough to get to know historical genealogical terminology so we would also recommend taking a peek at this guide to gain a better understanding of some of the Spanish language terms used and peculiarities of certain collections: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Researching-Spanish-Language-Records.
We hope this helps but please call on us anytime you need a little support. We hope you make swift progress towards achieving your goals! 🌳
@@AncestryUS Hi
My brick wall is most likely because the birth records I’m looking for has the fathers name only and not the mother name on the birth record.
I’m looking for the woman in my family.
for the record....tombstones are NOT 100% accurate. They are only as good as the person giving the date. My mom has a great whoever that was a year off on the death date. We went to the gravesite and Mom was like...no...she died the year before I was born. I remember mom talking about it. So, we went back to the library and looked up the obituary. She was right, the death date on the headstone is not accurate.
Hi, thank you for the tip. It is important to always double check your findings to make sure the information is correct.
@@AncestryUS We printed the Obituary and wrote an explanation about the headstone, put it all in a ziplock bag and put a brick on it AT the headstone, so that hopefully a close family member will have it corrected.
No luck finding death info on my 3rd gr8 grfather in Pike , Illinois . Ancestry has crap for cemetery records on Brown . Just a generic search for Brown surname all cemeteries in Pike County Illinois no year listed I get 3 results . Not even for Pike County. Narrow it down with first name or year I get zip . I get better results walking in cemeteries. 200 dollars a year for crap
My twins death certificate seriously doesn't exist, the cemetery from what i can tell online has no record of him, we were too poor to afford a headstone so they said they would keep his name over the grave, they lied, hes in an unmarked grave in a cemetery. we couldn't even afford a coffin, so hes in a box. There is no trace online that he has died and i want to know what exact date the hospital called time of death. He was innocent and used and abused for years that let to his death, he deserves a real coffin, a headstone and a record that he even has died online. Instead of just being completely forgotten to the point that no one bothered to even officially put down that he has died. Such bullshit.
I am sorry for your loss, Georgia. If you contact the county health department where he died, they should be able to provide you with a copy of his death certificate.
Cemeteries usually keep a map of the graves ( for practical purposes) even if they are unmarked and will have the name over the grave on the map. For older graves the burial transactions (fees and customer) are recorded and may be available providing date and position. There should be a death certificate to allow burial in a normal cemetery though I realise some institutions were a law unto themselves and buried on their own grounds.
Good leads
Thanks so much for watching!
Can't find a birth or death certificate for my mom or my sister. They have pretty unique names to not be able to find them 😩
Every state and country has their own privacy laws. If your mom and sister are still living, depending on where they were born, it is very likely that their records won't be online.
@@AncestryUS my mom died in 2014 in NYC and there's nothing online for her about a death
@@YahtzeeeeK - New York is not a public record state so they would not have an online record of her death. And, the federal government has only released Social Security Death Index Records through 2014 (and not all of 2014 death records are included).
I would suggest that you start a family tree on Ancestry (which is free to do) and then enter what you know about your mom and her parents and grandparents into that tree.
@@AncestryUS thank you so much for your help. I've started my family tree on there but can't really go further than my mom and grandma because of the missing information. Wow I did not know that New York did that. It's been very frustrating finding out anything to say the least
@@YahtzeeeeK - Was your grandma born before 1940? If so, you should be able to find her in the 1940 U.S. Federal Census (on Ancestry) listed with her family. That record will contain names, ages, birth places, and relationships for the people in the household.
If your grandma was not born before 1940, are there family members that you can talk to in order to find out more information about grandma's parents and siblings?
I belong to a family . I was adopted out . My adopted parents terminated parental rights after just 5 years. I found my biological family. Now there is no record of me being a relative accept one or two people and it's only saying survived by biological last name not my current last name
So I want to tell everyone there leaving me out
Unfortunately, despite attempts to correct Find A Grave, my grandmother is linked to my Great Grandmother’s ex husband’s last name. Ex husband is key word along with not having any DNA whatsoever, Find A Grave won’t make the corrections despite have an obituary sent to them.
Did you deal with FindAGrave directly? In order to change a listing, it has to be done by the "memorial owner" who originally posted the memorial. I have found these people to be very accomodating.
In Find a Grave website you can submit a request to change and or make corrections ect. It has always worked for me.
It sucks looking for records because African Americans were not recorded til the late 1800s; what can I do?
Thank you so much for stopping by, Jamison! We appreciate how frustrating this is and are committed to enabling Black family history discoveries at Ancestry. In order to help in this research, we offer a dedicated page for those actively researching their African American family history, which can be found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/african-american.
We've also made more than 12 million records of enslaved people available for free in perpetuity on Ancestry. You can find all of these records collected here to help you while searching: www.ancestry.com/search/categories/records_of_enslaved/.
We hope the above will be of help to you in your research, and wish you the very best of luck in your journey of discovery.
Beware! Informants can lie! When my great grandmother died her son was informant. He listed her as "widowed" when in fact she was divorced.
Also on the other side of the family, my grandpa's sister's headstone read that she was born within 4 months of her brother.(Mom said that she always did lie about her age).
Ancestry is great for American records..but the rest of the world..not so much
Hello Geri! We appreciate your interest in Ancestry and regret any concerns. We're happy to provide some insights. On Ancestry.com you can find records from many countries around the world, not only American records. For some countries we have vast collections. However, the available resources will vary across locations and time periods. The best way to see which collections are available for any specific search criteria is to use the Card Catalog tool, instructions here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog. We hope this is helpful!
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THE ONLY INFORMATION I GET IS THAT I HAVE TO BUY THE DEATH CERTIFICATE ! SPOKE TO AN ANCESTRY PERSON SHE TOLD ME NO WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY!
IS ALL FAKE, IF YOU REAL WANT TO FIND SOMEONE YOU NEED TO PAY FOR A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
Not really, I traced both sides of my family back to the 1400s.granted the Catholic Church book kept most of the records in Spain and Portugal from the 1400s to the early 1900s. Super easy to track back and the hard part is working backwords and confirming it again. Took me a solid 4 weeks of work. 450 people later along with 200 hours of work and my tree is 100% accurate. Glad I had tons of time because of covid haha
A private investigator wont have any access you don't. Its just a matter of doing the work and putting the time in, instead of paying somebody else to do the same thing. Its a work of decades for some people, its a hobby not just a quick look up. You can do a lot online and there's more going online all the time but you should be prepared to do some footwork of your own to visit record repositories, graves, etc. This is what most people do and you would pay heavily to get an investigator to do this for you. Of course, there are practical limitations if your tree stretches across countries and continents but there are also online forums where people in those countries might help you if you do as much research as you can and give them enough to go on.
Hi, Brenda. We have a great article that has some great tips on ways to get past that brick wall in your research. You can access that here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Brick-Wall-Solutions
One must be VERY CAREFUL using the City Directories on Ancestry.com. My father is listed on a city directory as having lived in a specific community 1993-2000, but he died in 1991. The city directories tend to give a range of years and sometimes where family members are listed overlap years. For example, one person may be listed as living in Portland, Oregon 1990-1995 and Seattle, Washington 1992-1997. Did they live in both cities for 5 years? Of course not, so one must look at other data to sort out the truth when using city directories.
I just learned that a schoolmate of mine died within the last three years. I know the county, and I think I know the city. How should I proceed to find the date of his death? I might add that this isn't the first place I have looked. I have already spent several hours on the phone and Internet and I'm not making much progress. I live in California, if that makes a difference. Oh, I don't want to spend too much money on this. I would think that this information should be available SOMEWHERE for no cost.I don't need a printed document. I would just like to see the record, on line, if possible.
Depending on where your friend died, a death certificate is probably not publicly available. There may have been an obituary posted by the family when he died. You can do basic internet searches using his name and death date to see if you can find one posted publicly. There are also several sites like Newspapers.com where publishers put up copies of their papers and allow you to search for obituaries they have published.
Ancestry,
Thank you. Nothing turned-up on my first try, but I'll keep trying. I am surprised, though, that every state doesn't have records of all deaths within their state.
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 - Every state does have records of the deaths within their states. However, every state has different laws governing the privacy and access of those records. Most states do not make current/recent death records available online due to those laws.