Death Records

Death records include such documents as death certificates, burial records and obituaries. There may also occasionally be court documents regarding a suspicious death. Older death records might give little more than a burial date and place. Later, when the recording of deaths was required by law, records often included very specific information, such as the deceased's birth date and place, his or her residence at time of death, the name and birthplace of parents, who the informant was, specifics of the cause of death, as well as the death and burial date and place.