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Locating family death certificates can help you to trace
your family history back through each generation. The advantage of finding a death certificate are in the level of detail it provides. All this detail will go a long way if you are intending to start your family tree.
Using these details, you can find further information. For example, the age of the deceased can help you trace their birth certificate and, from there, other family members including the parents.
Searching and ordering a copy of a death certificate will cost a small fee. Therefore its best to start from the most recent information available and work backwards. A death certificate will usually be a springboard towards other, earlier family documentation.
Birth, marriage, and death (BMD) indexes are essential tools for English and Welsh family history research. They record crucial events in your ancestors' lives.
Most on-line collections cover BMD's for the period 1837-2009. To go back earlier than 1837, you will need to search parish records. Normally the search itself is free, you'll only need to pay to view original records and transcripts.
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