death records
Official demise certificates
Death records are official documents that register a person's death, including date, location, cause, and identifying information.
Vital records offices, funeral homes, and genealogical archives maintain them.
The term appears in legal, medical, and family history contexts: She requested her grandfather's death records to complete the family tree.
Also called death certificates when referring to the official document issued to next of kin.
- vital statisticsPopulation movement records
- certificateFormal written attestation
- public recordsOfficially filed, publicly accessible documents
- county clerkLocal government records officer
- autopsyMedical examination after death
probate · last will · registry · social security · necrology · ancestry · family history · medical examiner · microfilm · coroner · epitaphs · archives · obituary · cold case · family tree · census data · paper trail · undertaker
- ancestry databasesfamily trees, DNA matches, census records, birth records, marriage records
- royal recordsroyal decrees, royal edicts, throne succession, royal lineage, birth records
- family historygenealogy, ancestry, ancestor, ancestors, descendant
- Family Mattersgenealogy, family tree, ancestry, family history, heirlooms
- family recordsbirth certificates, birth certificate, family trees, birth records, marriage license
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
death recordsproof of life
Evidence someone is alive
census records · voter registration · tax filings · wellness checks