How to find birth records of deceased relatives?

Posted by admin | June 29th, 2011

I’m searching for the parents of my great-grandmother for a family tree collaboration, but I can’t seem to find anything about her parents.. Granted I’m completely knew to genealogical research, so if someone could tell me a free method to find a deceased relatives parents it would be greatly appreciated.

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3 Responses to “How to find birth records of deceased relatives?”

  1. Ted Pack says:
    June 29, 2011 at 3:49 am

    https://www.familysearch.org/
    has some birth records. Death records will sometimes give parents’ names too.

    People ask "How can I find my family tree, for FREE?" 3 – 14 times a day here. You could browse the resolved questions.

  2. Shirley T says:
    June 29, 2011 at 3:49 am

    Ancestry.Com has some birth records. You didn’t say about when your great grandmother was born. Many states did not record births and deaths and issue certificates until the first quarter of the 20th century. Actually in Texas they started in 1903 but it wasn’t until after WW2 that a law was passed requiring the information be sent to the state and certificates issued. So before that time many people who were born or died at home never got recorded. You could be enrolled at school, get a job, join the military, apply for and receive a social security number without a birth certificate. However when the time came for those that didn’t have one to draw social security they had to get delayed certificates by going before a notary with someone who could give evidence of their birth.

    So it might be your great grandmother never had a birth certificate. If you feel she had one you could write the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the state she was born.

  3. Maxi says:
    June 29, 2011 at 3:49 am

    You don’t say where you are researching..ie which country….in the Uk there is freebmd index which helps from July 1837 onwards and many indexed burial records prior to this which are free ( as long as you target search)………you could check census returns each year and once the person is no longer in those it gives you a period of years about when they died, where they lived and o then you can search and see if the local church burial records have been transcribed…you could search using their name on sites such as findagrave which would show you when they were buried if they are on it and there are other transcribed/photographed free grave search websites as well…you could use familysearch ( as a clue) searching for death and name but dependin on where the information is from, you would need to check this back to records as much of the information on there is IGI, family trees and collections on CD so not real records( collections/donations/guesswork)and many are not correct.
    http://familytimeline.webs.com UK/Irish based so good links for those, however also has US, Canada, AU, NZ links, message boards, forums and free look up service links………………….

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